Treasure Beach Foundation’s 7th—and final--annual villa raffle starts today.

This is the biggest, best raffle we’ve ever run. Buy one ticket and have five chances to win!
Yes, one ticket gives you the opportunity to win one of five fantastic one-week vacation packages.

Tickets are still only $25 for one or five for $100. They can be purchased online (in any currency) or via check (U.S. checks only). All money must be received by December 17, so you need to move quickly. The winning tickets will be drawn December 18.



Here are the places in which you can stay if you’re the lucky holder of one of the five tickets drawn:
• Rainbow Tree Villa — See www.RainbowTreeVillas.com (up to 10 people in 5 bedrooms)
• LaSirena Villa — See www.VRBO.com/87933 (up to 6 people in 3 bedrooms)
• Doubloon Villa — See www.DoubloonVilla.com (up to 8 people in 4 bedrooms)
• Taino Cove — See www.TainoCove.com (up to 4 people in 2 bedrooms)
• Sunset Resort & Villas — See www.SunsetResort.com (up to 4 people in 2 bedrooms)

That’s not all. In addition to a week’s stay in a wonderful beachfront villa, all winners will receive:
• Transfers to and from the airport in MoBay for your group (courtesy of Treasure Tours, Taino Cove, and Aman Parchment)
• A sunset cruise for your group by Dennis Abrahams
• A one-hour on-site massage by Joshua Stein
And there are additional things that will go to each winner—anything from a gourmet dinner (with wine) for four at Marblue to 10 pounds of fish to be cooked by your villa staff.

Please see our website (www.TreasureBeachFoundation.org) for full details on the raffle, prize offerings, and on Treasure Beach Foundation.

To buy tickets online or to make a donation, please go to https://npo1.networkforgood.org/Donate/Donate.aspx?npoSubscriptionId=3962

To buy tickets or make a donation with a check (U.S. only; no money orders or travelers checks), please make it payable to Treasure Beach Foundation and mail it to Karen Kennedy; 11124 Rich Meadow Drive; Great Falls, Virginia 22066, USA. Please be sure to include both your e-mail address and telephone number so we can contact you if you win. Due to holiday season mail delays, we urge you to use the online option.

100% of the net proceeds will go to our scholarship fund. Your participation will help us continue to fulfill our educational commitments to the youth of Treasure Beach.

Thanks to the Treasure Beach Foundation for all their hard work on the raffles and the scholarships they fund. We (Rebecca and Eric) wholeheartedly support their efforts and are about to buy our tickets. You should too.

Here are what the last two winners have had to say about their free week (if the dates are wrong, please let us know)
2011 Raffle Winners
2009 Raffle Winners
2008 Raffle Winners
2006 Winners


For those who don't know about the Treasure Beach Foundation and all its good efforts, here are links to threads outlining their work with scholarships and more (if anyone else finds more links, please post them in follow up messages). Of course, their own web site has a lot of good information as well.
2011 Scholarships Awarded
2010 Scholarships Awarded
2009 Scholarships Awarded
2008 Scholarships Awarded
Follow up on Scholarship winners
Follow up on Scholarship winners
TB Foundation given special award by Hampton School for their scholarship support
TB Foundation newsletter

We encourage you to forward this information to as many people as you can. You can copy the text above and also download and attach and the image and put it all in an email. Please include a link to this page:
http://webtonic.info/cgi-bin/discus_tbnet/show.cgi?tpc=1584&post=81199

Again, special thanks for the Treasure Beach Foundation and all its supports for the opportunity they provide to the youth of Treasure Beach.

-TBNet

Incredible. I think the most places they've ever offered was two. I repeat repeat repeat repeat repeat incredible!

WOw kAREN YOU WERE NOT KIDDING! A TRUE TESTAMENT TO THE GIVING SPIRIT OF THIS COMMUNITY,NOT ONLY THIS YEARS SPONSERS BUT PAST YEARS ALSO.WOULD LIKE TO ALSO LIKE TO THANK YOU AND YOUR HUSBAND FOR YEARS OF HARD WORK TO SUCH A GREAT CAUSE,YOU HAVE TRULY MADE A DIFFERANCE. KEVIN&PAT FAIR FREQUENT VISITORS FROM MN.

I love this raffle. It is amazing and the cause is wonderful. Thank you kindly to Treasure Beach Foundation for helping the children. I must selfishly add that I really want us to win one of the vacation packages.

