The Georgia Lottery's mission is to responsibly maximize revenues for the educational programs we fund, and this year we are off to the most successful start in our 15-year history!
GLC sales for the first half of fiscal year 2008 reached nearly $1.7 billion and proceeds to education topped $417 million - exceeding the record set in the first half of the last fiscal year by more than $16.9 million. This brings the total raised for educational programs in the state of Georgia to more than $9.7 BILLION since the lottery's inception in 1993.
The really big winners are the students of Georgia who receive a portion of every Georgia Lottery ticket sold! Since the inception of the Lottery, more than 1 million students have had the opportunity to attend colleges and technical colleges through Georgia's HOPE scholarship program and more than 860,000 four-year-olds have a chance to get a jump start on their education by attending a high quality Pre-kindergarten program.
This extraordinary success would not be possible without your support.
While it is our mission to raise as many dollars as possible for the educational programs we fund, we always remind our players to play responsibly — it's all about fun.
Sincerely,
Margaret R. DeFrancisco
President and CEO
Georgia Lottery Corporation
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