Charity Raffle Wrap Up

Brother Raffle Chairman, in the old days, the deadline for selling tickets was the first weekend in May.  Now with computers and cell phones, the deadline can move closer to the convention and you can actually sell tickets up to the week before the convention.

Now is the time for multitasking, you need [1] to remind everyone for the need to reach your goal or the stretch goal.  [2] At the same time, prepare the tickets for the raffle.  The process:

1.     Use your raffle committee or volunteers to help prepare the ticket stubs.  Use this project to get members involved with a council activity. 

2.     Remove the staple/tab to separate the books of tickets.

3.     Make sure all the tickets have a name, 10 digit telephone number, and Seller Name

4.     Stamp or write your council number on the back of the ticket.  This validates the ticket for eligibility and is necessary to award the bonus if we reach the 10% growth in sales.

5.     In addition, you need to provide us with number of Century Blocks of tickets your council members sold and the names of the Knights that sold over $1,000 or more. See below. If you do not have any mark the form NA and include your Council number. Use forms on ‘yellow’ pager if you can find the originals.

If you or someone from your council is attending the State Convention and will bring the raffle material they need to know to:

1.     Deposit all personal check and cash with your Fin Sec and have the Treasurer cut a check for the total amount of tickets sold.  Please do not bring personal check or cash to the convention.  If this is a problem, contact me ASAP on my cell phone. [480.818.1774]

2.     Communicate with the Grand Knight, Delegate, or District Deputy to make sure they understand the process.  Every year someone brings only tickets without money or a check without tickets and/or not report.  We need all three, a report, stubs, and a council check.

3.     Keep all three items [Report, stubs and council check] together.  The DEADLINE to turn in tickets is SATURDAY AT NOON].

4.     Bring [1] State Raffle Report, [2] Century and $1K form, [3] ticket stubs and [4] Council Check to the convention

5.     Turn in the tickets Friday or Saturday morning before 12:00 noon.

Thanks everyone for your help with this very important Charity Raffle.  C U at the convention!

Richard Armanini

State Charity Raffle Director

3315 E Dry Creek Road

Phoenix, AZ  85044-7022

Telephone:  480.706.9314

Cell phone:  480.818.1774

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State Raffle Sales Report
Century and $1,000 Sales

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K of C Charity Raffle Update #5

A message from the State Raffle Director, Richard Armanini!  Any questions or comments should be sent to Richard at richard.armanini@gmail.com or telephone 480.818.1774.  Reply to this message, Delete Rick Garrison before sending.  PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR FULL NAME, COUNCIL NUMBER, POSITION, AND TELEPHONE NUMBER AT THE END OF THE MESSGE. 

 This message was sent to the Charity Raffle Team of State Officers, District Deputies, Grand Knights, Riffle Chairman, Financial Secretaries, Faithful Navigators, and Field Agents. 

April starts the last full month we have to sell raffle tickets.  This is our time for a reality check on where we are in raffle sales.  What percent of our goal have you sold?   If you are at your goal, set a stretch goal for the last month.  If not, you still have time to take positive action such as communicating with your members using your newsletter, e-mail, and church bulletin to tell them the percent of goal and to remind them to return sold tickets. 

State Officers, District Deputies, Field Agents, Council 1200 [Tucson] and I have tickets if you need more to finish your sales. 

God Bless you, your council, and the Charity Raffle!

Richard Armanini

State Charity Raffle Director

3315 E Dry Creek Road

Phoenix, AZ  85044-7022

Telephone:  480.706.9314

Cell phone:  480.818.1774

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K of C Charity Raffle Update #4

A message from the State Raffle Director, Richard Armanini!  Any questions or comments should be sent to Richard at richard.armanini@gmail.com or telephone 480.818.1774.  Reply to this message, Delete Rick Garrison before sending.  PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR FULL NAME, COUNCIL NUMBER, POSITION, AND TELEPHONE NUMBER AT THE END OF THE MESSGE. 

 This message was sent to the Charity Raffle Team of State Officers, District Deputies, Grand Knights, Riffle Chairman, Financial Secretaries, Faithful Navigators, and Field Agents. 

Four questions and answers about the Charity Raffle

Q1: Can the winner of a trip take cash instead of the trip?            Short Answer NO!

More information:

1. The total list of prizes is worth $25,430 up from $25,019 last year.

2. The first, second, and third prizes are vacation packages and can only be redeemed as such within one year of the raffle. Winners may use the value of their prize trip as a credit toward another vacation package of their choice. If their chosen package is greater in value than the prize they won, the winner is responsible for the difference in cost.

3. Winners may transfer their trip to a third party or organization, if they so desire. Notify us of the transfer within 60 days of the raffle. All time constraints would still apply. Work with the travel agent if there is a problem with travel dates.

4. Since we have already paid for the trips, cash is not an option for the first three prizes.

5. Winners must confirm their acceptance of the prize within 30 days of being notified by returning a copy of the letter we send them asking for a signature and their social security number.

6. The original winners are responsible for all taxes.

Q2:  Is this raffle tax deductible to buyer of tickets since all the money is going to 501C3 charities?  Short Answer NO! 

More information: 

The Internal Revenue Service, in its Publication 526 Charitable Contributions, states that taxpayers cannot take a charitable deduction for money paid to purchase raffle tickets from nonprofit organizations. The IRS includes raffle tickets in its list of "contributions you cannot deduct."

