This month for our Nonprofit Spotlight, we want to highlight the wonderful work of Elysian Valley Arts Collective, aka EVAC. The Los Angeles neighborhood of Elysian Valley, known locally as Frogtown, is hemmed in by the 5 freeway to the west and the Los Angeles River to the east. Despite being a very small slice …
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03-10-2022 ~ Ukraine Charities and Aid
Normally, our weekly Moments of Bliss focus on uplifting stories to bring a moment of respite from the intensity and often negative energy that comes from reading the news. But this week, we couldn’t just put out another feel-good story and ignore the humanitarian crisis happening in Europe. With the ongoing invasion of Ukraine, we …
01-26-2022 ~ Betty Brings Out The Best In Us
This week’s Moment of Bliss is about a truly inspiring campaign, the Betty White Challenge. What would have been the legendary Betty White’s 100th birthday on January 17th 2022 was celebrated by her many fans by meeting the #bettywhitechallenge to donate to organizations helping animals. By Friday the 21st, $12.7 million had been raised for …
01-19-2022 ~ Our Vote Is Our Voice
“The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by human beings for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison people because they are different from others.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Though we normally keep the tone light and apolitical in our weekly Moments of Bliss, we wanted to honor the …
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 …
12-08-2021 ~ Spotlight: Stray Cat Alliance
Get the tissues ready and read this heart-warming story of a stray cat named Tom being reunited with his family, thanks to the care and efforts of local non-profit Stray Cat Alliance. We’ll save the story-telling for the Instagram post above, and instead share why we’re shining the spotlight on SCA for our monthly Non-Profit …
11-24-2021 ~ Thankful for Native Chefs
All of our American readers are familiar with the traditional First Thanksgiving tale that is taught to schoolchildren every November: how the colonists would have starved had the indigenous North Americans not fed them and taught them how to cultivate and prepare local food. Whether presented as historical fact or as a parable for cooperation …
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 …
11-03-2021 ~ Nourish Each Other
November’s Moment of Bliss Non-profit Spotlight shines on Nourish LA, a grassroots, volunteer-led nonprofit focused on providing food to hungry folks while diverting and reclaiming food waste. Founded in the early days of the pandemic by the tenacious Natalie Flores, Nourish harnessed the energy of collective action by enlisting volunteers, shuttered restaurants, grocery stores and …