Bourbon raffle to assistance downtown Miamisburg companies
2 min readThe group’s largest fundraised, Monte Carlo Evening, was held last yr ideal before the pandemic, raising $12,000. With that not an possibility this year, MMA lately released a bourbon-bottle raffle fundraiser, Engelke said.
The raffle contains 17 bottles of bourbon. Former MMA President Brian Yeakley, a bourbon aficionado, drove all-around Kentucky to procure the restricted and hard-to-come across bottles, she claimed.
“We’re tremendous enthusiastic about that,” Engelke stated. “It’s a great way to be capable to raise a important amount of dollars with extremely very little expense.”
Tickets are $50 each individual and only 600 tickets will be sold by way of www.miamisburgmerchants.com. The bottles will be divided into 4 prize ranges, four each and every for 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize and 5 bottles for fourth prize.
Entrants must be 21 yrs outdated or more mature to purchase a ticket via March 15. Winning tickets will be drawn on or before March 19.
A golf outing in August raised extra than $6,500 and yet another golfing outing is becoming organized for June.
“We’re performing extremely hard to maintain the resources coming in and we’re seeking to be a minor little bit extra innovative,” she reported. “The Monte Carlo evening is wonderful, and its a historic function that has usually lifted revenue and brought the neighborhood collectively, but we have to glance at carrying out items a minimal little bit otherwise.”
Very last March, MMA joined with Miamisburg Rotary Club, the town of Miamisburg and Miamisburg Neighborhood Foundation to generate the Star Metropolis Organization Help Fund, pulling collectively $40,000 and creating a “very successful” no-desire bank loan software that has observed just about every financial loan taker both repay the financial loan or at least be in the method of repaying it, Engelke stated.
MMA was one particular of many groups to arrange in late December the Louise Epperson Cafe Rescue Fund, a COVID-relief grant is assisting Miamisburg dining establishments offset some of the burden all through the financial problems of the pandemic.
“We elevate dollars not to maintain on to it. We elevate funds to spend it and get it again out to the corporations,” Engelke claimed. “So now our emphasis, with all the cash that we increase, just producing confident that we’ve obtained the potential to guide corporations as every little thing does commence to open up back again up.”
