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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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 …
11-17-2021 ~Fundraising & Fighting Parkinson’s
In “Back To The Future”, Marty McFly tells a gymnasium full of teenagers, “I guess you guys aren’t ready for that.” That actor, Michael J. Fox, says the opposite to his fellow Parkinson’s sufferers- he knows they are ready for a cure. Past ready, really- Fox himself has lived with the progressive nerve-system condition for …
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 …
10-14-2021 ~ Bird Brain Solutions
Recently, a very cool paper was released showing that scientists have observed tool-making in wild Goffin cockatoos. Not just one tool either, but three different tools, and each are made multiple times to specific shapes for the purpose of getting at the seed at the center of a hard mango pit. Even more interesting is …
Hybrid Events: How To Please Everyone!
You know the old saying about “you can’t please all of the people all of the time”? Well, it’s as true about life as it is about gala planning! If you try to please everyone, there’s a good chance that no one ends up happy. Now that we’ve acknowledged the elephant in the room, let’s …
Getting People Excited for Your Event
It’s time to tell people about your event. You are excited, your team is excited. The sponsored dinner is to die for and the auction items are out of this world. You even have, quite possibly, the most clever hashtag your team has ever come up with. What are the best ways to spread this …
With Gratitude
(Saying Thank You Is The Ultimate Honey For Catching Flies) If you’ve ever had the pleasure of being on the receiving end of sincere and genuine thanks, you’ll know first hand how powerful the experience can be. The moment of feeling seen and appreciated can be so affirming, so validating, and, for some, transformational. The …
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 …