You want the drawing to be an event. Accordingly, find a place that can accommodate a large number of people. The car dealer's showroom is a great choice. Check if you can hold the drawing there. If you can't, then another good choice would be to hold the raffle in a school gymnasium. However, you probably can't get the car into the gym. Drum up extra interest by inviting your local paper and nearby television stations to attend the drawing. Ask a local celebrity to draw the winning ticket to entice the media to attend. A raffle not only raises money for your organization, it's also a great marketing tool. Have someone take a lot of pictures of the drawing and then put them on your website. Also send the pictures to local news media so that they can cover the story. Many U.S. states require that you file a financial statement after the raffle. If the car was worth more than $50,000, then you may also need to provide an audited financial statement. Check with your attorney for legal requirements. You may also have to file a W-2G with the IRS if the value of the car was 300 times the price of the raffle ticket. For example, you must file if the car was worth $16,000 and the ticket price was $50. You will also have to withhold taxes on the car if it is worth more than $5,000 and more than 300 times the ticket price. You can handle withholding taxes in a few ways: Ask the winner to hand over the taxes before you turn over the car. This often isn't the most practicable way, since many people won't have the money. Also, you need to tell people before they buy tickets that they'll be responsible for paying taxes. Increase the prize amount to include the taxes you'll withhold. This will eat into your profits but is fairly easy to do. Let the winner choose to take a cash equivalent and deduct the taxes from that amount.

Summary: Pick a location. Invite the news media. Take pictures of the raffle. File your financial statement. Withhold taxes on the car.

If your fitted cap is made from wool, you'll want to use cleaner specifically made for wool products. Other detergents even laundry detergents will be too harsh on the wool. Most older hats have a cardboard bill, which means soaking your hat in water to clean it will ruin the hat. If you've performed a color test on your hat and didn't get any bleeding color, you can use the spot treatment method for cleaning an older hat. If you did see some color bleed, use water only for spot cleaning.

Summary: Use special a special cleaner on a wool cap. Avoid soaking old hats.

Whether inside or outside, you'll need to get your puppy used to the fact that you won't be around all the time. You can practice indoors by leaving your puppy in one room and leaving for a few minutes, then returning. Then begin putting the dog outside for short periods of time, one to five minutes to start. You need to accept that the dog will probably cry and make a fuss while it is outside. Only leave a dog outside if you have a safe and secured fenced-in area. You must train the dog that nothing good will happen when they cry. Only let the puppy in when it is quiet and (preferably) lying quietly. If you give in and go out with the dog or allow it to return inside when it is whining, then you are giving positive reinforcement to the unwanted behavior. Leave your puppy with a distraction, like a Kong toy stuffed with wet food, to keep them occupied and to help them associate the yard with positive things. This is a big key to training a dog. Once an allotted amount of time is up (remember to start with small time increments), go outside and praise the dog profusely with attention and petting. Maybe even give the pup a treat. The dog will eventually make a connection that if it is quiet and well behaved outside, it will be rewarded for that behavior. Continue the training by lengthening the time outside until the dog remains quiet outdoors for at least an hour (as long as the weather is nice). Now the dog should be able to better deal with the separation anxiety when left outside or alone. Hopefully the pup will just quiet down and take a nap instead. Make sure the puppy always has fresh water available. There are calming products available to help puppies with being alone. For instance, the dog appeasing pheromone (D.A.P.) has been shown to calm puppies in dog obedience classes. These come in collars, sprays, wipes or diffusers.
Summary: Practice letting the puppy be alone. Give your dog praise for good behavior. Slowly increase the puppy's alone time. Consider use of a calming product.