– Fundraising Events

2023 Projects

2023 Spring FUNDrive!

Another Spring FUNDrive and another success. Our club collected soft goods, hard goods (items smaller than a microwave) and LOTS of books. All these items were processed to SAVERS on Earth Day 🌎 April 22, 2023.  Here’s a recap:  Clothing: 1466 lbs – Miscellaneous: 918 lbs – Books: 1195 lbs –  Other large items: 9 pcs

Thanks to everyone’s help in cleaning out their closets and spreading the word to family and friends, and with the projected bonus of collecting so many books, we were able to raise $495.20+.

This project benefits several of the other SACC projects we have going on through out the year. Our project leader, Anna Patton, will go through each bag or box donated and will pull out any other item that could be used for our various projects. Some examples of these are new clothing with tags for Emerge Center for Domestic Violence, gently used bras to the Gospel Rescue Mission for Homeless Women, school age clothing for the Marana Clothing Bank and many more.

A big shout out to all of our volunteers including Anna Patton, Patti Pace, David Spear, Kendrick Heincy, Larry Bauer, and our trailer donator and tower Tom Bivens!

The Jim Click Millions for Tucson Raffle 2023 is here!

Tickets are $25 each. ALL of the money (100%) collected for these Click raffle tickets stays with SACC Pioneers to support our local community projects and partners. We are encouraging all our members and their friends and family to support this fundraiser. You can buy your tickets, support Pioneering in the community, and feel good knowing your chances to win are better than the LOTTO!

For more details, please contact Priscilla Lujan at (520) 298-5400 or via e-mail at palujan@q.com.


2022 Projects

2022 Jim Click Raffle – Results

The Jim Click Millions for Tucson Raffle 2022 has now ended. The drawing was held on Thursday, December 15 and the winners are:

Mary Robidoux of Tubac won the third prize of $5,000 (ticket sold by Tubac Rotary); Arletta Gray of Green Valley won the second prize of two plane tickets (ticket sold by Saddlebrooke Rotary); and Peter Steinert of Phoenix will receive a 2022 Ford Maverick Lariat Hybrid (with an MSRP of $33,385) (ticket sold by Arizona Trail Association)

Many thanks to all of you who participated in the 2022 Jim Click Millions for Tucson Raffle.  The raffle raised nearly $1.4 million dollars for the community.  Jim Click donates all monies raised to the participating nonprofit organizations.  Our So. AZ. Telecom Pioneers raised $1925 dollars this year through Jim Click.  This money will go to support the many Pioneers projects in our community.

Jim Clicks 2023 raffle will be staring in February 2023.  I look forward to advising you of the upcoming prizes.

Priscilla Lujan
SACC – Fundraising Chairperson

2022 November Extravaganza Luncheon

A HUGE thank you to everyone who came out and enjoyed our November Extravaganza luncheon held at the Christ Church United Methodist fellowship hall. It was a roaring success. A great time was had by everyone and the basket raffle was a BIG hit. A heartfelt thank you to our fundraising team who gathered all the items and made such beautiful baskets and our luncheon duo who handled all the details and found us such a lovely location to come together again. We are excited to do the extravaganza again next year!

Fundraising Team: Priscilla Lujan, Anna Patton, Patti Pace, Kathy Kisro, Nancy Byers.

2022 Fall FUNDrive

Another Fall FUNDrive and another success. Our club collected 1413 pounds of soft goods and 1307  pounds of hard goods (items smaller than a microwave) and processed all these items to SAVERS November 2022. Thanks to everyone’s help in cleaning out their closets and spreading the word to family and friends, we were able to raise $547.50+.

This project benefits several of the other SACC projects we have going on through out the year. Our project leader, Anna Patton, will go through each bag or box donated and will pull out any other item that could be used for our various projects. Some examples of these are new clothing with tags for Emerge Center for Domestic Violence, gently used bras to the Gospel Rescue Mission for Homeless Women, school age clothing for the Marana Clothing Bank and many more.

A big shout out to all of our volunteers including Anna Patton, Patti Pace, David Spear, and our faithful trailer tower Larry Bauer!

2022 Foothills Marketplace Fundraising Event

On October 1st, the SACC fundraising committee participated in the Foothills Marketplace community event held on the Eastside of the Foothills Mall in NW Tucson. We gathered together to sell items that were donated to us by our generous members! All together we raised $180+ for our club to use as a part of our community projects that we have going throughout the year. A special thank you to our dedicated committee members and volunteers for their assistance with the set-up and pack-up for all the wonderful goods!

