Business Women of Moose Jaw co-hosting online raffle for Moose Jaw Transition House
The Business Women of Moose Jaw are encouraging people across Saskatchewan to help support the Moose Jaw Transition House in a new way this year — with the launch of an online 50/50 raffle.
The online raffle has been organized in partnership with the Transition House and will remain open until April 30, selling individual tickets for $20 or 3 for $50 to raise funds for the Transition House and its programming. “We thought the easiest way to host this [was online], instead of trying to get out to people face-to-face to sell them tickets,” said BWMJ member Crystal Milburn. Purchasing raffle tickets can be done online at mj-transitionhouse5050.ca, where residents located in Moose Jaw are able to fill out the form and purchase their tickets through the webpage.
For residents who live outside of Moose Jaw, opening the webpage will direct them to a phone number to call, where they can provide their information and tickets will be purchased for them.
“It makes it really easy for people to participate and the prize can be anywhere up to $50,000, depending on how many people we get buying tickets, so it should be a nice little boost for some lucky winner,” said Milburn. Milburn said the goal of the new fundraiser is to provide a donation to the Transition House in 2021, despite the cancellation of this year’s in-person PRISM Awards and the subsequent donation the annual event usually provides.
“Fundraising [for the Transition House] is incredibly beneficial and helps to do important work in our community,” said Milburn. “And this sort of event can help raise awareness about the services the Transition House provides for vulnerable people in need.”
In place of this year’s event, the BWMJ instead took to Facebook to share highlights from past awards, celebrating past winners and their accomplishments all over again.
Last year’s PRISM Awards donation totalled $8,652 and so the BWMJ are hoping that the raffle will help offer a donation of comparable size this year as well. “We’ve raised something like $100,000 in the last seven years, [and] we’re hoping to at least approach what the event would normally have raised for the Transition House this year,” said Milburn.
The cancellation of this year’s PRISM Awards was a tough decision, said Milburn, and the BWMJ are looking forward to returning to the stage to celebrate female excellence next year.
She encouraged people to not only consider purchasing raffle tickets but to share the details on social media, and to even begin considering nominees for next year’s PRISM Awards gala.