SPCA sold all 10,000 tickets in its first ever lottery in 27 days. Five things other charities can take from it.
More than $1.8 million in prizes across four verified charity lotteries, from a $1.17m home to a classic RX-7. Here's what's on and when each closes.
NZ's lottery rules require a supervised, publicly open draw. Those safeguards were built for a barrel of balls, not software.
NZ law requires every Class 3 lottery draw to be independently witnessed. Here's what that actually looks like.
There's a real, researched difference between a habitual donor and someone who only responds to a raffle, and most charities have never noticed.
Buying a raffle ticket is actually four separate wins at once, including one that reaches donors traditional giving never does.
Powerball moved to a 14-ball draw. Here's how the odds stack up against Lotto, Strike, and three of NZ's biggest charity lotteries.
Nominal donations are up. Once inflation is stripped out, real giving is flat.
Licensed charity lotteries weren't even on the survey's list of options.
NZ charities running a social enterprise fell from 35% to 15% since 2022. Here's why a lottery partnership isn't the same risk.
40% of NZ charities have less than a year of reserves and secured funding combined.
There's a lot of this around at the moment — and a live DIA inquiry shows exactly what goes wrong when it's done badly.
The actual answer, and exactly where the size limits sit before you need a licence.
A short history of a rule that only became permanent in November 2024.
There's no single "X% to charity" rule. Here's what DIA actually requires, sourced directly.
A few structural, avoidable reasons a properly licensed raffle can still fall short.
The behavioural economics and NZ giving culture behind why charity lotteries work so well here.
A joint charitable undertaking between partner charities, not a paid operator taking a cut.
What running a charity lottery actually takes, behind a single ticket-purchase click.