(Thank you Volunteers! Anna P, Patti P, Amber P, Doug C, David S, Kathy K, Louise R, Nancy B, Pricilla L)

2022 Spring FUNDrive

A big CONGRAULATIONS to everyone who helped with this years Spring FUNDrive. We had the best collection event to date. Our club collected 1745 pounds of soft goods and 822 pounds of hard goods (items smaller than a microwave) and processed all these items to SAVERS at the end of April 2022. Thanks to everyone’s help in cleaning out their closets and spreading the word to family and friends, we were able to raise $654.32.

This project actually benefits several of the other SACC projects we have going on through out the year. Our project leader, Anna Patton, will go through each bag or box donated and will pull out any other item that could be used for our various projects. Some examples of these are fabric for Hug-A-Bears, yarn for Lap Robes, new clothing with tags for Emerge Center for Domestic Violence, gently used bras to the Gospel Rescue Mission for Homeless Women and many more.

A big shout out to all of our volunteers including Anna Patton, Patti Pace, Ayla Patton, David Spear, Kendrick Henesey and Larry Bauer.

2021 Projects

2021 Jim Click Raffle – Results

Many thanks to all of you who participated in the 2021 Jim Click Millions for Tucson Raffle.  The raffle raised nearly $1.4 million dollars for the community.  Jim Click donates all monies raised to the participating nonprofit organizations.  Our So. AZ. Telecom Pioneers raised $2150 dollars this year through Jim Click.  This money will go to support the many Pioneers projects in our community.

This year Mr. Click has graciously agreed to donate an additional $1000 each to all 501c3 organizations who participated by picking up tickets and returning sold stubs in the 2021 raffle.

Thanks to all that supported this raffle; because of you we actually raised $3150 to support our Pioneer projects.

Jim Clicks 2022 raffle will be staring on February 18, 2022.  I look forward to advising you of the upcoming prizes.

Priscilla Lujan
Fundraising Chairperson

2021 FALL FUNDrive

WOW! This year’s fall FUNDrive was a smashing success. Thanks to your generous donations to our FUNDrive, we were able to accomplish the following:

  • Raised $332.15 selling soft goods and small household items to SAVERS.
  • Raised $115.00 selling donated items online via Facebook Marketplace.
  • GRAND TOTAL FUNDRAISED:      $447.15

A HUGE thank you to all our members. So many people donated and collected from their friends, family and neighbors. This enabled us to raise a lot of money for the club. A special thank you goes out to our project leader Anna Patton and her dedicated helpers (Patti Pace, Tom Bivens, David Spear, Kendrick Heincy, and Ayla Patton). Without the help of everyone, this project wouldn’t have taken off!

2021 Spring FUNDrive

This years Spring FUNDrive was a great success. Our project leader Anna Patton was able to get a covered trailer donated to use for a few weeks while we collected, sorted and delivered the items. We were able to collect enough items to sell to SAVERS for $212.10. Before turning over the items, we do take the time to try and find anything that can be used in other projects. We were able to find several new with tags clothing items to donate to the Emerge! Domestic Violence shelter. Thank you to all of our volunteers, Patti Pace, David Spear, Kendrick Heincy, Amber Patton, Doug Currier and Anna Patton

2020 Projects

Holiday FUNDrive 2020

A big thank you to everyone who donated items for our Holiday FUNDrive. We were able to successfully collect enough items to sell to SAVERS and earn $197 for our club. Before turning over the items, we do take the time to try and find anything that can be used in other projects. We were able to find several new with tags clothing items to donate to Emerge! Domestic Violence shelter, lap robes for our seniors project and some new long johns that will be donated to a local men’s homeless shelter. A special thank you to our young volunteers (Amber Patton, Doug Currier, Melissa Reich, Julian Maldonado and Ayla Patton) as well as our tried and true veterans (Patti Pace, Priscilla Lujan, David Spear and Anna Patton). Their help (and more importantly their muscles, were a huge plus with this project). We already have plans for our spring FUNDrive. The SACC really enjoys this and we encourage you to start your spring cleaning after the holidays so we can meet our new goal of $300.

SACC 2020 Spring FUNDrive


We tried a new fundraising project this year that was lots of work but very successful. We spent the first 2 months gathering soft-goods like clothing and linens in an effort to raise $200. SACC is proud to announce that with your help, we reached this goal! Thank you to all our volunteers and a special thank you to our truckload team: Tom Bivens, Larry & Kathy Bauer, Patti Pace, Anna Patton and David Spear.

2019 Projects