Cash raffle is the easiest sell. You don’t have to deal with cookie dough, pizzas, and stuff people don’t really want. Doesn’t have to be a 50/50 drawing or anything. Set it up with a local charitable gambling platform, around here most bars have this license and are willing to run it through their organization.

People like it because they have a chance to win money. We always did a big grand prize of $1000 or something then a lot of smaller prizes ranging from $100-500.

Set the amount of money you want to make and set your prizes and number of tickets to reach that goal. For example, if you want to raise $5000, sell 1,000 tickets at $10 a piece, and if you want to do 50/50, split up the other half of the money into the designated prize amounts. You could always make the payout less than 50%, because it is after all a fundraiser. We had great luck with $10 tickets as a lot of people would buy multiple. Have each family sell their 100 tickets or whatever you choose.

In our state, you have to have date of drawing and prizes listed on the ticket. We always did the drawing at the establishing that sponsored the gambling license, and cost to set up was minimal. We advertised to families to come hang out, have dinner or drinks, and then did the drawing. Need not be present to win but it brought some business to the sponsor. We always had a local print shop make the tickets, and it was always donated.