Darren Diess, an award-winning auctioneer, consultant will teach fundraising auction seminars for nonprofits and schools throughout Southern California during the upcoming months of 2016.
Open exclusively to staff, executives, Board members and volunteers of nonprofit organizations, including charities, foundations, schools, and health care organizations, the two-hour interactive seminar will teach participants how to maximize fundraising income during a benefit charity auction, and to turn bidders into dedicated donors. Each will receive special reports and checklists to assist with auction planning, and the opportunity to participate in Q&A with Darren.
“Most benefit auctions are ineffective because groups are using tired and stale event fundraising methods,” said Diess, a trusted advisor and philanthropy guru who consults on fundraising events nationwide.
” They are starving for new fundraising ideas that work. People who serve on philanthropic boards and donors are bored to death with the same old events.”
His 20 year career of developing relationships, He has helped raised millions of dollars for nonprofits, charities and schools across the country. Clients include Boys and Girls Clubs, Epilepsy Foundation, CASA, Boy Scouts of America, Red Cross and others. United Way who went from $700,000 to $4.5 million in their Live Auction and Fund-A-Need Appeals using techniques shared by Darren. A local San Diego organization, who in one year raised $500,000 in new gifts from new donors by implementing Darren’s strategies and a Riverside County organization, who doubled their auction income after attending just one seminar.
Unlike other event training, this seminar helps organizations overcome a top problem — donor retention. “Strategic Fundraising Solutions offer the new catalyst for philanthropy in this economy,” said Diess “In my two hour charity auction seminar, I will impart profitable, powerful and innovative strategies that seminar participants can use to immediately raise more money and transform their relationships with bidders and donors year-round.”