Fundraisers

[KenWittlief]

if you do something like a car wash or a baked goods sale, have your previous robots there to show them off

people will donate money even if they dont purchase whatever it is you are selling.

[charlie_grr]

I'm currently working on a raffle for our team. We're going to sell about 700/800 tickets at $5 each and they have TWO chances to win their choice of either an xbox, gamecube, ps2, OR a $100 gift certificate to any store of their choice. This is a very profitable fundraiser. I'm working on getting the prizes donated (mainly just the consoles) by some big business stores around here. And our schools graphic design class prints all the tickets for free. At most we're going to spend about 280 bucks if the two winners choose the xbox and they aren't donated. so in theory this is a great fundraiser but we'll just have to wait and see.

[Doug G]

I'd be careful with doing raffles in Cal. There are several DA's across the state (Riverside is one) that have filed criminal charges (Penal Code 320.5) against school districts involved with selling raffle tickets to help fundraise. To hold a "legal" raffle fundraiser in Cal. you must send in an application to do so by Sept. 1 before the year you hold the raffle. For exaple if you want to hold a raffle in March 2004, you must submit the application by Sept. 1, 2003. Then by Sept of the following year you must submit a follow-up form that states how much you made and that 90% of the raffle ticket sales went to the charity/non-profit group. Below are all the links you need from the Cal. Att Gen. Office. Last year we held a raffle and made over $4800 and this year someone warned us about the legality of it all. After I did my research, it was already past the Sept. and we cancelled this years raffle (luckily before we printed the tickets). Anyways take it for what its worth...

http://caag.state.ca.us/charities/statutes/pc320.pdf

http://www.caag.state.ca.us/charities/faq.htm

http://www.caag.state.ca.us/charitie...ffle/nrp_1.pdf

http://www.caag.state.ca.us/charitie...ffle/nrp_2.pdf