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Live Charity Crowdfunding is an innovative fundraising model that inspires large audiences to donate to charitable causes during concerts, national sports team games, and collegiate events. This approach leverages the power of collective engagement, fostering widespread participation and support for sponsored foundations and nonprofits.By integrating with high-energy live events across diverse sectors, Live Charity Crowdfunding maximizes audience impact, seamlessly connecting supporters with the causes they care about. Uniting over 20 years of live fundraising expertise, this model utilizes a proprietary digital platform to provide a unique opportunity for broad engagement. It offers a robust, interactive experience that enhances audience engagement and charitable contributions.

As Live Event Fundraising Game Changers, with 17 years raising funds for charity across the Country, we've conducted over 700 events as Auctioneers, Emcees, Fundraisers, and Speakers, helping earn $130+M for charitable organizations.In recent years our business model has expanded from solely conducting live and virtual auctions to teaching, training, and helping significant public events raise funds during concerts, sporting events, and association gatherings. As such, we've transformed The Auction Divas into the brand Live Event Fundraising.In our new role, we've incorporated our victories and blunders into Support Services offering a digital masterclass, Chain Reaction Fundraising, for the do-it-your-selfer type, along with Donate and GO Consignment Travel services. We've honed our craft in Performance Services inspiring high levels of financial support during Live Auctions and Public Event Fundraising.Both are designed to help you RAISE MORE | CONNECT MORE | DO MORE.Chain Reaction FundraisingThe Chain Reaction Masterclass is a digital training program that shows charity event planners how to achieve more remarkable results for their organizations, donors, and those they serve, when one gift inspires another, and another, and another. . . .Public Event FundraisingCompared to traditional gala-style fundraising, Public Event Fundraising leverages larger audiences of over 3000 attendees at concerts, sporting events, and association meetings, raise funds for foundations, nonprofits, and favorite causes.Charity AuctioneerOur Charity Auctioneer team helps nonprofits, schools, and religious organizations ENGAGE, ENTERTAIN and EDUCATE audiences to deliver more, raise more, and help more at live auction events.Donate and GO TravelOrganizations are giving their donors what they want by offering exciting travel opportunities through Donate and GO Travel, which provides profitable, no-risk consignment experiences that donors and bidders buy in volume.

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Are you a Chain Reaction Fundraiser?You may be wondering, what is a chain reaction? In terms of fundraising, it’s when one gift inspires another, and another, and so on.Most people want to answer, “of course I am”,” but are you really? Do you:Consistently attract new donors and sponsors? Quickly identify and retain committees and volunteers?Quickly get buy-in from leadership, and do you work to maximize your asks to raise more awareness at funds at every event?If you are being honest and wondering, “can I say yes to all of these questions?”, you need to read this!While most of the larger nonprofits have an entire team of event planners and development professionals with varied skills and personalities that work together to reach their event goals. Small to mid-size nonprofits, however, typically allocate one or more team members to plan and execute events as a side job while they continue to focus on the core work. These planners usually rely on volunteers and committees to perform specific tasks, but these roles are ad hoc without a proper integration of personalities and skill sets.Most people strive to balance their work and volunteer life, but we all have one dominant personality style. If we can understand our own techniques and how they inform our decisions, then we can identify other personalities and team members that not only complement but expand the depth of function and performance that can be achieved.We’ve developed a Chain Reaction Fundraising Personality Style Quiz that is helping professionals and organizations develop powerful teams to plan, implement and reach event goals and is based on the four temperaments: Nutty ProfessorMelancholic Earth Sign(Analytical and literal) HotshotCholeric Fire Sign(Ambitious and leader-like) Unscripted Ad-LibberSanguine Air Sign(Pleasure-seeking and sociable) Bashful BrainiacPhlegmatic Water Sign(Relaxed and thoughtful)Take the quiz at www.liveeventfundraising.com/quiz

Owned and operated a full service marketing, design and PR firm in Austin Texas, Detroit Michigan and Denver Colorado.

Marketing Manager in the contract research field. Managed agency relationships, business development and public relations for the firm.

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