The North Carolina Education Lottery launched 20 years ago with a great cause: to raise money for education. Fast forward to today and the lottery now raises over $1 billion a year for our schools. That adds up to an average of $3 million a day for education programs. Lottery proceeds have helped to build more than 100 new or renovated schools, provided a free preschool education for over 270,000 children, and sent over 1 million students to college with lottery-funded scholarships and grants. As the only lottery in the U.S. to increase sales every year in operation, the impact of lottery dollars continues to grow. Visit nclottery.com/education to discover what two decades of lottery play means for education in all 100 North Carolina counties.