Basketball fans love filing out their NCAA bracket and following the tournament. While you could win some money in your office pool, how would you like your picks to make a real difference?
Fans For Change is a non-profit organization founded to use the power of sport for good. Their inaugural contest is a pool manager for the 2011 NCAA Mens Basketball Tournament. It’s free to play and Fans For Change will donate $1000 to the favorite charity of the overall winner.
Signing up is easy:
- Go to fansforchange.org and log-in through Facebook or create an account
- Click "Join a Group" then "Join Public Group"
- Click a charity or name your own (any active 501c3)
- Fill out a bracket
Much easier than the days of photocopying a bracket from a newspaper so your office members could fill out in pen. Yes, I’m old enough that I once ran a pool where each entry was hand scored and then the results were stored in a miraculous new invention called Excel. I haven’t made my picks for this year yet, but I hear good things about this Bucknell University* team.
Once you log on you can use Charity Navigator to research and select a charity you determine is worthy. I’m going to select one of the many charities providing aid to victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
Jay Bavishi, one of the founders of Fans For Change is former student of mine from my teaching days. I am proud to say that I taught Jay in third and fourth grade and he has already done great things in the world of sports media. Jay has published a book, Ivies in Athens, chronicling the participation of Ivy League athletes in the Olympics.
I hope that you will join me in supporting Jay and Fans For Change in their exciting new endeavor.
*Author this article is a Bucknell graduate.
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