Recently I began working for a nonprofit org running fundraising efforts. While I’ve helped with small raffles before (just for my neighborhood church), I’ve never run any on the scale that this organization needs. One thing I was dreading working on was making the raffle tickets. Again, I’ve never done something like this on a large scale before, so we never designed anything fancy. We either used a home printer and software program to draw and print the tickets, or we bought a bundle of generic raffle tickets at a local store and used them as is. However, generic tickets just wouldn’t do it for this large organization’s fundraisers, and I thought the kind of homemade tickets I’d made in the past would look too sloppy, never mind taking up far too much effort and printer ink (are you aware printer ink’s the most expensive liquid on Earth?). I took a look at some raffle ticket templates online, and found they were going to be just as much trouble as designing the tickets from scratch.
So I was hugely relieved to find this company online. They’ll print 500 tickets for $35 (far cheaper than many of the software options out there, and certainly less than a new printer!). The tickets are totally customizable. Not only can I choose the words for the main part of the ticket, but I can even include the NPO’s logo very inexpensively. They’ll print the tickets individually, in stapled books or in pads, making distribution less difficult, too. And no more hand-lettering the ticket numbers!
This specific company works specifically with NPOs, so they were very easy to collaborate with and knew precisely what they were doing. The idea of having a human voice on the other end of the phone if I need help or support is definitely awesome, but the online interface is so easy to use that I haven’t required it yet. I’d definitely recommend outsourcing raffle ticket printing to other non-profits.
