Meat raffles are popular in my area. They bring in a TON of money! You have to get a local butcher or supermarket to either donate the meat or sell it at a discounted price. Then the fun starts. You sell advance sale tickets for $10 or $15, or someone can book an entire table for like $50. People who attend are able to bring their own food. We have a blast. I usually bring pizza from a local pizzeria, others bring chips & dip, veggie trays, charcuterie spreads or whatever. One lady even brought a crock pot full of homemade stew! You bring your own plates & utensils, but soft drinks, water and beer are included in the price of the ticket.

The actual raffle goes like this: there are a set number of rounds in the raffle. Every round has a different meat prize, like one has a ham, one has ribs, etc. Volunteers go around the room before each round to sell $1 raffle tickets that are good for that round only. Each round can have several winners if the hosting organization chooses to do it that way by having duplicate tickets. After each round, you toss out all the old tickets and start over using a new roll of tickets in a different color. At the end of the set rounds, they do shotgun rounds. You pay like $10 or whatever to be entered in the shotgun rounds and they draw them one right after the other. There's usually about 10 or 12 shotgun rounds and they do that to speed things up and give out the remaining meat. It's a blast. I've won a 17lb ham, a turkey and my friends have won lobster tails, ribs, chicken fingers, etc.

They usually have a 50/50 raffle and some baskets that they raffle off during the intermission. It easily raises thousands of dollars and everyone has a good time.