Getting Celebrities to Help Your Non-profit Fundraiser

For instance, the Whitehorsenews reports that a supporter of a hospital’s intensive care unit for ill and premature babies had a guitar signed by esteemed musicians like Chris Martin and Ed Sheeran. The acoustic guitar was part of a two tier auction, with the first part being a silent auction via email and Facebook. The winning bid from that activity will be the reserve for the guitar on eBay, which ran over 10 days at the end of November last year.

Items like that are likely to get the highest possible bids. After all, die-hard music fans won’t pass up the chance of owning a guitar signed by such famous musicians. Indeed, celebrities boast of a certain power to bring people’s attention to a good cause.
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Promotion: Key to Non Profit Fundraising Success

There can be no doubt that the ALS Association’s ‘ice bucket challenge’ is now one of the most successful non profit fundraising campaigns in history. According to Alicia Rancilio of The Associated Press, more than $53.3 million has been raised since July 29, 2014, thanks in part to the support of famous celebrities like Oprah Winfrey and Taylor Swift. While the ALS Association itself didn’t expect the ice bucket challenge to become such a huge hit, the campaign’s success is certainly not lost on a host of other nonprofits that are now starting to rethink how they conduct their fundraisers.
According to an expert from the Ohio State University Fisher College of Business, the campaign’s popularity is largely attributed to its simplicity, i.e. participate in the challenge, then either nominate someone else to do the same or simply make a donation.
http://blog.givingworks.ebay.com/content/promotion-key-non-profit-fundraising-success

Non-profit Fundraiser is Oz-Doll-Fashion Collision

We’re pleased that, from September 4 to 14, the iconic story will once again lend its legacy to support the efforts of an eBay Giving Works non-profit fundraiser auction benefiting Habitat for Humanity.

The collectible doll creators at Tonner Doll Collection partnered with the creative non-profit fundraisers at Auction Cause to put 20 dolls on the auction block that will sport an extra-special touch: each of the finely crafted figures of the film’s leading ladies will be donning one-of-a-kind looks by 20 top fashion designers. The 22-inch reinterpretations of Dorothy, Glinda the Good Witch, and the Wicked Witch of the West will sport haute couture outfits from the studios of Marc Jacobs, Hervé Léger by Max Azria, Donna Karan Atelier, and more.
http://blog.givingworks.ebay.com/content/non-profit-fundraiser-oz-doll-fashion-collision