My small (12) quilt group has made raffle quilts for several years now, but for our specific annual charity project- cancer. We donate the proceeds to our LOCAL County Cancer Organization. All of the money in our local Org. stays in our county and is used to assist anyone in the county that needs help with gas money or motel costs when they go out of town for treatment - which they must do if they live in our county. Myself and one other in our group have had cancer and one quilters spouse - all 3 of us are cancer free or are in remission currently. Prayers are answered!!!
We have had very good results with our raffles and for the last few years the drawing and as been held at our local Rodeo in June on "Tough enough to wear Pink night". We usually sell a lot of tickets during the Rodeo time. We have our quilt for 2017 finished and are currently selling tickets -this quilt is a T-shirt quilt - tied, made with T-shirts of past years Rodeo T-shirts which were donated for making a quilt. Hopefully we will sell more tickets this year since we will have a much longer time to sell them. We didn't make a quilt for 2016, as we had planned to raffle this quilt, but did not get it completed in time.
We were able to contribute over $900.00 in 2015 after our cost of LA quilting and only had a couple of months to sell tickets. Most people in this county are extremely generous because they know specifically where the money is going
Last edited by Gerbie; 10-22-2016 at 05:06 AM.