Help Support Playworks Programming at our Annual FUNdraising Event!

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Please join us on November 12th for our 8th Annual Rock, Paper, Scissors Tournament.

We’re putting the fun in FUNdraiser Thursday, November 12th, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. at the Market Lounge in the Financial District.

A standard ticket offers complimentary appetizers, a cash bar, an awesome silent auction, and our annual Rock, Paper, Scissors Tournament. The standard ticket enters you in the tournament and gives one 4th/5th grade girl the opportunity to participate in the Playworks Massachusetts Girls’ Basketball League for free.

The winner of the Rock, Paper Scissors Tournament will receive four tickets to a Boston Celtics game in December.


Prizes for Raffle and Silent Auction include, but are not limited too:

  • One night stay at The Seaport Hotel (breakfast included)
  • 4 Red Sox tickets, a tour of the Red Sox Radio Network broadcast booth, and Batting Practice Viewing at Fenway Park during the 2016 regular season. Mutually agreed upon game, Yankees games not included)
  • $125 Gift Card to Marathon Sports
  • 2 Ski Lift Passes to Wachusetts Mountain
  • One stay at The Lenox Hotel
  • Odyssey Boston Dinner Cruise for 2
  • Jillian’s Bowling Party
  • Jillian’s Pool (Billard Party)
  • Two Showcase Cinemas Deluxe Movie Tickets
  • $70 Gift Card to Paint Bar
  • $25 Gift Card to the Burren in Davis Square
  • 4 Museum of Fine Arts tickets
  • 2 Tickets to the New England Aquarium
  • 6 Class Pack for Everybodyfights (George Foreman II Boxing Clud)
  • Matteo Gulla Boston Print http://www.gullastudio.com/the-studio/
  • Flywheel Spin Studio Class Pack

Thank you to our generous event partners!

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