Silent auctions are a popular way to raise funds at a charity benefit event. You’ll find that most attendees are already familiar with how they work. But in short, at a silent auction items are placed for display and bidders sign a sheet with a name or bidder number and bidding amount. [...]

Silent Auctions are great add-ons to many types of special events. You can offer a variety of auction items and your attendees can view and bid on items anytime during the event. Silent auctions are quite flexible since you can offer just a dozen high quality items up to hundreds.
Before planning your silent [...]

The “Stockdale Family Hoedown” was held outdoors in downtown Middleton to benefit the Stockdale family. The close-knit, small community became the first city in the history of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” to create a special fund-raiser for a family featured on the program. “Extreme Makeover” and CBH Homes are joining together with many volunteers to [...]

Harry Potter fans were given a special advance screening of “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” at the Fifth Wizard’s Ball, a fund-raising event for Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan and also for the Pediatric Oncology Resource Team.
The event was held at Celebration Cinema North of Grand Rapids. They raised $140,000 for the two [...]

Many community and non profit agencies use auctions as a way to raise funds. This is a fundraising technique that has been used successfully for many years. Often live auctions are the center of attention for a special event. Silent auctions can be a natural add-on to other fundraising plans. And [...]

The Horses for Healing Barn Dance on June 9th was attended by 450 people. It is their largest fund-raiser for the year, and includes a silent auction. The Bentonville, Arkansas charity helps special needs children in Northwest Arkansas.
This year’s event was quite popular, as the charity chose to combine their fall concert with their summer [...]

The third annual Wichita Falls (TX) Youth Symphony Orchestra Play-a-Thon event was a great success, with the majority of funds being raised by the silent auction.
I’ve been to many silent auctions and this one had one of the best presentations I’d ever seen. All of the auction items were attractively packaged in [...]

Tonight is the night. After months of planning, months of meeting, and months of detailing, it’s auction time! Everything has come together: the volunteers, the items, and the guests. Now all that’s left to do is start the bidding and collect the money.
You are finally dressed for the evening, everyone’s in place, people [...]