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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It is well known that travel items are of the most sought items when it comes to fundraising auctions. In order to maximize your fundraising revenue, try to find unique travel experiences and/or all inclusive travel packages. I find that when bidding on travel in efforts to raise funds, people bid because they want to support a cause, are getting a great deal, or are getting a truly unique experience that can’t be found or purchased anywhere else.

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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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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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This season, charitable online auctions powered by The cMarket Network are presented (heh) with a unique opportunity:
To exploit BiddingForGood.com and appeal to online holiday shoppers in order to make more money in their online auctions! Are you running an auction with a close date falling between November 5th and December 5th?
What holiday [...]

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Everyone does it. As a new introduction is made, business cards are exchanged. It’s de rigeur in the business world… why not in the fundraising world?

What if you could harness this concept to promote your online fundraiser?

While robust HTML-Email Tools can be the cornerstone of your promotional efforts, have you considered using basic, printable promotional material?

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Lately there’s been a bunch of buzz in the charitable online auction universe regarding what to call the non-online fundraising event:
Is it a Gala? A Gaveled Auction? What about silent event items?
Surely there are many non-profit organizations out there that don’t have that Black-Tie gala, but do have some form of a silent auction event [...]

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If you’re lucky enough to get a donation from a famous Major League Baseball player such as David Ortiz, you have a great story that the media will love to tell the world.

But even if you don’t have that sexy celebrity item in your catalog, you can package your auction in a way that will appeal to shoppers.

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Events of the last few weeks have highlighted a number of significant issues with the US economy that will likely impact anyone who is conducting a fundraiser in the next 12 months.

These events signal systemic change and will impact anyone who strives to extract dollars from consumers/donors.

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Running an online auction just got cooler.
In an earlier post about adding videos to an online auction, we pointed out that due to current web standards and how our HTML tool handles objects (e.g. videos, Flash movies), we could not allow our users to enter videos into article texts.
With cMarket’s most recent upgrade, version 4.4, [...]

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