The Volunteers for Literacy (VFL) announced their first annual Love for Literacy raffle winner Valentine’s night at Your Pie in Clarkesville among an enthusiastic bunch of community members.
Stacy Kaufman of Atlanta, who submitted five entries into the raffle, won the $5,000 prize.
Entries came to the raffle from as far away as Texas and the Carolinas to support Habersham’s Volunteers for Literacy, a group that supports reading, literacy and education in Habersham County. While the organization didn’t reach its fundraising goal of $20,000, with raffle tickets selling at $20 each, VFL Executive Director Phylecia Wilson says she’s still happy to receive the support they did.
Wilson hopes to have the fundraiser again in the future but at a different time of year. She says there were other good things to come out of the Love for Literacy raffle other than fundraising, though. Wilson says that they came away with community engagement and new volunteers.
“We’re really pleased with what we did,” Wilson told Now Habersham. “Considering it’s the first year we’ve done it and the time of year we had it.”
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