Why a card sweepstakes,
and what happens to your entry
Habitat for Humanity of Bowling Green – Warren County has been building alongside local families for decades. This is a new way to fund that work — built in the open, with a hometown card partner, and designed so you can check every claim on this page.
THE WHY
A house costs more than a bourbon raffle can raise.
Habitat BG has run good local fundraisers for years. They work — and they cap out at the size of the room. A sweepstakes that lives online can be entered from anywhere, which means a collector in Oregon can help frame a wall on Highway 185 without ever setting foot in Warren County.
Cards are the reason people show up. Homes are the reason it exists. We think you can be honest about both.
WHAT HABITAT DOES
Not a giveaway. A hand up, with a mortgage attached.
The most common misunderstanding about Habitat is that the homes are free. They are not. Families buy them — they just get terms that make ownership possible.
Homeownership
Sweat equity, then a key
Partner families earn 150 hours of sweat equity — painting, flooring, working on their own home and their neighbors’ — then buy the house with a 0% interest mortgage over roughly 25 years, with payments kept under 30% of their income.
Repairs
Rooted & Rising
Not every family needs a new house. Habitat’s repair program helps existing homeowners — often older neighbors on fixed incomes — stay safely in the homes they already have.
The ReStore
Twenty years on College Street
Habitat’s ReStore resells donated furniture, appliances and building materials at a fraction of retail. It keeps usable goods out of the landfill, gives volunteers a place to plug in, and funds the build.
Fifty homes have gone up in the Durbin Estates development alone since 2012. The next chapter is bigger — and it is what your entry pays for.
HOW IT GETS BUILT
“In everything we do at Habitat, we do empowered by the strength of collaboration.”
— Habitat for Humanity of Bowling Green – Warren County
That is not a slogan they printed for a wall. Durbin Estates got finished because the city, the state, local trades, churches, businesses and a lot of volunteers pulled in the same direction. This sweepstakes is the same shape: Habitat runs the mission, a Bowling Green card company builds the prizes, Yellowberri builds and administers the draw, and the ReStore crew is helping us break it before anyone else sees it.
THE CARD PARTNER
The Fan Stand
Joe Daley is a Bowling Green guy. A mechanical engineer by trade, a lifelong collector, and the owner of The Fan Stand — the trading-card vending company he started in 2020 after collecting old coin-op machines and watching his two sons fall for the hobby.
Those machines now live in shopping malls, youth sports complexes, airports and Kroger stores across eight states — and on four Royal Caribbean cruise ships. Touchscreens instead of keypads, an elevator system so nothing drops, acrylic cases so a pack survives the trip home. He calls it “additive to the hobby”: putting cards where people already are, so somebody new can find them.
Joe sources, grades and assembles every prize package for this sweepstakes, and donates the time. A Fan Stand machine is headed for the ReStore, too — which means the guy whose machines are on cruise ships is putting one in his hometown to help build houses.
ENTER IN PERSON
Come by the ReStore. Walk out with entries.
A Fan Stand machine is going into the Habitat ReStore — and next to it, a way to enter this sweepstakes without spending a dime. Scan the code or fill out a card at the desk and your entries go into the same ledger as everyone else’s, numbered the same way, with the same odds.
Rip a pack while you’re there if you want to. It is a good time and it supports the store. It just doesn’t change your chances — entering is always free, in the store and online.
813 College Street, Bowling Green · open to everyone, no purchase necessary
Furniture, appliances, building materials — and now a card machine.
Takes a minute. No purchase, no catch.
Numbered entries, same ledger, same odds.
WHAT TO EXPECT
How a draw actually runs
No mystery box. Here is the whole sequence, start to finish.
01
You enter
Donate for entries, or take the free entry route — the odds are the same either way. Every entry becomes a numbered row in a permanent ledger the moment it is created.
02
Entries lock
At the published deadline, entries close and the total count is frozen and posted publicly before anyone draws anything. Nothing can be added after that.
03
The draw happens live
The winning number is selected using a third-party random-draw service and shown on stream. We submit entry numbers only — never names or personal details.
04
The winner is verified, then paid out
The holder of that number is a “potential winner” until we verify eligibility. Then the prize ships insured, and the handoff gets documented. The replay and the result stay up permanently.
WHERE THE MONEY GOES
We publish the split.
Prizes are sourced through The Fan Stand. Habitat pays for them directly and keeps the books. After each event we publish what came in, what the prizes cost, and what went to the build — because a fundraiser that will not show you the math is asking for a lot of trust it has not earned.
One thing we will always say plainly: entries are not tax-deductible. When you receive a chance to win something in return for a donation, the IRS does not treat it as a charitable contribution. Anyone who tells you otherwise is guessing.
Be first in line when entries open
One email when the first event goes live. No spam, no daily nonsense.
Habitat for Humanity of Bowling Green – Warren County
Building strength, stability and self-reliance through shelter — alongside families right here in Warren County. Every sweepstakes entry helps build local homes.
Equal Housing Opportunity.
NO DONATION NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A donation will not increase your chances of winning beyond the entries received. Open to legal residents of eligible U.S. states, 18+. Entries are not tax-deductible as charitable contributions. Void where prohibited. Sweepstakes subject to the Official Rules, which govern in all respects.
This sweepstakes is not sponsored, endorsed, or administered by, or associated with, any trading-card brand, manufacturer, or grading service. Product names are used solely to identify the genuine prizes offered.
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