{"id":3118,"date":"2025-09-30T09:54:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gfoundation.ca\/staging\/7325\/?post_type=news&#038;p=3118"},"modified":"2025-10-07T10:40:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T16:40:56","slug":"unbio-2-2-2-4-2","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/gfoundation.ca\/staging\/7325\/news\/unbio-2-2-2-4-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;WE NEED YOUR HELP&#8221; raffle to protect habitats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"mobileWidthFormating wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>NEW! &#8230; GFoundation members &amp; supporters can enter to win half the proceeds of an on-line 50\/50 raffle to support tree planting &amp; protection of habitats for pollinators, birds, frogs, snakes, bats, salamanders, and other animals in our wetlands.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">WIN the Christmas Grand Prize!<br>50% OF THE TOTAL JACKPOT &#8211; Income tax free<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GFoundation Executive Director Lucien Royer: \u201cThis Raffle will add to GFoundation\u2019s effort to fund an expansion of recent activies to influence decision-making that will affect the wetland protection and restoration in which we are involved.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Buy raffle tickets and win!<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rafflebox.ca\/raffle\/gffshs\"><strong>CLICK HERE to purchase your raffle ticket(s)<\/strong><\/a><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"is-style-rounded wp-block-image size-full has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" height=\"497\" src=\"https:\/\/gfoundation.ca\/staging\/7325\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/bumble-bee.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1623\" style=\"border-width:3px;border-radius:20px;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gfoundation.ca\/staging\/7325\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/bumble-bee.png 460w, https:\/\/gfoundation.ca\/staging\/7325\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/bumble-bee-278x300.png 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This raffle is the result of a three year effort to obtain a licence from the Alberta Gaming Liquor &amp; Cannabis (AGLC) that will allow us to engage in fundraising through such activities as raffles, casinos; and auctions. Gfoundation needs to supplement its traditional fundraising by appealing to more donors, if it is to accomplish its environmental protection goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Royer is asking all GFoundation supporters to make this first trial raffle a success by purchasing their own tickets, as well as encouraging others to do likewise by spreading the raffle link or instagram<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>You can help&nbsp;by sharing this QR code or the link<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"112\" height=\"112\" src=\"https:\/\/gfoundation.ca\/staging\/7325\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Ista1-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3135\" style=\"width:164px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gfoundation.ca\/staging\/7325\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Ista1-2.png 112w, https:\/\/gfoundation.ca\/staging\/7325\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Ista1-2-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 112px) 100vw, 112px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"no-wrap wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rafflebox.ca\/raffle\/gffshs\"><em>https:\/\/www.rafflebox.ca\/raffle\/gffshs<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GFoundation will receive the other half of the prize. This will enable us to reach our goals for wetland protections in the 120,000 acres of land that surround our Activity Centre in the Beaver Hills Biosphere east of Edmonton. Some of the funds raised in this raffle will also support the work of the GF Miquelon Watershed Stewardship Committe (MWSC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gfoundation.ca\/staging\/7325\/latest-news\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/gfoundation.ca\/staging\/7325\/latest-news\/\">Take me back to the News Page<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Win 50% of GFoundation raffle to protect habitats. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[],"class_list":["post-3118","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfoundation.ca\/staging\/7325\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfoundation.ca\/staging\/7325\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfoundation.ca\/staging\/7325\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfoundation.ca\/staging\/7325\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfoundation.ca\/staging\/7325\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3118"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/gfoundation.ca\/staging\/7325\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3437,"href":"https:\/\/gfoundation.ca\/staging\/7325\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3118\/revisions\/3437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfoundation.ca\/staging\/7325\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfoundation.ca\/staging\/7325\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfoundation.ca\/staging\/7325\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3118"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfoundation.ca\/staging\/7325\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=3118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}