Donation Procurement Retail 
Community Boost
MAY 13, 2025
This website should be linked to your main website for easy access but having a second, event-specific site gives you greater control over adding helpful tools like bidding automation, selling tickets, hosting online raffles, collecting donation payments, and more. People dont donate out of the blue. Sell tickets through your website.
Qgiv
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
To run a silent auction, you’ll need to plan many logistics, such as how guests will bid on items, what items you’re procuring, and how you’ll process donations. In addition to your fundraising tools, in-person venue, and auction entertainment, you must consider the price of procuring items and paying staff.
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Greater Giving
MAY 17, 2024
Some fun event themes/ideas include: Host an Intimate Tasting Event Partner with a local winemaker(s) or retail shops to host an intimate tasting event for your top supporters, or as an avenue to reach a new demographic. Wine Makers This can include wineries/wine tasting rooms/wine bars/wine retail shops, etc. Timing is everything!
CauseVox
JULY 11, 2022
For Invest In Kids, corporate sponsors provided both financial support and product donations to be used as prizes. For their event, Invest in Kids regularly encouraged participants to submit their donations for corporate matching. Once verified, the match was immediately reflected in their donation total.
CauseVox
MAY 16, 2022
Auction procurement may be a challenge : Many organizations rely on auctions to generate excitement for in-person events. Due to the pandemic, however, retailers may not be able to fulfill procurement requests. For example, do you want them to make a donation? Register for an event? Purchase fundraising tickets?
The Fundraising Coach
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
On top of the venue details, ticketing, and marketing you’re used to handling for general fundraising events, there’s item procurement and bid tracking to consider. Which items should you procure, and how? A charity auction is a fundraising event in which supporters bid on donated items and packages. Item procurement.
Selfish Giving
DECEMBER 22, 2017
Then, earlier this week, I ran across a post on the Walmart Blog on the retailer's work with WAA to help transport 100,000 wreaths to national cemeteries across the country. WAA has a conflict of interest policy, with any Worcester-related board members recusing themselves from decisions related to the wreath procurement contract.
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