How would $1 million change your life? Perhaps you would purchase a new home and take a dream vacation to Hawaii, like Yvette Sandoval of Gilbert did after winning Grand Prize #1 in the Spring 2007 Health & Wealth Raffle.
Or, maybe you would invest in real estate and decide that from this point forward, you would only fly first class. That’s what Sun City resident Ellen Lawrence did. She won the $1 million Grand Prize in the Fall 2005 Raffle.
The Fall 2007 Health & Wealth Raffle is going on now with your chance to be Arizona’s next millionaire. The ninth Health & Wealth Raffle since 003 is still the nation’s largest raffle with more than 9,000 prizes worth a total of $5.2 million. Proceeds support patient care, medical education and research at St. Joseph’s and Barrow.
Where do Raffle dollars go? Here are just a few examples:
- The Raffle has supported nearly 100 research projects, including the research of Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD, and Stephen Macknik, PhD, featured in this issue of Barrow.
- The Raffle provided start-up funding for St. Joseph’s Heart & Lung Institute and its Lung Transplant Center, the first in the Valley.
- The Raffle funds trauma prevention programs, prenatal services for uninsured low-income women and other outreach activities.
“Each time you purchase a Health & Wealth Raffle ticket, you are helping Arizona win with improved healthcare,” says Mary Jane Crist, chief executive officer of St. Joseph’s Foundation and Barrow Neurological Foundation. “The Raffle enables the Foundations to fund many projects and services that we would otherwise be unable to support.”
