Pago-Pago, American Samoa – Looking to raise more money at your golf event this season? Maybe it’s time to add a golf ball drop to your event! The people of American Samoa are another step closer to the dream of having their first community swimming pool thanks to the Rotary Club’s 6th Annual Golf Tournament & $50,000 Golf Ball Drop. Contestants in the golf ball drop purchase one of 1000 numbered golf balls which are then dropped from a bucket truck onto a target “hole”. If any of the five numbered balls falling closest to the hole match a preselected lucky golf ball number, the “owner” wins $50,000, paid for by Odds On Promotions. While there wasn’t a $50,000 grand prize winner, three lucky ball-buyers still received some fantastic prizes. The first-place winner, Spencer Sword, took home a round-trip ticket to Honolulu, courtesy of Hawaiian Airlines. The second-place winner, Jackie Young, picked up $500 and the third-place winner was Jeff Shively who won $250. This year’s event helped the Rotarians to surpass their $100,000 fundraising goal getting them that much closer to a community pool.
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Big Blackjack Bucks
Reno, Nev. – Looking for a fun way to super-size your next casino night fundraiser?
Want to up the ante on your weekly, monthly or quarterly blackjack tournaments?
How about giving a few VIPs the chance to score $10,000, $100,000 or even $1,000,000?
The Isle of Pompano Park recently gave their players the chance to win $100,000, paid for by Odds On Promotions in a Rat Pack-themed Blackjack Sweepstakes promotion. Players selected two Lucky Envelopes, each containing the image of an oversized playing card, in hopes of hitting a blackjack in order to win the $100,000 insured prize.
While no one scored “21”, the casino made sure everyone walked a way a winner by handing out guaranteed prizes – free slot play – based on each player’s hand: 17/18 received $300 in slot play, 19/20 received $500 in slot play.
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$1,000,000 Rally 4 Charity
Men Take a Swing at Guinness World Record, Million Dollar Prize
Milford, Conn. – Isidro Martinez of Stratford and Paul Coorssen of Milford attempted to break the Guinness World Record™ for the longest tennis rally and win $1,000,000, paid for by Odds On Promotions, as part of the 3rd Annual Rally 4 Charity fundraiser at Milford Indoor Tennis. Martinez and Coorssen won the right to go for the record after hitting 5,916 consecutive strokes in a qualifier. While the two men tallied a staggering 6,858 consecutive shots in about an hour and a half, an unofficial world record for such a short time period, it wasn’t enough to beat Rally 4 Charity organizers and world-record holders Angelo and Ettore Rossetti who have set the bar high with a giant 25,944 consecutive strokes. “Win or lose, it was about the charities,” stated Coorssen, and on that front the event was a success, raising around $10,000, the biggest amount to date. According to World Record holder and Rally 4 Charity organizer Rossetti, “The million dollar prize did help us to capture more publicity – which is good for the charities as well as for tennis. We were very happy with the service from Odds On Promotions. Zak is always very organized and professional.”
Barton County Community College Foundation Flushes Out New Donors
Sporting Clay Shoot Helps College Triple Grant Funds
Great Bend, Kan. – To raise money for their faculty mini-grant program, the Barton County Community College Foundation (BCCCF) held a sporting clay shoot featuring the chance to win a John Deere Gator ATV, sponsored by Great Bend Farm Equipment and Randy Hayden, President of the Alliance Insurance Group.
“We were looking for a new fundraiser. We already do a golf tournament and have a very successful auction,” explained Darnell Holopirek, executive director of Institutional Advancement for the BCCCF. “This event touched a different group of people and based on the response, we’ve clearly tapped into something.”
To incent participation and encourage early registration, the first 100 registrants were eligible to win the $10,000 Gator ATV, paid for by Odds On Promotions, if they could score a 100. While no one achieved the grand prize winning score of 100, a few shooters came close, with one scoring a very impressive 95.
Considered golf with a shotgun, the shoot took place at the LaSada Sporting Clays Club and drew a total of 143 participants – 43 more than the first year making it the second largest event in the state. The event also raised $7,800 for faculty mini-grants, which was three times the amount raised during the first year.
According to Randy Hayden with Alliance Insurance Group, “I’ve been working with Mike Maloy with Odds On for a few years now. We’ve done several good promotions – a dice roll for a Harley, a Prize Vault, and golf. This one was really well received. And I understand it was a different audience that the college wouldn’t have normally connected with.”
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Million Dollar Duck Race
Sell More Ducks …
Running a fundraising duck race? This year give donors the chance to win a giant cash prize, paid for by Odds On, with every duck, turtle, frog or fish they adopt! For example, for as little as $600 you can give every participant the chance to win $50,000 if their preselected “lucky duck” crosses the finish line first. Or, split the prize 50/50 with the duck owner and the charity for a real win/win. We’ll insure up to $1,000,000; call today for a hassle-free quote.