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, and we want to share …
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Charity Livestreams: Trends & Reflections for 2024
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. That makes us right on …
12-15-2021 ~ Word On The Street
Friend of Bliss Auctions co-founder Ruth, Scott Froschauer is a Los Angeles-based artist who recently shared his moving experience working with a nonprofit in Las Vegas, Opportunity Village. You can read about the collaboration and then the overwhelming success the artworks had during the benefit auction, above in his own words. In the end, they …
One of Your Best Assets
Do you know what your organization’s biggest assets are when it comes to your live fundraising event? At Bliss Auctions, we believe it’s your volunteers! Volunteers, helpers, the generous folks that give their time to your live event for free- they are indeed some of our biggest assets and harnessing their energy and talents is …
07-14-2021 ~ Print Your Whole House!
We here at Bliss love DIY projects, and Michael has a special place in his heart for 3d Printers as well. That is why we were so excited to learn about this amazing setup in Italy printing literal houses! As per the article, the printer is even using local material to make the walls. Since …
Microphones and You
What good is a great message or idea if no one can hear it? Don’t let that happen to you! With our virtual lives becoming more and more entwined with work, we as fundraising professionals must keep up. When putting together a virtual event, you must think about the end user/ viewer with the most …
Now Is The Time For Virtual Fundraisers
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” Wayne Gretzsky We don’t have to tell you how hard the past year has been on the nonprofit and fundraising industries, and we feel the pain our clients have experienced keenly. We strongly believe that organizations should be leaning on their donors during these especially trying …
01-27-2021 ~ Going with the Crowd(source)
Many times we are scared to share the things that frustrate us in life. Especially when many other people might consider the frustration to be of no consequence. But should we feel that way? When we share and collaborate, we are able to build and manage things that we couldn’t dream of doing alone. Recently …
05-12-2020 ~ It’s All About Perspective
Sometimes, shifting your perspective is the best bet for success. Just because we aren’t able to go and do all the things that we remember, doesn’t mean we can’t recreate them. Take the time to appreciate the things that are around you and you can be riding the tea cups in no time. (video source: reddit/r/aww)
Live Virtual Galas: Curiouser and Curiouser
When history looks back on the spring of 2020, it will have a massive trove of content to peruse to understand how those of us living through it coped, most of which will at some point mention this “unprecedented time” and how strange it all is. It seems redundant to say or write such words …