Transform fundraising events into long-term revenue with expert auction advice A Higher Bid is the nonprofit school and organization guide to planning and executing more exciting, more lucrative special event fundraisers. In this book, award-winning consultant, fundraiser, speaker, and professional auctioneer Kathy Kingston shares her proprietary and proven approaches to audience development, board empowerment, leadership succession, guest cultivation and engagement, and donor development. You'll learn how live auctions, special appeals, innovative icebreakers, silent auctions, and new technologies can help increase revenue, and how to execute these events in a way that translates to a stronger donor base for long-term giving. Kingston describes how to match the guest list and catalog for better results, and reveals the strategies professional auctioneers use to curate the right auction items and discover the right people to generate optimum revenue and engage donors. This book offers a fresh approach to fundraising, showing you how charity benefit auctions can be made a centerpiece of fundraising special events to drive both short- and long-term fundraising goals while providing a fun and inspiring opportunity to generate awareness and keep supporters excited about the mission. Using Kingston's proven framework, you'll learn effective ways to: <ul>
<li>Strategically increase high-profit revenue streams</li> <li>Increase your organization's donor base</li> <li>Empower the board toward efficiency and productivity</li> <li>Engage supporters more deeply and keep them invested</li> </ul>
Donors are the lifeblood of any nonprofit organization, and sustainable revenue depends upon their high engagement and willingness to give. Well-executed benefit and charity auctions have proven to be effective fundraisers for nonprofits, associations, and schools of all types, and A Higher Bid is the expert guide to optimizing these special events for maximum impact.

A Higher Bid: How to Transform Special Event Fundraising with Strategic Auctions (Afp Fund Development)

Business & Money

Kingston, Kathy

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Jossey-Bass

Co-authored by: Margo DeGange, Susan Tolles, Forbes Riley, Kimberly Pitts, Fred Schuldt, Timothy Grant Carter, Kathy Kingston, Liz Uram, Bruce Keith, Elizabeth Quintanilla, Shirley Dalton, Clarissa Gatdula-Calingasan, Elayna Fernández, Ha Tran, Gabrielle Smith, Elisha, Elyssa, Jim Ross Meskimen, Carla Ferrer, Tracy Repchuk, Caterina Rando, Debbie Saviano, Tonya Hofmann, Fantastic Frank Johnson, Candy Barone. Compiled and Edited by Margo DeGange, M.Ed. In this gem of a book for up and coming speakers, 25 brilliant and experienced mentors come together with top-notch information to help you catapult your speaking career quickly and with ease. You get actionable insider-tips, strategies, and tactics, from some of the most sought-after and impressive stage personalities around the globe, so you can succeed beyond your wildest speaking aspirations! Your mentors include celebrities, authors, comedians, artists, bloggers, pioneers, philanthropists, show hosts, survivors, community leaders, designers, heroes, multi-million dollar business professionals, and more. Most importantly, they are people just like you, who started out unsure and not knowing what to do, yet forged ahead with a desire and determination to make a significant impact in the lives of others through speaking. Now, they want to share their knowledge with you! Anyone can become a brilliant speaker . . . with brilliant guidance! That’s what this book will do for you! Are you ready to gain the necessary skills to become a brilliant speaker too? If so, it’s your time! Get ready to gain the secre. Our 25 brilliant speakers will thoroughly polish you, so you sparkle, shimmer, illuminate others, and shine!

25 Brilliant Speakers: Their Expert Advice to Springboard Your Speaking Career

Barone, Candy

Repchuk, Tracy

KEITH, BRUCE

Dalton, Shirley

Rando, Caterina

Smith, Gabrielle

Uram, Liz

Saviano, Debbie

Fernandez, Elayna

DeGange, Margo

Meskimen, Jim Ross

Ferrer, Carla

Johnson, Fantastic Frank

Hofmann, Tonya

Tran, Ha

Schuldt, Fred

Quintanilla, Elizabeth

Elyssa, Elisha

Gatdula-Calingasan, Clarissa

Tim G. Carter

Business Culture

Splendor Publishing

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