Hey everyone,

Pinball EDU is 51% complete for its first raffle for a pinball machine. You can follow the progress on Pinball EDU's website, www.pinball4kids.org. International entries are OK!

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We place pinball machines with families that have children with autism, and we're in the process of opening our first community center in Maryland. All of the money raised goes to the charity.

Details at:
www.pinballraffle.org

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Joe P. Said
Executive Director/Founder
Pinball EDU
www.pinball4kids.org

September's raffle is sold out. Thanks for support!

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Everyone should now have received an email to confirm their entry in the raffle. Please check your spam folders if you haven't received one.

We'll be doing a LIVE drawing in DC at 6:30pm EST at Lyman's Tavern, 3720 14th St. NW, Washington DC 20011. You're welcome to attend in person, or you may tune in an watch LIVE online at:

http://www.twitch.tv/pinballjoe

Pinball!
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Joe P. Said
Executive Director/Founder
Pinball EDU
http://www.pinball4kids.org

Our October Raffle has a couple added prizes from ColorDMD and Stern!

http://www.pinball-edu.org/pinball-raffle

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Let me know if you have any questions or ideas and I'll try to address them as well as I can.

I've got a tentative meeting for Thursday with an important community member that's helping us in our mission of opening the first Pinball Education Center. The support through these raffles is very much appreciated.

Join us on facebook if you already haven't at:
https://www.facebook.com/pinballedu

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Joe P. Said
Executive Director/Founder
Pinball EDU
http://www.pinball4kids.org

October's raffle is sold out.

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Everyone should now have received an email to confirm their entry in the raffle. Please check your spam folders if you haven't received one.

We'll be doing a LIVE drawing on Wednesday, October 14th at 4pm at Joe Said's home in Frederick, Maryland. (better internet)! You're welcome to attend in person, or you may tune in an watch LIVE online at:

http://www.twitch.tv/pinballjoe

Pinball!
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Joe P. Said
Executive Director/Founder
Pinball EDU
http://www.pinball4kids.org

Congratulations to Michael King of Euless, Texas for winning this month's pinball raffle! You have a New In Box Stern Pinball Machine coming to your door!

Also, congrats to Øyvind Lindahl for winning the Lord of the Rings Translight and Brian Webber for winning the ColorDMD! Brian you also won a translight for being this months biggest buyer!

Thank you to Stern Pinball and ColorDMD for donating the additional prizes!

A big thank you to everyone that participated in our October raffle. Your support is helping to open the first Pinball Education Center helping kids with autism.

Get a ticket for the current drawing at:
http://www.pinball-edu.org/pinball-raffle/

The latest raffle is open and Stern's contributed a Simpson's Pinball Party translight!
Get a ticket at:
http://www.pinballraffle.org

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We've already raised $10,000 from these raffles. We're using all of the money to open the FIRST Pinball Education Center in Frederick, Maryland. So far we have raised a little over $30,000 total of our $100,000 goal.

Once open our financial plan is sustainable and allows us to impact so many families with a public space. Your help is very much appreciated.

Roger Sharpe's agreed to help us achieve our goal. We're offering this gift for donations, and Roger's agreed to sign each of them, making it a real collectors item. These donations are tax-deductible.

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I've made a forum post featuring the 40th Anniversary Painting
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/40th-anniversary-he-called-the-shot-painting-w-roger-sharpe#post-2739178

On the front page of Pinside, you can also read an article Cristin Gasson wrote to Roger Sharpe. Check it out!
https://pinside.com/pinball/community/pinsiders/joesaid/stories/thank-you-roger-sharpe

Thank you everyone for your continued support! We're very excited to reach our goal!

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Joe P. Said
Executive Director/Founder
Pinball EDU Charity, 501(c)3
www.pinball4kids.org
www.pinballraffle.org

In April, I had a space that fell through for a "pop-up" arcade for the month to engage for Autism Awareness Month. I'm talking to the local powers on a regular basis. We're working on the Roger Sharpe painting right now and with that success we will have completed our Phase 1 fundraising. This will give me the comfort level to talk with immediacy to acquiring a lease and opening. Tentative dates to open will be March - June 2016.

You're reminding me that I need to connect with the FSK Mall to get a kiosk in December. I'm not too interested in placing a single machine anywhere as its more trouble than its worth. I'd be happy to meet up this week, PM me.

Please keep asking questions I'm open to any ideas.

Hey guys! Sorry for the delay in notifying you about the December raffle. I've been in discussions with paypal and it turns out raffle ticket sales are against their Terms of Service. We have a new service that we are using for December and future raffles called Rallyup! check out:

https://rallyup.com/fff2d4

I didn't make the announcement earlier as we were working out a couple details using this new service. But the campaign is LIVE!

