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Believe it or not, football season is soon upon us.  It feels like baseball season just started, doesn’t it?  Anyway, it is time for the early fundraisers for schools.  I just recently heard that one of our local schools is holding a football raffle to benefit the school.  Most fundraisers are just to benefit the team, so this one definitely stands out.

Basically, they built a box seat in the bleachers on the 50 yard line.  They are raffling off the opportunity to watch one of the games in the box seat, which also includes free refreshments from the concession stand.  What a great idea, huh?!  They are selling raffle tickets for $3 a piece or 5 tickets for $10.

Not only is this a great way to raise money for the school before the school year begins, but it is also a great way to fill seats at the football games.  This raffle will benefit them down the road when people are paying to get into the game just to get a look at the box seat and who is in it that week.  I love this idea, and I wanted to pass it on for you all to use!

I’ve come to realize that one of the hardest parts of fund raising by way of raffles is choosing the right prize to raffle off.  I know I’ve talked about this on here before, but I really think that picking the prize to raffle off is so essential to running a good raffle.  One of the best ways to pick a prize to find something that people really need.

One of those things the people really need and really like are household appliances.  Now what you may be thinking is that those things are really attainable and that someone could just go to Target and buy a toaster if they really need.  This is true, but its also true that people like the best of the best in home appliances.  They want the best because they have to live in that home everyday and so do their loved ones.  This is something that your raffle can offer them.

Places like Target do make charitable donations every day, so its not weird for you to meet with their fund raising manager and ask them to donate a Dyson vacuum or something similar to that.  Another good idea is to try to make a home appliance gift basket to raffle off.  This is a great prize to raffle off for a school fundraiser.

Stephenie Meyer is by far one of the most popular authors of this day and age.  I have yet to go some where and not see at least five different people carrying or reading one of her books. Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn, and The Host are probably the five most profitable books on in our country right now.  Probably beyond our country as well.  I believe that we have an incredible opportunity here.  It would be very wise to tap into this profitable resource when it comes to selling raffle tickets.

I recently got the opportunity to obtain some autographed Stephenie Meyer books and things.  I’m going around to my clients to see which one of them would like to use this to earn some money for their business.  The schools I work with are obviously very interested in using them.  I came up with the idea that they could hold a Twilight raffle at their school one night.  They could decorate their gym/auditorium with Twilight decorations, have the movie playing throughout the night, baked goods, etc.  With Halloween coming up, the idea of people coming wearing costumes got thrown into the mix as well.  The schools are very excited about this idea.

I looked up on Ebay how much a hardback set of her books autographed is going for, and its around $6,000.00!  This can greatly benefit the schools if they do a good job advertising their event.  I can’t wait to see it play out.  Let me know if any of you have any other ideas that could benefit this Twilight raffle night.

I’m always looking for creative ideas to use raffle tickets on a daily basis, so as to be able to sell more of them.  It can sometimes be hard to come up with creative things to sell them for or ways that you can use raffle tickets in every day situations.  However, I recently came up with an idea that I think would work well in any classroom.

My husband is a new teacher, and he’s been looking for ways to improve on his classroom management.  I suggested the following idea:  At beginning of the day give each student 3 raffle tickets for a bag of chips or a candy bar.  For each time the student behaves badly during the day, the teacher can take away one of the raffle tickets.  At the end of the day, the student’s put their names on the tickets and turn in all their raffle tickets to the teacher. The teacher then puts the tickets in a bowl and draws the name of the student who gets the free snack.  In this way, the teacher is able to give the students an incentive to behave better in class.

This would be a whole new avenue for the raffle ticket industry I believe.  Not that other people haven’t had the same idea before, I’m sure they have.  But I think the more we can push raffle tickets into practical usage in every day life, the more we’ll be able to sell them.  I love that raffle tickets could benefit the schools in another way than just fund raising.  What do you think?

Its the beginning of the school year and all the sports teams, school clubs, etc. are beginning to do their fundraising.  I found this to be so true when I went to help my husband who’s a teacher with some of his copies and what not, and I got approached by about 10 different middle school students pleading with me to buy something they were selling.  A lot of those students were actually selling raffle tickets for something.  They were raffling of a weekend vacation get-away, gifts cards to a local restaurant, and a sports pass for their school district.

I use to help out with the soccer team at our local high school and we tried fundraising with coupon books, but it didn’t work very well.  I think raffle tickets are such a great idea are able to sell easily when the object they are raffling is unique and somewhat practical.  I wish our team would have done that instead.

There’s a raffle going on right now in an organization that I’m involved in for a week’s vacation using a time share.  The only thing is that the vacation has to be taken in September so I don’t think my husband and I will be able to do it because of work.  Anyone know of any other good vacation raffles going on right now?