These students are so very worthy of your support. Here’s an example.

One scholarship student who is taking 18 different subjects and doing extremely well told me:

“Being a member of the Treasure Beach Scholarship Foundation has helped my family entirely. With school fees and materials so expensive, I don’t see how we could afford it without the help of this God sent programme. We are truly grateful and appreciative of all the help. May God continue to bless and protect each person involved in this wonderful programme.”

What she didn’t say—but I learned from speaking to her Mother—is that her Mother is a serious diabetic with high blood pressure. Without her daughter being on a Treasure Beach Foundation scholarship, she often could not afford the cost of her lifesaving medications.

To help this young lady and our other scholarship students, please go to www.TreasureBeachFoundation.org.

The people who donate things for this raffle should be rewarded with more than thanks. I would suggest our readers go out of their way to give them business. I was taught one hand washes another and together they wash the face and this is how I try to live.

Is there a certain number of tickets that will be sold?

Thanks to the Treasure Beach Foundation's 2011 Villa Raffle, and a little bit of luck, 8 of my closest friends and I enjoyed a full week of rest and relaxation at the Rainbow Tree Villa earlier this year. It was a week that we will never forget - full of beautiful sunsets, delicious food, impeccable hospitality, unforgettable experiences.

We hope you will join us in supporting the outstanding students of Treasure Beach by purchasing raffle tickets for this year's extra special raffle!

We have no specific number of tickets to be sold (no minimum or maximum), though we would like to sell as many as possible to get as much as we can for the students of Treasure Beach. If you are trying to figure your odds, Cap, I can tell you that we end up selling fewer tickets than you might imagine; therefore, I believe your chances of winning are far better than you would encounter in most raffles.

Hi Karen
Glad to support the TB community , thanks for your good work in organizing this opportunity for young students .
I have gone to the network for good life site and made my donation . Does this doantion automatically generate tickets for the villa draws? It appears on the site that this is only a donation although the ticket box is also indicated it says nothing about how the tickets will be sent and seems to indicate that I have made a donation only . Could you please clarify for me if I am in the draw. Many thanks

LaSirena Villa is one of five fabulous places offered in our 2012 Villa Raffle. Only $25 buys a ticket that gives you five chances to win a one-week vacation package for 4 to 10 people. LaSirena can comfortably accommodate 6 in its three beautiful bedrooms.

Here's one of LaSirena's three bedrooms

For more information on LaSirena, go to www.vrbo.com/87933.

For more info on the Villa Raffle or to buy your ticket, go to www.treasurebeachfoundation.org.

Susan, thanks for your ongoing support.

We got notification you had purchased tickets late last night. If you look at the computer-generated receipt you got from our secure credit card processor (toward the bottom), it says "Custom Question Response" which asked if you wanted to make a donation or purchase tickets. Yours will say "tickets."

The processor notifies us via an e-mail. Then it is our responsibility to send you the tickets. The first batch, including yours, will be in the mail a week from today.

Even if tickets are not received by the purchasers by when we do the drawing--and they can't all possibly be received because we cut off receiving money at midnight December 17 and then draw the winning tickets on December 18th, if tickets have been purchased the stubs (Our half of the tickets) are included in the drawing.

I hope this helps.

Thanks again for caring about the students.

Thanks Karen . I know how much work this must be and I applaud your dedication .

This year we have some livelier places included in our raffle.

One is Sunset Resort & Villas, offering you not only lovely oceanfront rooms but a huge pool, a restaurant, and a lounge. Your spacious room will be equipped with satellite TV and a mini fridge. (Sunset is offering two adjacent oceanfront rooms for the winner.) This is augmented by a delicious gourmet dinner for four (with wine) at the fabulous Marblue restaurant, a sunset boat cruise with Dennis Abrahams, round-tip airport transfers by Treasure Tours, and an onsite massage for one person in your group by Joshua Stein. All in all, this is a great one-week vacation package for a lucky winner.

Go to www.TreasureBeachFoundation.org for full information and to buy your tickets.

The large pool area at Sunset

BUY TICKETS. SUPPORT THE CHILDREN. WIN A GREAT PRIZE. WE DID. IT WAS GREAT. BUY MORE TICKETS. WE WILL.

Great idea to include some hotels. Thanks for doing this.

For your pleasure, another of Treasure Beach's boutique hotels is on our list this year.

