We’re fast approaching the holiday season. This is important for one key reason- fundraising auctions primarily tap into discretionary spending budgets vs. charitable giving. Three ways to take advantatge of this timing;

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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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The silent auction makes no sense if you are trying to raise money. To put it context- if Sotheby’s was trying to aauction off a piece of impressionist art to get the highest price do you honestly think they would even remotely consider doing it in the middle of a party? No, they would not.

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It should be a surprise to nobody that securing items has never been harder in an economy where almost every hotel, restaurant, and merchant is down year over year. With less items to be had the competitive intensity is up. What to do?
Transform your “ask” from a charitable donation to a marketing ROI. Fundraising auctions have [...]

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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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A little over a year ago we embarked on a program that we call Product Placement where we approached merchants on behalf of charities with a proposal that they would donate hundreds of items in exchange for a strong marketing ROI.  In essence we said, ‘don’t do this just to be charitable- do this because you [...]

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We just crossed a threshold on a metric that I hold dear- the amount of money we have helped worthy causes raise. As of a few days ago we have helped raise over $60 million.
And www.biddingforgood.com had over 400,000 unique visits in March.
Feels pretty good. Not a bad way to make a living.

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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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I recently did an interview with Mass High Tech. The thrust of the article was around how non-profit fundraising is in the dumps and causing more folks to explore new approaches that involve technology, in our case BiddingforGood.com. The interview prompted me to step back and ask the bigger question of what is going on right [...]

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In my role as CEO i get a steady stream of information from folks and clients. Here is what we are seeing:
-Committees are having a harder time getting the bigger items. Avg. number of auction items is running steady but catalog value is down a bit
-More folks are killing the gala and running the auction [...]

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