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5 Raffle Prize Ideas to Draw In More Online Raffle Participants

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When it comes to an online raffle, your participants join in to support your cause and for that chance to win big. From large ticket items to the ever popular cash prize, your team must decide what your big ticket item will be once your online raffle is complete. This blog shares five raffle prize ideas that will help you draw in more online participants and unify your community to support your cause. 

1. Exclusive Getaway

From five-star vacations to a trip to a local winery, everyone loves a chance to get away! Consider offering a complimentary trip or experience as the headline prize of your next online raffle. Whether your organization supplies the cost of the trip themselves or if it is donated from a member of your community, exclusive getaway trips make for exciting prize items. Here are a few getaway raffle prize ideas that you can offer your community: 

  • A cruise to a location in the tropics 
  • A mountain weekend with skiing and hiking 
  • A staycation with a sporting event, hotel and restaurant selection 
  • A beachside destination for a summer vacation 
  • A bright lights and big city experience in Chicago, New York or Boston 

2. Give Your Winner the Star Treatment

Giving a bit of added convenience to someone in your community may end up being one of the best raffle prize ideas you could choose. For schools or churches, some of the simplest ideas involve a free pass or an on-campus incentive. Some of these ideas may include: 

  • A year-long prime parking location 
  • Reserved seating at a parish holiday mass or event
  • A free dress down day or week
  • Special table at the annual auction and complimentary tickets
  • A catered on-campus lunch with your class 
  • Bring your parents, grandparents or loved ones to lunch day
  • Renaming a street sign on campus for a year
  • A day off-school or an early release day

3. Cash Prize 

While one of the tried and true raffle prize ideas, a cash prize always gets communities excited about the possibility of winning big. Go Raise Dough offers three styles of online raffles that pair well with cash prizes — Queen of Hearts, the traditional 50/50 and Mega raffles. 

Queen of Hearts is a progressive style raffle where all participants are in search of the Queen of Hearts card in order to win the big cash prize. Leading up to the discovery of the Queen, your community can offer smaller cash prizes to drum up the excitement until the Queen is revealed. 

Our 50/50 and mega raffles are similarly set up to traditional raffles held at sporting events, churches, schools or other nonprofit organizations. After an allotted amount of time, a raffle ticket will be drawn and the winner will take home either the whole prize in the mega raffle or a portion of the cash prize in the 50/50 raffle. 

4. Large Ticket Item 

A large raffle prize might be just what you need to garner excitement from your community. These raffle prize ideas may come as a donation from a member of your community or through a local business sponsorship. Here are a few ideas that have retained popularity over the years and work well for online raffles: 

  • Purebred family dogs such as golden retrievers, labradors, doodle mixes or shepherds 
  • Luxury or new-to-the-market cars
  • RVs, ATVs, golf carts or motorcycles
  • Home renovation projects such as a kitchen remodel 
  • Home appliances
  • Technology such as smart home features, Apple products or TVs
  • Concert or major sporting event tickets 

5. Assemble a Specialty Basket 

Specialty baskets can contain a variety of speciality items to get participants interested in donating to your online raffle. However, it might be helpful to ask a few community members what they think may be a successful specialty basket to tie into your next online raffle fundraiser. Here are a few raffle prize ideas that might appeal to church, school, sports program or charity communities. 

  • Gift card assortment basket — Your team can provide gift cards to frequently shopped places such as your local grocery store, Amazon, Target, QuikTrip and 
  • The sports fanatic basket — Stock it up with box seats to a local sports team, local sports apparel, or limited edition apparel for your sports program. 
  • Many nights out basket — Fill this basket with local restaurant cards for a variety of cuisines such as Italian, Mexican, American, fine dining, sports bar and grill, sandwich shops and more. 
  • The wine weekend basket — Supply this basket with a selection of fine wines, a cheese board, gift card to a local store for charcuterie items, wine pairings book and more for a tasting night at home. 

Build Your Next Online Raffle with Go Raise Dough 

If these raffle prize ideas got you thinking about your next online fundraiser, we are here to help you get started! Go Raise Dough offers simple yet effective online raffle ticket fundraisers that will help you generate more funds in less time. From progressive raffles that lengthen overtime to shorter term mega raffles, we have low cost solutions that will help you reimagine your current fundraising efforts. 

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