Drawing and Giveaway Questions - Need Your Input Please...

So I have this idea… 

About generating more money for donations through and for "My Mom Pattie".

This would be a way for me to collect more money to achieve my goals to raise funds to donate to special non-profit organizations in memory of my mom (Pattie)…

Right now I want to reach a goal of $2,500 to donate to Tri-State Bird Rescue to have a small room or outdoor area designated in her memory… (still need @ $2,000 to go).

I ran it by Dave to see what he thought, and he is unsure of how much actual interest it would generate… So now I turn to you, my blogging audience...

MY IDEA:

For $25 you would get 12 chances (1 chance a month) to win a $50 Marsha Neal Studio merchandise gift certificate to be used through my online shopping cart or Etsy shop towards a retail priced purchase (to be used by August 31, 2011).

I would be "selling" these chances until August 31, 2010. 

So there would be a set number of entries every month...

You could buy multiple chances…

That means every month I would be doing a random drawing for $50, starting September 1 (which happens to be my mom's birthday…)

The monies raised through this would go towards the room at TriState Bird Rescue in the name of "My Mom Pattie". If it happens to raise more money, then the overflow monies would go towards the next non profit (like the Leukemia and Lymphoma society… My mom, Pattie, died of AML in Sept. 2007).

To generate comments about this idea, I think I will have to offer a "giveaway" to commenters on this blog post (not on FaceBook).

So let's do like I did for the FaceBook Fans Giveaway… 

Put a comment on this post in regards to my idea (is it viable, questions, concerns, etc…) by July 27, 2010: midnight EST and then include your favorite glaze color at the end of your comment (see my website or previous blog posts for colors) for one of my cutout flower pendants. I will pull one random number from all the comments and that person will get the cutout flower pendant mailed to them on a silk ribbon that matches…

Thanks for your input…

If it looks like a good idea, I'm going to be starting to sell chances on August 1, 2010…

Thanks! Really...