Consider making an account with Rallyup and it will save all your information EXCEPT your credit card.

All the rules are the same, and Stern has added a SIGNED AC/DC translite!

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Also! You can check out our "Past Winners" page at:

http://www.pinball-edu.org/past-winners/

I'm still waiting on Bryan to receive his upgraded GOT LE and for the November winners to send in their photos!

This page will be regularly updated so you can verify that all participants are real people.

Best of luck and thank you for your support!

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Joe P. Said
Executive Director/Founder
Pinball EDU Charity, 501(c)3 #47-2840921
www.pinball4kids.org
www.pinballraffle.org

UPDATE: We're at 29% in the first 7 days! Thanks for the support everyone.

As usual we have a few added prizes courtesy of industry support.

www.pinballraffle.com

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Joe P. Said
Executive Director/Founder
Pinball EDU Charity, 501(c)3 #47-2840921
www.pinball4kids.org

New Winner!

Mitchell Kohler has been added to our Past Winner's wall:

http://www.pinball-edu.org/past-winners/

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Our architect has been in discussions with Frederick's Fire Marshal and it looks like our drawings are within city compliance. We're starting negotiations in the new year once I'm finished with the Pinball Done Quick event. More info here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1539593483018433/

To buy a ticket (We're over 50% sold out!):

www.pinballraffle.org

All proceeds go to benefit Pinball EDU Charity, 501(c)3 and the opening of the FIRST Pinball Education Center, located in Frederick Maryland.

Thanks for the support everyone,

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Joe P. Said
Executive Director/Founder
Pinball EDU Charity, 501(c)3 #47-2840921
www.pinball4kids.org

We've just hit 69% help us close out January.

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Bonus Prize a SIGNED AC/DC Translite!

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Joe P. Said
Executive Director/Founder
Pinball EDU Charity, 501(c)3 #47-2840921
www.pinball4kids.org
www.winapin.org

Congratulations!

Morten Søbyskogen won the New Pinball Machine!

Anthony Fumarolo won the AC/DC translite!

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Huge thanks for everyone for making this raffle a success!

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Joe P. Said
Executive Director/Founder
Pinball EDU Charity, 501(c)3 #47-2840921
www.pinball4kids.org
www.winapin.org

Announcing February! This month you have a 1 in 50 chance of winning a prize!

Tickets can be purchased at:
http://www.pinballraffle.org

Grand Prize: New In Box Stern Pro Model Pinball Machine!
Bonus prizes include:
- a signed The Walking Dead translite
- 3 season 1 packs on the Pinball Arcade by Farsight Studios!

for a total of FIVE prizes!

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Big thanks to Stern Pinball and Farsight Studios for their support of Pinball EDU and its mission to open the FIRST Pinball Education Center.

AND HUGE Thanks to all of you that support us by participating in these raffles.

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Joe P. Said
[email protected]
Executive Director/Founder
Pinball EDU Charity, 501(c)3 #47-2840921
www.pinball4kids.org

All the funds we are raising go towards opening the FIRST Pinball Education Center in Frederick, Maryland. Mission is to utilize the wonderful and unique game of Pinball for the social enrichment, skill development and education of kids and young adults. This extends into helping kids with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and working towards defining Pinball as an evidence based treatment.

I started working on this concept 4 years ago. We incorporated in December 2014 and received out 501(c)3 determination in April 2015. We've jumped through a number of city regulations and requirements that I didn't even know existed when I started. Here's a floor plan that the fire marshal of Frederick has okayed and I have a lease in hand and am negotiating with the landowner now.

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I'm hoping to be able to do a special multi-day event during the month of April for Autism awareness month. I've worked really hard to get a solid board together, and they have been very helpful with direction.

http://www.pinball-edu.org/our-team/

If you'd like to help out the current raffle is under:

www.pinballraffle.org

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The dot com is another opportunity we had to promote to a new audience and will be a separate drawing.

Thanks for all the support guys! I'm really excited about opening up this space and the raffle gives us the base we need to sustain on a monthly basis.

Let me know if you have anymore questions,

Play More Pinball,

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Joe P. Said
Executive Director/Founder
Pinball EDU Charity, 501(c)3 #47-2840921
www.pinball4kids.org

We've got 11 more tickets for February after a big series of donations and a merge.

http://www.pinballraffle.org/

Thanks guys!
-joe

Drawing will be Wednesday March 9th at 4:30pm EST on www.twitch.tv/pinballjoe

March is OPEN!

www.pinballraffle.org

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Thank you everyone! I'm excited to draw FIVE names on Wednesday!

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Joe P. Said
Executive Director/Founder
Pinball EDU Charity, 501(c)3 #47-2840921
www.pinball4kids.org

Stephen CONGRATS!

