Concord Monitor Online: "Nonprofits upping the ante with poker contests
Lawmakers may seek to regulate venture
By ERIC MOSKOWITZ
Monitor staff
September 23. 2004 8:02AM
When the trustees of the Belknap Mill Society decided to hold a poker tournament last spring, the idea raised a few eyebrows. Some at the nonprofit, which runs an art and history center and maintains a historic mill, saw a Texas Hold'em tournament as a departure from the mission. Certainly it was different from the society's traditional fundraiser, a used book sale.
But then, in a single evening of poker, the society took in twice what it can make with the four-day book sale. Goodbye, reservations. Hello, new fundraiser. "
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