| cMarket Cements Its Position as Largest Provider of Online Charity ...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--cMarket, the nation's largest provider of online fundraising auction events and parent to www.BiddingForGood.com, today announced that it has launched its 2,000th auction, making it the "category leader" as the company that has run the most fundraising auction events on the web. The company is set to keep this mantle, with a pipeline of another 500 online auction events scheduled to run over the next 90 days. The 2,000 auctions ultimately represent thousands of children who've received a better education, hungry people who've been fed, environmentally beneficial programs that have been implemented, and medical research that has been funded. Fundraising through auctions is also big business and cMarket believes it can be even bigger.
$40 million in art on the block. Quite a month.
Fourteen big auctions of art works worth more than $40 million will be held in Melbourne and Sydney over the next month – the largest number ever run in Australia in such a short time. Cashed-up collectors and investors have already set new records for paintings this year while a market loaded with money has attracted more auctioneers hoping to generate a profit from pictures. Bonhams, which claims to be one of the largest fine art auction houses in the world, is launching its new Melbourne sale rooms tonight under the Bonhams & Goodman shingle. The Sydney-based firm expects 300 guests from the arts, banking and legal professions, together with dealers and private collectors, will be present when Melbourne Lord Mayor John So opens the new gallery in Malvern Road, Prahran. The sale room starts off a series of auctions it estimates will generate $7 million on Sunday when 185 pieces of jewellery and collectibles go under the hammer, to be followed by a further 311 objects from the Neville Locker collection in Sydney on Sunday week.
Stars Partake in Elephant Project Auction
Broadway, film, and TV stars have been posing for photos with elephants for a charity project called the Elephant Project to benefit the Alzheimer's Association. Celebrities including Felicity Huffman, Kristin Chenoweth, and Julianne Moore, have been posing with an elephant beanie baby and signing specialized Elephant Project cards in order to create items for auctions. Rounds of auctions are held every few months, with each celebrity package consisting of an 8x10 photo of the celebrity and an elephant, an autographed card, and an elephant beanie baby.The current round of auctions began on April 15th and 16th and will end on April 22nd and 23rd. At this time, forty celebrity packages have been placed on eBay in hopes of raising over a thousand dollars by the end of the round.The Elephant Project was created in July 2006 by 16-year old David Niederhoffer, who wanted to create an organization to raise awareness and funds for the Alzheimer's Association after his grandfather passed away from Alzheimer's disease.
Going Once Auctions
It's time for the American Express Going Once auctions yet again. From April 17-27, U.S. and U.K. American Express card holders have the can bid on travel adventures. There is a set number of packages and the price drops every twenty minutes until 7:00 pm ET or until the package sells out. Buy early and risk not getting the best deal or wait as the price drops and miss out entirely.First up is a seven-night package to Conouan Island in the Grenadines. The price starts at $7,740. The other excursions include trips to Florence, South Africa, an American tour, Hong Kong, a cruise to Antarctica, a Disney World package, and a trip to the Mayan Riviera. There are also 19 fixed price packages under $3,000 and other travel deals available. .
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