By Tom Seibert – Interim Regional Director – (414) 750-8260
This article originally appeared in Wisconsin Waterfowl Association’s May 2020 Volunteer Newsletter edition.
It looks like things are finally going to start to return to normal, but that may take months. Class A’s are one way to supplement your chapter’s income while riding out this shutdown of public events, and they have been extremely successful. Find an outdoor place for your drawing such as a gun club or park and plan your date for later this summer or fall. Find a hot item to raffle such as popular gun (contact me for ideas) or a new item, i.e., a Layout Blind/Boat package or fishing trip, etc. We can help with online sales, but keep it cost efficient to keep ticket prices down and limit to low numbers to sell. We need to make lemonade from this case of lemons we have been handed.
I want to remind you of another opportunity to increase your chapter numbers and reach your Super Goals for 2020. We have our UTV Raffle tickets available for you to sell now. All ticket sales go towards your chapter’s net total. Hurry up and get your tickets to sell now. You can Contact Rob Monette at robmarshlandwwa@gmail.com if your chapter hasn’t gotten tickets yet. We would like to sell this out to supplement our bottom line and now especially we could really use this source of income. Now is the time to check your calendar and find a date besides your banquet to sell UTV tickets at once we have the clearance. Check with Rob to see if another chapter has it booked. We should have the UTV at an event every weekend this summer when the “All Clear” is given.
We now have a Merchandise Committee Chairman in Ian Bartlemez, who is looking hard for products to review and promote from state manufacturers that we could partner with. If you have a sponsor or donor that fits the model here, please contact us wwainfo@centurytel.net so that we can help them and WWA during this unique situation. Send along the contact information also. Let’s make this a win-win for all.
Thanks for all you do for WWA. I truly appreciate all of your efforts.