For the past 3 years, we have held a silent auction in the Fall to raise funds for our general programming. This funding is super important to us, especially as we've seen financial impacts from DEI policy shifts, since we are program for girls. So...this year we are gearing up for our auction and we could use some extra support.
Here's basically what's involved. We need people to help us with the following:
1. Donors and Deliveries - so we have a good list of people who have donated to us in the past. Now we just have to reach out to all of them to see if they're willing to donate to us again. Plus if we think of new donors that we can reach out to as well. This team is responsible for getting the item from the donor and then making sure it is delivered after the auction is over. Right now, we just have 2 people on this team and we need 5. We would LOVE to have some Eagle support on this one!
2. Technology - The auction itself has to be built into a platform we have called ClickBid. We have a high school student who worked on this last year, and she's going to help again, along with an adult from our board, but here again...we could use 1-2 more folks to make these inputs easier and not such a big lift for our student, who is amazing btw!
3. Communications and Marketing - if you are a wiz with canva or marketing type stuff, we could definitely use a hand with some organized marketing initiatives that center around social and mass emails, plus any other ideas you might have to help us spread the word. We could probably use another 2-3 people on this team.
Anyway, that's the long and short. We try to star the auction on the same day as we have our Welcome Picnic, which this year is 9/19. So that means we would have a good amount to do between now and then. The auction lasts for one week. And then there's the deliveries. So bottom line, this opportunity would be completely done probably no later than mid-October.
If you're an Eagle looking for a dive-in-and-out volunteer opportunity and you would love to help raise some funds for a grassroots non-profit like ours...please reach out! We would so love to have your help and support and learn from you, too!
