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It’s hard to believe that just three weeks ago we were posting a blog about reaching 1,500 members, and now we’ve passed 5,000! Yep, in just over 2 months, Raffstar has gone from a brand-new start-up that no one had ever heard of, to a booming site of over 5,000 enthusiastic members. And we don’t have any plans of stopping there!

Keep telling your family, co-workers, strangers on the street, friends (and even enemies), about the coolest place on the ‘net to help support charities (oh, and to win cool prizes…). And remember as our membership continues to grow, the better the prizes will get. So keep spreading the word, congrats to all those who have won prizes so far, and thanks to all of you for doing your part to bring awareness to these causes in our effort to make the world a better place- one prize at a time.

- Nathan
The Raffstar Team

I started this post last night to announce that Raffstar had over 1,000 members sign up, only to wake up this morning and discover that we were nearing 1,500 already!

Thank you to everyone who has joined so far! As you know, Raffstar is 100% supported by advertising revenue: our partners pay for the prizes in exchange for the ads you see around the site. The larger we grow, the better prizes we can offer and the more support we can raise for the charities.

So tell your friends about Raffstar! Yes, technically you’ll have to compete with each other, but wouldn’t you rather it be over a trip to Europe than a $25 gift card?

A big ‘thank you!’ to everyone that nominated Raffstar for the Open Web Awards. Because of your votes, we’ve made it to the top 10 in the Non-Profit Causes category and have moved into the next round! During this new round, you can vote once a day from now until December 3rd.

To make things even easier, we’ve made a special page where you can vote, and have also added a widget to the home page that you can vote with. So now you can cast your votes without ever having to leave the site! Just use the home page widget or go to: http://www.raffstar.com/open-web-awards/ to enter your email address, click the vote button and an email will be sent to you with a link to verify your vote. It’s as simple as that!

So, each day when you are getting new tickets for the giveaways, remember to take a few seconds and vote for your favorite giveaway site: Raffstar.com. Then you can get back to getting tickets and winning all those free prizes! Thanks for your continued support and for all your future votes.

The Raffstar Team

Mashable’s Open Web Awards are now open for nominations! We’d so appreciate it if you are enough of a Raffstar fan to nominate us in the Non-Profit Causes category.

Here’s how to nominate (breakdown adapted from Producteev’s Ilan Abehassera’s nomination steps):

1. Go to the Mashable Open Web Awards.
2. Select the Non-Profit Causes category.
3. Enter www.raffstar.com for the URL of the company.
4. Enter your email address and click submit.
5. Finally, click the link that you receive by email to confirm your vote (and to avoid spam).

Thanks in advance for your support!

This is one for the history books people- Rachel of Maryland is officially the first ever winner of a Raffstar giveaway- having won the $25 Cinemark giftcard with lucky ticket number 129. Congratulations Rachel we hope you thoroughly enjoy your prize!

Now for the serious part: although Rachel will have a special place in our hearts as our first winner, we must be realistic and realize that there are many, many more people about to follow in her footsteps. Why, this week alone we will have a new winner EVERY day! Who knows whose name could be on the leaderboard along with Rachel? Could it be yours?

Don’t forget to check back and get tickets for each day’s new time-based giveaways, and as always: keep getting as many tickets for the other prizes as you can as well. Oh, and in case we haven’t mentioned it before… don’t forget to tell everyone you know about Raffstar! Honestly, who doesn’t like winning FREE prizes? Congrats again, Rachel, and good luck to you all.

Wednesdays Prize: $25 American Eagle Gift Card

The Raffstar Team