Question by Crazy4papillons: Anyone know have any good ideas for silent auction donations for a fundraising event?
I am a volunteer for Habitat for Humanity and we are having a silent auction and live auction to raise money to start our next house. We are getting the usual donations – gift certificates for restaurants, hair styling salons, etc., but would really like to have something different and exciting. Any ideas?
Another note – our guidelines say that we have to stay within our county when soliciting donations so as not to encroach on other affiliates. Some of your ideas were really good, but they involve contacting groups outside of our area.
Best answer:
Answer by Red-dog-luke
We do a silent auction to help raise funds for our private Christian school. Our biggest seller has been a quilt. We print out a small color picture of each student onto white cloth and then quilt each piece onto the quilt. We also have the school year embroidered on to the quilt. It is time consuming but it is a real treasure.
Maybe you could modify this idea to make the quilt personal for the group you are working with. The quilt takes around 6 months to make if you use volunteers.
Just a thought.
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