While fundraisers are essential for nonprofit organizations, charities, schools, and community groups, they can be both time-consuming and difficult to create and manage. That’s why Nonprofit Bidding offers an innovative and easy-to-use online auction platform so nonprofits can spend more time actually raising funds.
Nonprofit Bidding is an online software platform developed by TechnicalitiesPlus Inc., a Haliburton-based web design and application development company. CEO Donna Enright has used her background as a social worker turned programmer to keep her company’s efforts in the nonprofit sector by leveraging technology that helps charities and nonprofits raise money for their organizations.
Nonprofit Bidding’s users can register for free, easily create an auction, and set up its automatic start and end dates so they don’t have to think about it. Nonprofit organizations can offer a preview of their auction, allowing them to market the auction and available items in advance and build excitement around it before bidding opens. The platform also allows users to donate their own items to the auction, with the nonprofit giving final approval and setting the starting bid value and bidding increments.
Because the Nonprofit Bidding platform specializes in auctions for nonprofits, there can be multiple auctions from different organizations running at the same time. This provides a cross-promotion opportunity, as users who come to the platform to bid in one auction can discover other auctions and bid in these as well — benefiting all the nonprofits using the platform.
The Nonprofit Bidding platform also offers an automatic “bid extend” feature, ensuring that if someone makes a bid within the final five minutes of the auction, the previous bidder will be notified. This can often lead to bidding wars, ultimately resulting in more funds raised for the nonprofit. Most of the auctions on the platform have items where bids have been extended multiple times.
Along with securely storing credit card information from every bidder, Nonprofit Bidding also minimizes the hassle and time required for auction organizers to obtain payment. Winners are immediately notified of how to get their item. Once the auction closes and funds have been processed, with just a small percentage subtracted for processing fees, the funds are released to the nonprofit organization.
Those browsing an auction can also make a donation to the organization directly through the auction platform. If the organization is a registered charity, they will provide the donor with a tax receipt after the auction closes.
Having worked with charities and nonprofits for more than 30 years, Nonprofit Bidding founder Donna Enright understands the needs and challenges of nonprofit fundraising. Her company also works to promote and market an organization’s auction — proving that being community-minded is at the heart of TechnicalitiesPlus.
For more information, email info@nonprofitbidding.org or visit www.nonprofitbidding.org. You can also follow Nonprofit Bidding on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
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