Each year, Kentucky state employees are asked to donate and/or help run fundraisers to benefit the Kentucky Employees Charitable Campaign (KECC). The charities that get the proceeds are the Christian Appalachian Project, Community Health Charities of Kentucky, Easter Seals Kentucky, Prevent Child Abuse-Kentucky, United Way of Kentucky, and WHAS Crusade for Children.

I work for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet in Frankfort. Some of my fellow anglers and I would like to organize a tourney to benefit the KECC this year. We have been having some fun this year with co-worker tourneys, but what we envision will be much bigger in order to make a significant contribution to the charities.

I need some help with some details. I would greatly appreciate any help/advise you might offer. This will be an open tourney, but we are thinking to limit it to a certain number of boats so that it remains manageable. Some of you who have helped organize a charity tourney or particiapted in one may have some good ideas.

Location: Guist/Taylorsville/Herrington?
Number of boats/entries? [perhaps 50 boats?]
Entry fee amount? [We were thinking $60/boat]
Payback? [We were thinking 50%... this is for charity... ]
How to get sponsors?
Should donated prizes be a part of the payout or should they be raffled?
Should we try to get some food donated so people can eat after they come off the water?
Anybody have a scale we could borrow or should we find a bathroom scale that reads to the tenth of a pound?

This will probably be in September.

Thanks in advance,

John