Win a one-week vacation package at Taino Cove, and you'll receive gracious accommodations for four, round-trip airport transport, a daily continental breakfast, an onsite massage, a sunset boat cruise, and a delectable dinner for four (including wine) at Marblue.

Check out this package at www.TreasureBeachFoundation.org.

Taino Cove's entrance

I am pretty new to Treasure Beach and I will be entering the raffle. I do have a question about the cost of education. If school is free is Jamaica as I think it is, why does it cost to send a child to school? Please excuse me if I am asking something that is obvious and everyone else knows.

Yes, the tuition was finally waived by the Jamaican government several years ago.

However, students still need to pay for:

• Transportation (no free school bus)
• Uniforms
• Shoes
• Books
• School Supplies
• Lab Fees
• Lunches
• Snacks
• Activity Fees
• Insurance
• External Examination Fees
• And More

Anyone who’s been to Treasure Beach knows that few residents can count on any sort of steady income. Therefore, it is often a matter of deciding whether or not educating one child is more important than the entire family’s food and medicines. This is an awful decision to have to make--and why students often attend only on the days the family can come up with the money.

This is why we have awarded so many competitive scholarships. Our scholarships pay for all the above items.

Doubloon Villa is yet another place you can win in this year's Villa Raffle. It is spacious and gracious--and boasts four bedrooms, a gorgeous pool, beautiful gardens, and a moon roof where you can sit and enjoy beautiful views while sipping cocktails. Though secluded, Doubloon is very close to where the action is in Treasure Beach. This wonderful offering includes round-trip airport transport, a sunset cruise for up to 8, an onsite massage for one especially lucky person, and more.

Please go to www.DoubloonVilla.com for more info on this special villa or www.TreasureBeachFoundation.org for details on the Villa Raffle.

Doubloon's Pool

All winners of this year's Villa Raffle--and all the guests staying with them--will be able to experience the beauty of a sunset cruise, courtesy of Dennis Abrahams. If his Shallow Bar is in the water (this depends upon the season), and the water is sufficiently calm, you'll get to go on it. It leaves from right near Eggy's at about 4 p.m. and returns as the sun sets. The Shallow Bar goes east (the opposite direction from Floyd's), allowing you to see a portion of Treasure Beach from the water that most have never seen. You can also climb the cliffs and jump, snorkel, swim, or merely sit and enjoy yourself as you take photos. Yes, as the name implies, the Shallow Bar does have a bar aboard.

If the Shallow Bar is out of the water or the seas are somewhat rough, Dennis will instead treat the winners to the same cruise in his boat.

Either way, it's bound to be a lot of fun.

Tickets are only $25 each and may be purchased securely via credit card: www.treasurebeachfoundation.org

The Shallow Bar

I know this isn't the point but I am loving these pictures. I have never been on the Shallow Bar and now I want to go even though there is NO WAY I would do that cliff jumping.

PLEASE let me win the raffle.

For Faye and the others who are enjoying these photos, here's a typical Treasure Beach sunset.

Now, please buy your raffle ticket if you haven't done so, This is the very last villa raffle--and the final fundraiser we are having to raise money to keep educating the youth of Treasure Beach.

Please go to www.treasurebeachfoundation.org TODAY

The first batch of tickets got mailed today.

Will the first few people who receive theirs please post here and tell us your city and state, or city and province, or country.

Thanks very much.

It would be a VERY Happy Christmas if my ticket got selected.

If you win a stay at Rainbow Tree Villa, you'll get marvelous accommodations for up to 10. Plus, you'll have the loving attention of Miss Laura, Miss Jenny, and Mr. Calvin in an extremely large villa on 5-1/2 acres of very private land that stretches from the road to the beach. Rainbow Tree has a large pool and deck from which you have wonderful views of the sea.

Tickets are only $25 each, and all proceeds go to educate the youth of Treasure Beach. www.TreasureBeachFoundation.org.

Rainbow Tree's Veranda--a perfect place to relax

Finally managed to scrape together the cost of my tickets! My money's super tight these days, but I couldn't let the last raffle go by without finding a way to add to the scholarship fund ... and win a chance for a week in my home away from home!

My money is tight too but I am going to buy at least one ticket for the same reason as Stacie.

money tight...25 to TB scholarship...all good mon

You have the right idea Daniel. That $25 has the power to help change a child's life forever.

Tickets get selected on the 18th. How and when do the winners get notified.

