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High School Fundraising Ideas: Auctions Are Fantastic

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High School Fundraising Ideas: Auctions Are Fantastic

High school fundraising ideas with auctions belong to the list of the top fundraisers because they are really a great way to raise money regardless what you want to raise money for. These fundraisers take various forms and can be tweaked with ease to fit them into different fundraising events.

Add auctions on your list of high school fundraising ideas. One of the best characteristics of auctions is that you can do them with ease through the internet. In this article, we will be looking at the different forms of auctions, which you can choose from. I’m going to discuss how each one works and how you can make good of use of them for your school. However, before you decide on what type of fundraiser type you’re going to use, you first need to determine or know what it is you’re going to feature in your event. You can use a variety of goods. Second hand ones are among the most popularly used because these are easy to gather from donations made by supporters. On the other hand, if you think that using brand new products would be a way better choice, then you can make that work as well. You can get donations for these from different business establishments in your community anyway. There’s only one way for you to gather up a good number of goods to feature in your event and that is through asking.

Ask every single person that you know and approach different companies that you think would be willing enough to support you or might be interested to use your event as a medium for publicity or promotion. Aside from featuring goods, you can also offer different services and skills. The first type of event that you can try is a tradition auction. In here, the price of items starts low and rises slowly as bidders increase the amount of money that they are willing to pay for a certain good, product, or service. The person with the highest bid will get the chance to buy the item that he wants but he has to pay the exact sum that he stated during bidding. To make this work out well, you need to find an auctioneer with a lot of charisma specifically one that has the skills necessary to encourage people to give high bids. Through this you can easily raise the money that you need even before you run out of items to offer.

Next in line is a Dutch auction. This is a variation of the first one. In here, the auctioneer starts the bidding process by suggesting a high starting price for an item. This price is then lowered and lowered until someone from the audience sees the value to be good enough or affordable enough. The first person who bites the bid wins the item and buys it at the last price that was stated by the auctioneer.

Last is a silent auction. In here, pieces of paper are placed in front of different items that are arranged on top of a table. People will then write down their bids. The one with the highest bid gets the chance to buy the item.



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