GS 9 raffle for Norcal HOW/NCKA PIF

Eric asked me to help coordionate and run the raffle at GS9 and I gladly accepted!!

I am super grateful to Eric and GS to the good times and community spirit, and $ raised for various causes, and feel very fortunate and honored that I have been able to attend for 5 years in a row!!

So here's some info on how the raffle will work:

I will bring a giant roll of tickets and will be selling tickets at the potluck (after the tourney and before the raffle and awards ceremony).

I'll be set up in a central location with some beverages and food so should be easy to find, and should have some helpers there with me as well.   

Eric will have some really cool prizes including a brand new Bending Branches paddle, B2Squid tackle, Redwood Coast Spreader bar tackle, Surf2Summit Seat and accessories, Kokatat gear and more!! 

Tickets will be $1 each. You buy a ticket, write your name on the half that goes in the raffle and put the other half in your pocket.

There will be buckets/jars next to each prize. Put your ticket(s) in the jar next to the prize you want.

We will pull the winning ticket from each bucket for each individual prize, call the winner and give them the prize.

At the very end we will announce how much total $ we raised.

Half the $ will go to Norcal HOW, and half to the NCKA PIF fund.

 
 
Thanks again to Eric for letting me help out with this, and if any of you have any questions please just let me know!!

 

Sincerely,

Jim

ps...for those not familiar with NCKA's PIF here is a description of what we have done since 2010 in regards to raising $ to help our fellow kayak anglers in need:

http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=61129.0

And what we have done so far in 2015:
http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=62892.0

The raffle was a HUGE success!!!

I totally underestimated how much work it would be, and overestimated my ablity to do it all alone.   

Luckily though, tons of awesome people just stepped up out of nowhere to help and make it all happpen and run totally smooth!!!

From selling tickets, guarding $, moving tables, setting up prizes, carrying prizes up to podium, getting bags ready to draw winners, counting out $$ and splitting it in half for PIF/HOW...

Peeople like Sarge, Scotty, Sara, Shannon, Luis, EWB, baitnbeer's son, Sara's son Quinn, and many more just jumped right in to help without me even really having to ask... 

The prizes were AWESOME, the format was great and I thought it all went super smooth...

At the end of the day we had raised over DOUBLE what we raised with the raffle at GS8 last year!!!

   

NorCal HOW took home $1,879, and PIF took home $1,879 as well!!!

$3,758 total!!!!!

 

Huge thanks again to Eric, GS, all the amazing prize donors and everybody who helped out!!

 

Sincerely,

Jim

Way to go Jim and team! 

You guys rock! 

 

Totally awesome on the A-Hulls in California. 
Why don't we have one of these funds up here?