Do you yell "Fore!" or "Geranimo!" or just plain get out of the way at this fundraising event? Take a look at this idea from Nashua, NH we found.
[T]he Golf Ball Drop steadily pulls the fun in fundraising up a notch or two, using a helicopter to disburse 1,000 balls from overhead within moments.
According to event organizer Christina Austin, who is the YMCA of Greater Nashua’s administrative assistant, a former employee came up with this cool fundraising idea, which has grown in popularity each year. The rules are simple and the prizes plentiful.
The thousand golf balls will be dropped from a helicopter owned by Bob Clouthier of CR Helicopters of Nashua at an altitude of 500 feet above an area set up as a golf green at Camp Sargent. Balls are numbered to correspond with each purchase. Should your ball land a hole-in-one, you’ll go home $1,000 richer. There’s a $100 prize for the ball that lands closest to the pin, $75 for balls two through five that are closest to the pin, $50 for the sixth-closest to the pin and $50 for the ball that lands farthest from the pin.
How do you get in on the fun? Balls are being sold at the Nashua and Merrimack YMCAs at $10 each. Anyone who buys five balls will get a sixth one free.
Proceeds will benefit the YMCA’s Y Cares Financial Assistance Program, which lends support to individuals and families in the community who are living on fixed or limited incomes and can’t afford to pay for Y programs and services.