If you receive or expect to receive a financial or economic benefit because of contributing to a qualified organization, you cannot deduct the part of the contribution that represents the value of the benefit you receive.   You cannot deduct as a charitable contribution amounts you pay to buy raffle or lottery tickets or to play bingo or other games of chance.

Q3:  Who is the ‘seller of the ticket’?  When a Brother Knight buys tickets, he is the seller of the ticket.  The seller of a winning ticket will receive $100. Put your name or member number on the front of the ticket to be eligible.  All ten [10] prizes on the ticket are eligible for the sellers award.  If you give outside groups tickets to sell for your council, [example: St Vince de Paul] the person from that group who sells the ticket/s is the seller and entitled to the $100 bonus.  Outside groups need to be 501c3 eligible and are pro-life.  Catholic Churches, Catholic Schools, and Church Ministries are eligible.  The bonus is to encourage sales. 

Q4:  Are the trips for two?  Short Answer YES!

More information:  All trips include airfare, ground transfers, lodging, and transportation for two.

God Bless you, your council, and the Charity Raffle!

Richard Armanini

State Charity Raffle Director

3315 E Dry Creek Road

Phoenix, AZ  85044-7022

Telephone:  480.706.9314

Cell phone:  480.818.1774

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K of C Charity Raffle Update #3 Manual and letters

By now, all councils should have received a supply of Charity Raffle tickets, letters for the Grand Knight, Financial Secretary, Treasurer, and Raffle Chairman along with a manual for each.

In the past four years, we have established the AZ Charity Raffle team members as the State Officers, District Deputies, and Insurance Field Agents.  These leaders make up the outside team since they are outside the council.  In the past, we also gave each council Grand Knight a letter and Charity Raffle Guide [Manual] to share with their Raffle Chairman. 

This year we expanded the council team to include not only the Grand Knight and Raffle Chairman but also the Financial Secretary and Treasurer.  Each plays an important role in the success of the raffle program so they also received a letter and manual.  These four officers make up the inside team. 

State Officers, District Deputies, Field Agents, and Tucson Council 1200 have extra tickets.

God Bless you, your council, and the AZ Charity Raffle!

Richard Armanini

State Charity Raffle Director

3315 E Dry Creek Road

Phoenix, AZ  85044-7022

Telephone:  480.706.9314

Cell phone:  480.818.1774

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K of C Charity Raffle Update #1

Charity Raffle Team members, by now, all councils should have their 2014 Charity Raffle information that includes a supply of tickets and envelops for the Grand Knight, Financial Secretary, Treasurer and Raffle Chairman.  Each envelop contains a letter and manual.  In the Raffle Chairman’s envelope, there are the Charity Raffle Sales Report, Century Sale Report, and Individual Knights Sale of $1,000 or more.  The last two reports are on one page.  These reports are used when everything is turned in at convention time. 

In addition, each council should have received three posters with English on one side and Spanish on the other.  

On Monday February 10^th we will conduct a session on the Charity Raffle at the Tucson Chapter meeting.   All Raffle Chairman are invited especially those who are members of the Chapter.  The session is scheduled in a room next to the Chapter meeting.  We will have extra tickets for councils that need more tickets.

Contact me, if you do not attend the chapter meeting but did not receive envelops and manuals or need more tickets

Richard Armanini

3315 E Dry Creek Road

Phoenix, AZ  85044-7022

richard.armanini@gmail.com

Telephone:  480.706.9314

Cell phone:  480.818.1774

“If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do.  You will achieve the same results”. –Anthony Robbins

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2014 State Raffle Information

Here is the information for the 2014 Arizona State Raffle.

Clicking on the links will attempt to download to your computer. Please make sure your pop-up blockers are turned off.

The Sales Document can be found below.
2014 Raffle Manual

English Poster with space to allow for local charity to be entered in:
English Poster

Spanish Poster with space to allow for local charity to be entered in:
Spanish Poster

The 2014 Information for Sellers will help Brother Knights understand the Mission of the Charity Raffle.  This document supports the 2014 Charity Raffle Manual.

Sales Guide

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2013 State Charity Raffle Winners

K of C State Charity Raffle July 16, 2013

The following list is the CONFIRMEDlist of winners. 

Prize	Name	Home Town	Ticket Number	Council
1st    Portugal	George Falkenback	Hilliard OH	012317	10062
2nd  Barcelona	Anna McSherry	Tucson AZ	039092	6933
3rd  Italy	Jan McElheny	Tucson AZ	070442	13272
4th  $2,500	Mike Summers	Gilbert AZ	076165	3121
5th  $1,500	Julia Lobo	Concord CA	032726	1784
6th  $1,500	Jan Krieski	Tucson AZ	069107	13272
7th  $1,000	Dick Allen	Surprise AZ	011466	12851
8th  $1,000	Leonard Serpa	Phoenix AZ	237843	4339
9th     $500	Jim Levth	Tucson AZ	071106	14089
10th    $500	Francis [Berry] Wills	Glendale AZ	115475	7114

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K of C Charity Raffle Information

Here are the sales guide and posters for the 2013 Arizona State Knights of Columbus Charity Raffle.

2013_Sales_Guide adj w pics 10-29-12.pdf

Posters for 2013.pdf

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