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Monday, November 26, 2007

JewishJournal.com-Can nonprofits rake it in with raffles?

JewishJournal.com: "This December, some lucky soul out there will win a million-dollar home in West Hills, and Kadima Hebrew Academy will pocket $1 million to benefit the school.
Maybe.
Actually, probably not. The more likely scenario is that the grand prize winner of Kadima's first stab at a mega-raffle will take home a six-figure prize, and Kadima will net the same, depending on how many more of its 18,000 available tickets it sells.

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From Idealist.org

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/0,4621,307794,00.html

http://www.nonprofitmailers.org/tools/csr-307.htm

From the USPS