RAFFLE to Raise Funds for Books!!!

Hey guys! The Book/Postcard Panel has been hard at work trying to come up with ideas that will help us to get the most out of our money. Unfortunately, as it stands now we will all be paying for our books and postcards out of our own pockets, and no one wants to do that. So, to help cover the cost from our panel, we have come up with an idea to (hopefully) raise enough money to pay for everyone's book and potentially their postcards as well. Now, we need your help to get this idea in motion!

The idea is to conduct a raffle for a netbook and other prizes, with a potential profit of over $2000. For this to work, everyone will need to sell a book of 20 tickets at $5 per ticket. If all 29 of us do this, we will bring in $2900, which we will be able to purchase the prizes out of and still come away with the above mentioned profit. It may sound daunting at first, but think of all the friends, classmates, and family you have; you'll probably be able to sell the majority of your tickets to them. In addition, you are allowed to buy as many tickets as you'd like, which means you'll have the chance to win a prize (multiple ticket purchases not only increase your odds of winning something, but enable you to win multiple prizes!)

So, the plan. I will be printing up tickets this weekend, which will each consist of a numbered ticket and a correspondingly numbered stub. We give the ticket to the buyer, and keep the stub. Stubs will have an area for buyers to write in their name, phone number, and email address so that they can be contacted in the event they win something. Everyone will be able to get their tickets from me at any point next week, starting Monday March 8th. If you sign out a book of tickets, you are accepting responsibility for making sure that all of them are sold in time to be part of the drawing. This means that if you don't sell them, you'll have to buy them. That should motivate you to sell, sell, sell! We will have just over two weeks to sell tickets. Once all of the tickets are sold and the money is collected from each of you by the Book/Postcard Panel, the prizes will be purchased and the drawing will be conducted. If the winners are not present at the drawing, they will be contacted via phone and email to come and collect their prize(s).

Dates/Deadlines:

Beginning Monday, March 8th, books of tickets will be available to everyone who wants to participate (that better be everyone!)
March 8th-23rd, SELL TICKETS! This should be good timing because it will give everyone one week of school and one week off (Spring Break!) to focus on selling.
Tuesday, March 23rd by 10PM, ticket stubs and money (in the form of cash only - you can only accept checks from people you know, and they have to be cashed) must be delivered to me.
Wednesday, March 24th at noon, the drawing for prizes will be conducted in the Pollak courtyard. Anyone that wishes to be present is welcome to come - especially ticket buyers. Letting them know that a drawing is happening at a specified date/time/location should help them to feel comfortable with purchasing tickets from us.

I hope that everyone is as excited about this idea as I am! It would be wonderful if we didn't have to pay out of our personal funds to buy books and postcards. Please help everyone out by doing your part and selling tickets over the next couple of weeks. This will benefit everyone, and you might even win a prize in the process! If you have any questions, please contact me via email. Thanks!

-Marion Glass
braffordmm@vcu.edu

Almost forgot! You guys might want to know what the prizes are ... 1st prize will be an Acer Netbook, worth $300. 2nd prize will be an 8gb iPod touch, worth $195. 3rd prize will be a $100 gift card to Target. I'd buy a $5 ticket for that :P