The Miami Chapter of Delta Upsilon has held the best philanthropy on Miami University's campus for a few years now. It is basically a raffle for a car -- we started with a Jeep Cherokee, and last year we used a Jeep Wrangler. We partnered ourselves with Alpha Phi and sold tickets around campus for a couple weeks. We called it "Kiss Off" originally. Random ticket buyers were drawn and whoever could kiss the car the longest got it. The winner gets the car (a two year lease). Last year we called it "Turn On" where the random ticket buyers picked a key out of a bucket and tried to turn on the car. Obviously only one of the keys was the right one. We were able to raise a total of around $12,000 with about $5,000 given to the local counseling and crisis center.
I put more info in the Philanthropy section of our website if you are interested.
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Brian Sejas
VP-Public Relations
The Miami Chapter of Delta Upsilon
http://www.mudeltau.org