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   For a Fourth year Community Action Marin, a San Rafael-based nonprofit, is offering a raffle to help fund its programs for the poor by offering raffle ticket buyers the chance to win a "dream home" priced at $2 million.  
   Community Action Marin - which operates 15 programs that focus on mental health services, early childhood development, HIV/AIDS, food programs, the homeless and more. "The fact that the local anti-poverty agency is raffling off a $2 million house is a little ironic," said Gail Theller, the agency's exective director.  But cuts in funding by the Marin Community Foundation, the federal government and the state government left Community Action Marin with little choice. 
   The nonprofit lost about $200,000 a year in funding from the Marin Community Foundation when the foundation's trustees decided to take money away from ongoing programs so they could finance new initiatives. In addition, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger eliminated funding for a homeless program that served the mentally ill when he sliced $703 million in health spending from the budget. That move cut $500,000 a year from Community Action Marin's budget.

Marin Dream House Raffle article in the Marin Independent Journal