San Diego Astronomy Association solves this through an opportunity drawing
(CA's way of dealing with raffles for non-profits). Everyone who attends
receives 1 free ticket. They sell tickets for $1, and I think 5 for $3,
and 7 for $5 (confirming). They use the proceeds to buy the prizes and any
excess goes into the coffers for outreach activities. The grand prize is
typically something like a telrad (in that price range). Sometimes the
prizes are donated. They are a big club but typically see 60 to 70 attend
the monthly meetings (it is a very big county). Here's a link to the rules
for Washington.
http://www.wsgc.wa.gov/publications/brochures/5-164-raffles.pdf
Mike
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Message from:
Michael L. Finch
Spokane, WA 99208
E-mail: michael.finch96@xxxxxxxxx
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 8:13 AM, <cave8@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Points to ponder,
I believe the Astro Box is a great idea.
And to respond to the magazines Astronomy and Sky & Telescope the ones
that are handed out should be the
current month. Because March magazine should already be in the mail to
give out at the March meeting. It shouldn't be old issue.
I think if you add up the amount of yearly cost of the magazines plus the
Astro Box.
then total what we spent before, When it was $50.00 each month. The Astro
Box is a great idea if the board is going to
start spending money on door prizes again. The Astro Box & magazines are
less then half the cost we use to spend. That is just
handing out the current month for each magazine. not handing out a
subscription. But we could approach the magazines and see if they will
donate a 1year subscription. I do know that Astronomy magazine gave us a
subscription to hand out for a raffle we were holding one year.
As for the funding of the telescopes, the libraries are suppose to be
funding them with the Grants and what ever
monies they have or through fund raising that they do. With the help from
us.
The club isn't suppose to be burden with the cost of all the telescope. We
are suppose to be a mentor for the telescope.
Just a few points to ponder.
If you want I can contact the magazines to see if I can get them to donate
a subscription?
Debbie Cotten
Outreach, Event Coordinator of
The Spokane Astronomical Society
cave8@xxxxxxxxxxx
509-991-2518 <(509)%20991-2518>
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*From: *"Paul" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*To: *"sasbod" <sasbod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*Sent: *Sunday, February 19, 2017 5:26:22 PM
*Subject: *[SAS-BOD] Re: AstroBox
I think I remember who it was who suggested we cancel the door prizes as
being a waste of money.
Under the old system we assigned each board member a month or two out of
the year--we rotated board members--to bring door prizes. The expectation
was that no one would exceed $50 a year.
As I wandered around if I happened to see something that would make a nice
prize I would buy it. NASA coffee mugs when I was last at Cape Canaveral,
for example. Steeply discounted space books from local clothing stores.
It's nice that some of the money might pass through local retailers.
Are the door prizes a sound investment? What if we just did only one door
prize? What if, instead of back issues, the door prize was the current
astronomy magazine? A regular one year subscription to "Astronomy" is $43.
To encourage attendance we could have a free drawing, once or twice a
year, limited to all new members over the past year, and award the winner a
one year subscription to Astronomy or Sky & Telescope (their choice).
Instead of door prizes, $219 would finance a library telescope. I don't
recall--is there a plaque on the Shadle Library telescope:
Donated by the
Spokane Astronomical Society
www.spokaneastronomy.org
I should get a couple of plates stamped for the two new telescopes. Is
there anything else we need on it? Like the year, for example? Currently
telescopes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx points to Elle. I recommend we modify
this to make it point to a list of people who will field library telescope
questions, and that we create a new address: equipment@spokaneastronomy.
com to forward to the equipment manager. Whoever that is--it isn't
listed on our current newsletter.
Nick, under "Resources" you might add a tab for library telescopes.
Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo
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On Sun, 2/19/17, jenny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <jenny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Subject: [SAS-BOD] Re: AstroBox
To: sasbod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sunday, February 19, 2017, 3:24 PM
So $55 a box, which has 5
to 8 items. Enough for at least 1 grand prize
and one other prize for the three meetings a
single box would cover.
Three items are
always a shirt, patch, and art print, so those are
probably our grand prize items. We then flesh
it out with the magazines,
posters, and
other stray goodies we tend to get in.
Broken down, that's less than $20 per
month, takes minimal effort, and
may have a
big wow factor for members/potential members, so I'm
on
board with it.
-Jenny
On
2017-02-19 16:06, Nick Monkman wrote:
>
Hi all,
>
> At the
meeting we discussed the need to improve our door prizes a
bit.
> One idea was a monthly box of
astronomy-themed goodies.
>
> http://www.astrobox.rocks
>
> $219 / year
>
> What do you
think?
