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		<title>3 Ways To Take Advantage of the Holiday Season</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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;]]></description>
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		<title>Brimmer and May- $55,462 raised</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[3. Raising More Money]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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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		<title>Death of the Silent Auction</title>
		<link>http://fundraisingblog.cmarket.com/?p=363</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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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		<title>Drive More Donations This Holiday Season</title>
		<link>http://fundraisingblog.cmarket.com/?p=344</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaijsa Kurstin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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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		<title>Do I hear $50? $100? $500?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaijsa Kurstin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clever idea. BiddingForGood, which holds auctions for non-profits, is hosting one for Grateful Nation, the online volunteer site associated with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. BIDMC CEO Paul Levy kicked the auction off yesterday on his blog.]]></description>
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		<title>Hotels Welcome the Benefits of Streamlining the Administration of Charity Auction Requests</title>
		<link>http://fundraisingblog.cmarket.com/?p=329</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaijsa Kurstin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[6. Fundraising Auction News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When an organization such as a non-profit walks into a hotel and asks for a free donated night for a charity auction, hotels can now direct them to their website to fill out an electronic online item request form. This drives organizations to the hotel's website where they click on an item request link to easily complete their type of request. The system immediately sends the organization an email acknowledging the request and informs them of when the hotel will be back in touch. All requests that were previously handled on the phone, on paper or by mail, are now directed in one centralized electronic location. "AIRS offers the perfect solution to what has been a thorn in the side of hotel administration for decades now," says luxury hotelier Robin Brown.

AIRS notifies participating hotels of requests as they come in and then allows them to send automated approval letter or letter of decline in a timely fashion. For those requests which are denied, not all is lost for the requesting organization as within the response letter is an offer from BiddingForGood to find donated items for them. The organization will then have an opportunity to run an online auction with BiddingForGood, using supplied donated items, including many luxury brands, in efforts to raise funds for their organization.

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		<title>With the Holiday Season Just Around the Corner, BiddingForGood is Giving Lots of Reasons to Splurge …and Feel Good Doing It</title>
		<link>http://fundraisingblog.cmarket.com/?p=322</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaijsa Kurstin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>BiddingForGood -THE AUCTION MENTALITY AND THE ART OF ANONYMITY</title>
		<link>http://fundraisingblog.cmarket.com/?p=307</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaijsa Kurstin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Also known as “auction fever,” the phenomenon consists of a few basic stimuli that increase a bidder’s drive to win: rivalry, social pressures, time pressures and hype. These elements combine in a perfect ratio during a live auction; the public arena in which the competition goes down, the pressure to win in front of peers, the auctioneer egging on the fight.
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		<title>cMarket/BiddingForGood Takes the Work Out of Donating &#8211; A Top Event Planner Speaks Out on the Success of Online Auctions in Conjunction with Live Events</title>
		<link>http://fundraisingblog.cmarket.com/?p=301</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaijsa Kurstin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alex Durant, founder of Durant Consulting and a fundraising auction specialist, used cMarket/Biddingforgood to auction larger, high-priced items at the recent Food Network South Beach Wine and Food Festival for exactly that reason. “Users can place absentee bids anonymously, online, from the comfort of their own homes,” says Durant. ]]></description>
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		<title>cMarket/BiddingForGood Reports Successful Online Auction for MDA in Spite of Economy</title>
		<link>http://fundraisingblog.cmarket.com/?p=297</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaijsa Kurstin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[cMarket/BiddingForGood, the leading online auction platform solely for organizations engaged in fundraising for nonprofit causes announced its online auction platform brought in $350,000 for the Muscular Dystrophy Association.  ]]></description>
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