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Jan 09Is “whoring for a good cause” ok?
My friends Emily and Lindsey work at LCBH, a Chi-town nonprofit dedicated to providing affordable housing and squatters’ tenants’ rights (disclosure: I do some freelancing for them). They’re currently organizing Hearts for Housing, their annual Hearts tournament (with open bar!) and raffle, but they’re having a bit of trouble selling tickets. Now, I’d normally slap someone for trying to pull that do-gooder crap on me, but the raffle items are actually pretty good–a pair of plane tickets anywhere in the US, a day in the Moto kitchen with uber-famous chef Homaru Cantu, and an overnight and breakfast at Sofitel (one of the top 500 hotels in the world), among others. And Emily’s confided that they’ve only sold about thirty tickets thus far, but they have over 100 raffle items…so right now, your chance of winning is about 333%, according to my calculations. If you don’t like people or live in Chicago, good news! You don’t even have to show up to win. So give them yr money.