I'll usually update facebook first, follow us here:

https://www.facebook.com/pinballedu/

FIVE NAMES! Congratulations!

Bill you have won a SIGNED Stern translight! And Matt, Andrew and Anthony you have won copies of Season 1 of the The Pinball Arcade !!

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March is OPEN! Please consider the continued support, every ticket supports the FIRST Pinball Education Center and furthers our mission of working with kids and adults, especially those with autism.

Please share the url with your friends and pinball community.

http://www.pinballraffle.org

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Thank you everybody!

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Joe P. Said
Executive Director/Founder
Pinball EDU Charity, 501(c)3 #47-2840921
www.pinball4kids.org

Big high five to Ed Robertson for winning a New Stern Pinball machine!

AND

Dan Maloney won the SIGNED Game of Thrones Translight!

AND

Terry Crombez, Brad Olson, and Scott Davidson all won copies of Season 1 of the Pinball Arcade that has 18 Pinball Tables!

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April is OPEN and Stern has added a SIGNED Ghostbusters Translite!

Thank you Stern Pinball and Farsight Studios for the continued support!

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Get a ticket at:

www.pinballraffle.org

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Joe P. Said
Executive Director/Founder
Pinball EDU Charity, 501(c)3 #47-2840921
www.pinball4kids.org

Big high five to William Hughesman for winning a New Stern Pinball machine!

AND

Dylan McGarry won the SIGNED Ghostbusters Translite!

AND

Brian Webber, Scott Davidson and Troy Swope all won copies of Season 1 of the Pinball Arcade that has 18 Pinball Tables!

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May includes a 6th prize from DDpinball.com!

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Get a ticket for the latest:

http://www.pinballraffle.org

Thank you and Good luck!
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Joe P. Said
Pinball EDU Charity 501(c)3, Executive Director/Founder
www.pinball4kids.org

Hey everyone! Just got back from an amazing trip to Chicago.

Let me start by saying that Stern has been very supportive of what we are doing and I really appreciate their support. All of our sponsors in fact, Color DMD, Double Danger, Farsight and in June Tilt Hammer! have really made these raffles fun for everyone. I love love drawing multiple names out of the drum, even if only one wins a pinball machine.

We're targeted to opening a pinball summer camp in July and the public school corporation here in Frederick, Maryland has been super in helping us secure a space to host this camp.

If you haven't seen the Pinbox 3000, its an amazing product that gives kids a creative outlet that's actually playable! Its super cool and the two guys making it deserve a serious pat on the back. We're going to be using the Pinbox at the camp.

I'm in the middle of catching up here and planning my week but I will be sure to post here and send everyone an email about the drawing date.

How many people here are close to Frederick? We were invited to bring pinball to an event here called Artomatic. We have pinball themed exhibit here in Frederick that the Artomatic people donated and I would love for you guys to come check it out. Its been very beneficial in meeting people in the community and I hope it will find us a space to open the community center.

Huge thank you everyone! I've been in the pinball community for about 8 years now and it's the most awesome group of people. I'm really happy that found pinball and its part of our mission to share this awesome community.

Have a great evening everyone, and I will post back here when the drawing is going to be held.
-joe

Some of you might be getting ready to play in Pinburgh next weekend at Replayfx! I will do the drawing for July after I get back from the even!

Huge thank you to Stern Pinball, Double Danger, Tilt Hammer and Farsight Studios for their continued support!

Get at ticket at:
http://www.pinballraffle.org
Please share the url with your friends and pinball community.

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Thank you everybody!
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Joe P. Said
Executive Director/Founder
Pinball EDU Charity, 501(c)3 #47-2840921
http://www.pinball4kids.org

If you are in the drawing you will receive an email about the date and time. I don't tend to post that information anywhere as we're already posting several posts during the month. If you are not receiving the emails I would suggest to search in the "promotions" tab in gmail or possibly your spam folder.

Also you will always be able to look on my twitch.tv/pinballjoe channel for the archive of the drawing. This passed drawing we were experiencing poor internet connectivity and so I did a local recording and uploaded it to my youtube channel, you can see that video here:

I hope this answers any questions you might have, but if not please let me know how you might want me to communicate better about the drawings, winners and new announcements. My default has been email.

Thank you!
-joe

I'm hoping to do the August drawing on Sunday. Pickup a ticket here:

www.pinballraffle.org

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Thanks everyone!

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Joe P. Said
Executive Director/Founder
Pinball EDU Charity, 501(c)3 #47-2840921
http://www.pinball4kids.org

I hope everyone had a great weekend!

We're at the 50% mark for October

Pick up a ticket at:

www.pinballraffle.org

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Warm regards,
-joe