How many of these apply to your event? At Bliss Auctions, we comb the data and spot the patterns so that you don’t have to in order to stay current in the fundraising event space! We’ve picked up on these Top 3 Trends going into the Fall 2024 gala season, Read more…
Ruth from Bliss Auctions here with an update on our favorite peer-to-peer fundraising technique, charity livestreams. Apparently we’re not the only ones reading the writing on the wall: one of our favorite vendors, Auction Packages, included Peer-to-Peer and Gen Z Donors in their Top 10 Non-profit Fundraising Trends for 2024. Read more…
New year, new Nonprofit Spotlight, and this month we want to shine a light on the tireless community-building efforts of the folks at Project Boon. They bring together neighbors, businesses and whole communities while addressing food insecurity impacting local families. Our company’s founder, Ruth, had the opportunity to hear Project Read more…
Handmade goods come infused with the love of the person who made them, and this month we want to spotlight the work done by volunteers who have kept that love alive by completing the projects started by people who have passed away, all thanks to the Loose Ends Project. The Read more…
Last year around this time, we wrote about developing a daily gratitude practice for better mental and physical health. This year, we want to focus on the gratitude we feel for all the people and organizations working to make the world a better place, and not just the ones with Read more…
In a world that is, at times, too cynical and too focused on making things bigger and bigger, artist and advocate Dr. Willard Wigan reminds us that small things can matter, too. Using eyelashes, whiskers and even the hair from a fly, Willard creates incredibly tiny works of art on Read more…
This month we are shining the spotlight on the Innocence Project and the work they do to get wrongfully imprisoned people exonerated. Recognizing the need to focus on innocent people who are wrongfully convicted of crimes, the Innocence Project has been working tirelessly since 1992. With the help of DNA Read more…
Artist Rachel Spelling began creating tiny paintings on a color chart during the lockdown of 2020 and discovered a way of working that made her really, really happy. From large-scale murals to tiny swatches, art has the power to infuse delight, whimsy, care and self-reflection into our lives, and for Read more…
Access to clean drinking water is a human right and the dedicated volunteers of the mutual aid group Water Drop LA have made it their mission to ensure that right is respected for the unhoused community of Skid Row. This month’s Nonprofit Spotlight is a 100% volunteer-run community organization that Read more…
If we all took a moment to celebrate and spotlight someone else, we could send ripples of kindness and connection out into a world that needs it. And that’s just what one Instagrammer did. Grandparents can play such an important role in the lives of children, and Grandpa liked to Read more…