Grand prize.

Can you buy a $1.5 million Beverly Hills house for $180? Well, no. But you could win one for that price if you enter Century Housing's raffle.

The raffle will help finance the organization's after-school tutoring, job training, veteran housing and elderly wellness programs. "Our goal is mainly to keep these programs going," said Robbie McPherson, media relations officer.

A group of five to 10 people involved in the program selected the house in the Beverly Hills post office neighborhood, hoping to gross $3.9 million from people who want to support the programs and get a shot at winning the two-story hillside home offering panoramic views and featuring a master suite, a guest suite and an optional third bedroom/den.

"It was actually a group idea," Regina Krossy, executive director of the fund, said of the raffle. She hopes it will raise at least $1 million after prizes are awarded. Other non-profits have raffled houses, "but not to this scale at all," said McPherson. "We just thought we'd do something big to kick off the fund."

Organizers now hope to sell 22,000 tickets at $180 each, with each entry getting a shot at the house, or $1 million cash in lieu of the house, or more than $200,000 in other prizes.

The raffle is scheduled for March 4, but if organizers don't sell 15,000 tickets by Feb. 4 the grand prize will be changed to a cash value of half the amount of contest proceeds.

Century Housing was formed 30 years ago to assist people forced to move to make way for construction of the Century (105) Freeway. The organization has since become a private non-profit and the programs have expanded citywide.