{"id":9750,"date":"2011-11-15T11:01:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T11:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=9750"},"modified":"2011-11-15T11:01:29","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T11:01:29","slug":"wanted-pr-ideas-for-car-raffle-training-for-teen-car-racers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/publicity\/wanted-pr-ideas-for-car-raffle-training-for-teen-car-racers\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanted: PR ideas for car raffle, training for teen car racers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9751\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9751\" style=\"width: 126px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/barbara-roy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9751\" title=\"barbara roy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/barbara-roy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"126\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9751\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara Roy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This week&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/blog\/publicity-dilemma-let-publicity-hound-readers-help-for-free\" target=\"_blank\"> Help this Hound <\/a>question is from Barbara Roy, a communications specialist \u00a0in Oakland City, IN:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u00a0 need\u00a0ideas on how to promote\u00a0an upcoming charity car raffle in 2012 through\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madmacfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mad Mac Foundation<\/a>, a group that sponsors educational programs for at-risk youth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Proceeds from the raffle\u00a0will be used to\u00a0get teenagers, who illegally race their cars on\u00a0street,\u00a0into\u00a0the classroom where they can learn how to build tuner cars from the ground up. The training will help them\u00a0transfer\u00a0their skills, which they&#8217;ve been\u00a0using illegally, into\u00a0career paths that might include\u00a0auto engineering and design, auto repair, and creating video games that involve cars.\u00a0\u00a0The curriculum includes\u00a0science, technology, engineering and math.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two cars will be given away during the July raffle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The winter months will be spent on materials prep and strategy. But beginning in January, we&#8217;ll focus more on going after sponsors and businesses\u00a0to carry the raffle tickets.\u00a0 I could really use recommendations\u00a0on\u00a0how to gain mass awareness for this nationwide event.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will have branding, messaging and content on the website by January, as well as a Facebook event page.\u00a0 Can your Hounds offer their best ideas?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you have ideas, please comment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Help this Hound question is from Barbara Roy, a communications specialist \u00a0in Oakland City, IN: &#8220;I\u00a0 need\u00a0ideas on how to promote\u00a0an upcoming charity car raffle in 2012 through\u00a0the Mad Mac Foundation, a group that sponsors educational programs for at-risk youth. &#8220;Proceeds from the raffle\u00a0will be used to\u00a0get teenagers, who illegally race their cars\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/publicity\/wanted-pr-ideas-for-car-raffle-training-for-teen-car-racers\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":23,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[691],"tags":[605,617,607],"class_list":["post-9750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-publicity","tag-news-events","tag-nonprofit-marketing","tag-promotions","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}