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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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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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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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.

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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.

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