By COLlive reporter
The board of directors of Beth Rivkah has introduced an innovative fundraising campaign aimed at easing the burden of tuition for parents, while helping place the school on a solid financial footing.
In a letter to parents earlier this week, the board announced The Beth Rivkah Winter Raffle scheduled to take place on Jan 11, 2017/24 Teves 5778.
“A raffle is an exciting and proven fundraising technique,” explained Rabbi Yossi Baumgarten, the school’s newly hired Assistant Director of Development.
“It is a wonderful opportunity for the parents to take an active role in solidifying this amazing institution, but we wanted to add a unique incentive that would directly benefit our parent body.”
The unique incentive is that parents of Beth Rivkah students will have the opportunity to sell raffle tickets and reduce their tuition costs. The initial $200 worth of tickets sold by each family will go directly into Beth Rivkah’s development fund. Each additional ticket sold by a family will reduce their tuition dollar for dollar, with no limit or cap to the tuition reduction.
Aside from easing the tremendous financial burdens of a thriving school and assisting hardworking families with tuition, the board of directors believes this initiative will create a sense of cohesion necessary for Beth Rivkah to continue providing a top-notch chinuch experience.
“Ultimately we are a community school,” explained Mr. Dovid Junik, a Crown Heights businessman and board member. “Our students, parents and Hanhalah are all working towards the same goals. We believe that by working together Beth Rivkah will blossom from strength to strength.”
The raffle will also include some exciting prizes:
Grand Prize: $12,000 Jackpot
Prize 2: Free 2 year car lease
Prize 3: Two Round trip tickets to Israel
The fundraising campaign was well received by parents of Beth Rivkah’s student body.
“This is a creative way to get parents involved with the growth of the school and with their children’s education, not to mention save some money.”
Ticket packages begin as low as $100. For more information about ticket packages and prizes, visit bethrivkah.edu/raffle.
If the tickets were $18 or $36, some of us would who can’t afford more could consider. But when the starting price is $100 – it’s unfortunately not an option.
btw, same is with Hatzola’s raffle 🙁
https://bethrivkahedu.clhosting.org/templates/articlecco_cdo/aid/3824935/jewish/Winter-Raffle.htm
Dear #7, You are unfortunately mistaken. All schools, yeshivas and even day schools know they have to fundraise to cover their budget. This has been the case for all the years. The whole “tuition crisis” began because schools and yeshivos for some reason stopped fundraising. Ideally, tuition should be from each family what it could afford. In all fairness, itdoes take more effort to fundraise for a Lubavitch mosad for our children because (wrongly, if you as me) everyone is giving their ma’aser and tzedokoh to their brother, nephew, cousin, etc who is on shlichus and not to their own… Read more »
This is a very interesting idea, but I’m afraid that CH’ers will be bombarded by people trying to sell physical tickets when many people have friends out of town.
Maybe everyone should get a simple landing page or even the option to have a code that people can sell online and it will be attributed to them
Much hatzalcha to the parents and the school!
$100 for the cheapest ticket?!?! People I know might spend $18 on a ticket but $100 isn’t a reasonable amount for the average crown heightser
The president of YU once said of a menahal
Their are 3 G G G
Give money or get money from others or get out of the Mosed
The school must raise money also
Not true. I’m a shliach and lots of my programs such as Hebrew School, etc.. are affordable due to my fundraising. This is not just my case but the case of most Shluchim. For some reason day schools feel that they are an exemption. The Rebbe wanted Jewish education to be affordable and It is therfore the Shlichus of the Mosad to make it affordable. The only way is by fundraising and not taking shortcuts.
Are all the people you know fellow Bais Rivka parents?? Come on. Share the burden
Poster 3.
The school is not mechuyov to fundraise. Parents however, do have to pay tuition. Let’s appreciate their efforts.
In some mosdos they specify, ticket $xx
Tax receipt: $yy
By law are not tax deductible
Always doing innovative things to help out others.
stupid. i sell a ticket to you, you sell a ticket to me, same money going round and round in the community
i dont have money to pay the tuition and the same way I dont have money to buy the tickets.
just another way to pass the burden onto parents
instead of fundraising
Do we get tax deductible receipts?
Kol Hakavod