Always good to call out successful usage of our platform. Brimmer and May is a private school in the Boston area that just closed out their online auction at $55,462.

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A new survey by The Conference Board and the research firm TNS shows that planned online holiday spending will be up 9 percent from last year, to $42.5 billion. According to that survey, 36 percent of people polled said they planned to spend $100 to $499 online this holiday season.

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Where can you find 2 VIP tickets to 2010 NY Fashion Week, a Paul McCartney autographed Beatles Rock band guitar, and lunch with the Mayor of Providence all while supporting a good cause? The place is BiddingForGood, an online auction platform solely for organizations engaged in fundraising for nonprofit causes. BiddingForGood has been offering consumers unique experiences on their shopping portal for years and have raised over $70 Million doing just that.

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cMarket/BiddingForGood, the leading online auction platform connecting charity auctions, marketers, and affluent consumers announced today that it has passed $70 Million in gross merchandise sales supporting non-profits across the US. Even more impressively, $22.4 Million (32%) of this number was raised just over the past 12 months. In addition, the number of charities running online auctions increased by 23% over last year showing the continued migration of silent auctions online during the economic downturn.

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cMarket/BiddingForGood, the leading online auction platform solely for organizations engaged in fundraising for nonprofit causes, announced today that Celebrity (Ellen DeGeneres and Eva Longoria) Wedding Planner, Mindy Weiss, is auctioning off an Exclusive Package with proceeds going to the Muscular Dystrophy Association, in conjunction with the 44th Annual Jerry Lewis Telethon broadcasting on Sept 6th and Sept 7th. The BiddingForGood auction will start on Sept 1st and will end Sept 15th.

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cMarket/BiddingForGood, the leading online auction platform connecting charity auctions, consumers, and commercial item donors, has successfully implemented their interactive Auction Item Request System (AIRS) to companies to manage item donor programs. This system allows for item requests to be handled directly through the company’s website, with significantly reduced administrative resources, all while giving a professional experience to the item donor. AIRS offers benefits such as good community relations, professionalism, and a tracking service bound to help a company’s bottom line.

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It was only a month ago that we crossed the threshold of $60m raised. Now a month later we’re days short of $65m raised.  To be precise right now we are at $64,788,359…….
I’m guessing we cross $65m on may 8th.  Cha ching!

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I just saw the new Harris poll suggesting that folks are giving less to fewer causes. Sorta sounds right as in soft economic times folks pull in. And it reminds me why auctions are so important in today’s environment where the demand for services is going up while fundraising dollars are going down.
Fundraising auctions are [...]

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Congratulations to Reebok and Super Bowl MVP Santonio Holmes for raising $70,200 for the Sickle Cell Anemia Disease Association of America through the online auction hosted on BiddingForGood.com  The gloves are the same Mr. Holmes wore and caught the game-winning touch down pass with, propelling the Pittsburgh Steelers to their sixth Super Bowl title, an [...]

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We love data at cMarket and I’ve been reviewing the lastest information from our auction logs. Here is what we are finding is doing best in today’s economy:

Sports tickets (avg. of 8.38 bids/item)
Travel (6.75 bids)
Organization specific e.g. lunch with the principal (6.04 bids)
Food/dining ceertificates (5.81 bids)

But if you’re really just interested in $$$ (and who [...]

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