Super Bowl, Super Raffle, Super Idea!

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The Byam Elementary and Parker Middle Schools of Chelmsford, Massachusetts teamed up with Target Sport Adventures to offer a popular and profitable fundraiser. Together the schools' parent-teacher organizations raffled off a pair of tickets to the hottest sports event this time of year - Super Bowl XLII.

Tickets for the big game are going for hundreds and even thousands of dollars. But just $50 bought a raffle ticket for this particular Super Bowl package that included air fare for two from Boston to Arizona, two Super Bowl XLII game tickets, three nights accommodations at a three-star hotel, and a few other small perks! If for some reason, the Patriots did not make it to the Super Bowl (ha!), the prize would be $15,000 cash!

Target Sport Adventures is a Boston based company that provides sports and entertainment event travel. They can help charity organizations that may not have the resources by putting together a premier event package.

The Byam School Association hosts a number of fundraisers throughout the year. They actually considered offering this type of event over a year ago and then when the Patriots showed such promise of making the Super Bowl, they put their plan into action. One of the things that appealed to us with this type of fundraiser was that it offered support from the local community as a whole and not just our school families,' said event coordinator and Byam School Association President Maura Shield.

The plan was to sell a maximum of 1,000 raffle tickets. If fewer than 400 raffle tickets were sold, all purchases would receive a full refund of their raffle ticket(s) purchased. In the end, the schools were able to sell 501 tickets for a profit of $7,400. Tickets were sold to school families and at The Java Room, a local coffee house where the winning ticket was pulled this past Thursday. A lucky Matt Sepe was chosen and plans to take his brother to this phenomenal event. Congratulations!

About the Author:
Vicki Blazejowski is the Editor and Publisher of PTO Ideas, the website were schools share profitable fundraising ideas and learn how to build a better parent-teacher organization. For more information, visit PTO Ideas at www.ptoideas.com.



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