Diary of a School Auction Chair

...wherein I talk about how and why I'm going to pull this event off.

Sunday, September 16, 2012

This blog lives!

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Hi everyone, I'm amazed and delighed to see that this blog is still getting some traffic, although I have been ignoring it for quite a...
Friday, November 18, 2011

Reviving the blog

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I don't (quite) have a new auction-chair gig this year - although there's a possibility. In the meantime, I'm going to open th...
Saturday, April 9, 2011

The Day After

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Whoof.  We had a lovely time, and raised more money than I expected.  Well, more than I expected earlier this week.  We were hoping for a la...
Friday, March 18, 2011

What to do, what to do

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I just got a really great donation from a frozen-yogurt shop that opened up last year in our neighborhood.  They are local-only: two shops i...
Friday, February 25, 2011

Venue Resolution

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We're staying at the place we originally booked, after lengthy debate.  This is a little disappointing to me, not in that I dislike the ...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Another quick donation

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Here's another easy donation you can get for your school auction from the comfort of your home office. http://community.tenmarks.com/ ...

Venue headaches

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This school has traditionally held its auction at one of the local arts centers.  It's a lovely old building, and a great choice.  I res...
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Roger Devine
Portland, OR, United States
Chair for the 2011 fundraising auction for the Robert Gray Middle School in Portland, OR. Full disclosure: I'm also a partner in a company that sells auction-management software and I will probably talk about our software in this blog. But it won't be a big commercial. I promise.
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