When do the winners have to book and stay? Is it valid for a year, from win date?

If you have not yet bought a ticket for the villa raffle, we ask you to read what students and their parents recently said about the scholarship program you support through this raffle. 100% of the proceeds go to the scholarship fund.

“For the past six years I have been a part of this scholarship programme. It has served me not only as a source of financial support but as a motivator: that hard work brings great rewards. I am very grateful to this Foundation and to all the many kind donors who have made such an invaluable contribution to my education. I will never forget you all. May God bless and keep you. Thanks a million!”

(from the mother of a student): “Thank you very much for the scholarship for without the scholarship I don’t think my daughter would have attended school regularly. I am thankful for all the organization has done and I appreciate it very much. God bless you. Thank you.”

“Once more, I'd just like to say THANK YOU!! You don't know how much you've impacted my life, and the many others that have been blessed by what you are doing. I continue to strive for excellence, as my gratitude towards you grows each day.”

“I am very thankful for the scholarship because it has helped a lot and made things easier on my parents in a time of need. My parents have three children to take care of and provide for and just knowing one of us is being taken care of and not having to stress over school things and wondering how they are going to send me to school each term helps a lot.”

“It has been such a great opportunity to be a part of this scholarship program. It has helped a lot through situations, and I am grateful. Also, being a part of this program pushes me to excel in anything I do as much as possible—which is a wonderful thing.”

(from the father of a student): “I think this program is the best thing that could ever happen to us, and as a father of one of the students, I truly want to say from the bottom of my heart: Thank you all so very much and may God continue to bless you all.”

“I am grateful for this scholarship as it has helped me a lot. Financially, it has allowed my parents to freely provide for my basic needs. Also, academically it has helped. I am motivated to work hard to achieve my goals as I know I need to get a certain average to stay on the scholarship. Finally, I am proud of myself to know that I have the ability to be on a scholarship. I am elated and will continue to work hard to achieve my goals.

Please buy your ticket today.

www.TreasureBeachFoundation.org

Anxious: I will do my utmost to reach each winner, first by telephone--and then via e-mail--on December 18th. Even if I am not successful in doing so, the names of the winners will be published here late on December 18th, assuming the Webmasters are willing and able to do so.

Jeannie: All places can be booked on a space-available basis. One place will allow a stay between May 1 and December 14, 2013. Four of the five will allow stays up through November 30, 2013; depending upon particular circumstances, the owner may allow you to book for a date later than indicated. (Please go to www.treasurebeachfoundation.org to see a copy of the flyer; it specifies the dates for each property.)

What these students said is inspiring. I am proud to contribute what I can to this fine cause and wish I could do more.

Each time a raffle ticket is purchased, 100% of the proceeds goes directly to our scholarship fund.

The villa owners and other members of the Treasure Beach community have given what they could to put together 5 fantastic vacation packages because they know how vital it is to support our beautiful children--and give them the opportunity to fulfill their potential. Won't you also do what you can to help--TODAY.

Doubloon Villa's Seaside Garden

Hi Karen,
Our tickets came in the mail Saturday Dec. 15th.
We are in Wisconsin. Thank-You

LaSirena is a wonderful custom-designed and custom-built villa with unique architectural and design touches inspired by the American Southwest. It has three large bedrooms, a huge living room, and an all-star kitchen where delicious meals are made. Step outside and there's a beautiful plunge pool, not to mention the beach.

The deadline for raffle tickets is midnight, US Eastern time, Monday, December 17. Buy yours now or miss your opportunity to win one of five wonderful one-week vacation packages. Only $25. www.TreasureBeachFoundation.org.

LaSirena's plunge pool at sunset

My raffle tickets were in my mailbox today - NE Wisconsin. I'm feeling lucky!!

You'll miss your opportunity to buy one or more Villa Raffle tickets unless you do it today. Remember: 5 different, wonderful one-week vacation packages are being offered.

The deadline is midnight tonight, US East Coast time. Buy your ticket online--securely--by going to www.TreasureBeachFoundation.org.

Winners will be announced here Tuesday evening. If you haven't bought a ticket, there is no way you can possibly win.

You'll never be too old to enjoy Treasure Beach.

Truer words have never been said, "You'll never be too old to enjoy Treasure Beach"!
It takes one back to a younger time, I swear, and I know, because it does for me every visit. So many good people. So many real-life experiences there.

we got our tickets! don't miss out people! get your tickets