The purpose of door prizes
Posted by Scott Ward on November 02, 05
Ever wonder why you’re hit up for a donation for door prize tickets when you show up to a chapter dinner?
Besides having a fun way to keep everyone involved to the end of the meeting, the Chapter uses the funds raised from these drawings to meet our annual contribution pledge to the Texas Credit Union Foundation .
Those funds are earmarked for the newspapers in education program in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. During the fall, for ten consecutive Wednesdays, the Star-Telegram runs a full page financial education lesson that is used in schools throughout our area. In fact, credit union employees often go out in to the classrooms as part of the program.
Please check out a Wednesday edition of the Star-Telegram, you’ll see a lesson as well as the recognition the chapter and foundation are getting every week.
To maximize our donations, member credit unions take turns donating prizes for the drawings and our preferred partners also often contribute door prizes. If you’d like more information contributing door prizes, contact Terrie Johnson.
On the web: National Endowment for Financial Education and
As an interesting follow-up, the chapter recieved an unsolicited “thank you” for the newspapers in education program. Anna in Granbury tracked down our contact information and wrote:
“Many thanks to your foundation and its sponsorship of the NiE series on Smart Money.
I work with a group of ladies eager to acquire their GED. We have worked with your budget ideas and I plan to do the ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire.”
Your interst in education is greatly appreciated.”
thank you
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