| Holding a charity auction can be a daunting task if you | | | | charity auction without it. The goal of finding the items |
| or your organization has never traveled down that | | | | for donation or consignment are the same, they have |
| road. There is a lot to get ready before hand to make | | | | to be items that you think your donors would want to |
| sure that it is going be a success. From the planning of | | | | purchase or be apart of. These things will be items |
| the location, to the food, to the theme & decorations, | | | | that are priced low all the way up to the items that are |
| entertainment and auction items it is enough to make | | | | hundreds of dollars. You will need to cover the |
| you go crazy. However if you come into it with a good | | | | spectrum. People will spend the money for your items |
| plan there are ways to make sure you are successful | | | | if they see the value and know at the same time it is |
| from the start of it. | | | | going to a cause they believe in. |
| It is a really good idea to make sure that your charity | | | | Of course it would be a good idea to get an |
| has enough initial capital to cover the initial costs of | | | | auctioneer, if you are having an auction. Unless of |
| setting everything up. Because although there might be | | | | course you choose to go the route of having a silent |
| a charge for the attending donors, for say the meal | | | | auction. Remember if you are going to get an |
| and entertainment, your charity will have to be putting | | | | auctioneer you are going to have to work their costs |
| down the initial investment way before your donors | | | | into your budget. An auctioneer can do a great job of |
| ever open their check book. | | | | really showing the value of the items that are out on |
| Because of this it is really important to determine your | | | | display at your event. Making the perceived value |
| budget for the event before you start trying to invite | | | | seem a lot higher than the items would have gone for |
| people to attend the event. You have to have the | | | | if they were not present. |
| budgets and your financial goals setup prior to the | | | | Make sure that you have also worked in your |
| planning stage of getting everyone else involved. Once | | | | marketing expense into your budget, because once |
| you have an ideal budget and hopefully a realistic goal | | | | you have everything else in the works, this is where |
| in mind for the funds you intend on raising, it is now | | | | you start to really get out there and build the hype for |
| time to start assigning tasks for your team to do, there | | | | your event. The whole effort up till now will be |
| is just to much for it to be an open field when setting | | | | worthless if not a person shows at the event being |
| everything in place. Some people will be better than | | | | held. So promote, promote, promote and from there |
| others at certain tasks, realize this prior assigning the | | | | get ready for the night of the event, where you and |
| tasks and use those people in the way that will best | | | | your team will long for sleep by the time it is all said |
| benefit them for their time involved. | | | | and done. |
| Of course after all is rolling and you have your goals in | | | | Good luck as silent or live auctions can be a lot of fun |
| mind, it would be a good idea to get some items to | | | | and profitable, but they can also be really stressful |
| auction off at the event, right? Wouldn't be much of a | | | | when making sure all of the pieces fit well. |