Auctions for Change

Comments Closing Faster / General update

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:35:02 GMT

Due to the high spam volume on this blog, not to mention the relatively infrequent posting, I've reset comments to close on each post 30 days after its publication. I also confess to not focusing on this project of late, and I think it's only fair to declare it officially dormant. If there's anyone out there interested in participating, please get in touch via this form.

Clothes off our Back Spring Auctions

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 15:07:44 GMT

One of our fave Hollywood charity initiatives, Clothes off our Back, is springing into 2007 with auctions from several charity and award events. As always, gowns, shoes, and fashion accessories from celebs like Carmen Electra, Ray Romano, Billy Bush. . . and lots of others so exclusive I don't even know who they are! Check it out!

Audi R8 Charity Promotion with Elton John

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:20:03 GMT

I should have a special category called "somebody gets it" for posts like this. Here's a charity auction for which 100% of proceeds benefit the Elton John AIDS Foundation, and in which the winner gets insider access and a day at the track with a new Audi car release, then gets to attend Elton's (Mr. John's?) VIP Oscar party. While the other kids were rockin' round the clock, Elton's been a very forward and...

On eBay Spam & Charity Auctions

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 03:12:35 GMT

eBay has a distressing number of high-ticket charity auctions lately that are, if not absolutely fraudulent, expensively seedy and spectacularly lame. Some of the tactics I've been seeing include the $500,000 "mystery box", the...

What Can You Give?

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:40:11 GMT

Coming across this auction, for 8 hours of a journeyman electrician's time, gave me pause. This one only commits 10% of the final bid to charity, but it got me thinking: who DOESN'T have something they can auction? What can I auction? I hope you are having the same thoughts.

Signed Stallone Boxing Glove

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 02:21:42 GMT

Yo Adrian! It ain't over 'til it's over! Bid for your very own pair of Rocky's boxing gloves, stylisly signed by Sly Stallone. Meat locker and sides of beef not included, but you do get to go toe-to-toe in the fight to help addicted, abused, and physically challenged children, as managed by ~~Angelo Dundee~~ Variety, the Children's Charity of Southern...

Signed Oasis & Coldplay Guitar

Sat, 13 Jan 2007 02:28:07 GMT

Check out this prime acoustic axe, j-hancocked by none other than Oasis bad boy Noel Gallagher and Coldplay good boy Chris Martin. Does Chris Martin actually play guitar? Does it matter? You know you want this, and Oxfam wants you to want it, because they do some real good in the world. By now, you shoulda somehow realized

The "L" Word Wedding Dress

Sat, 13 Jan 2007 02:15:04 GMT

Benefiting the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, here's a chance for the ladies to step up and show that Brokeback Mountain doesn't have the market cornered on gay tv/movie wardrobe auctions that generate lots of money for good causes. Do you take this dress to be your lawful, charitable...

Kim Family Auction

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 18:46:50 GMT

Please visit this auction of art and crafts benefiting the family of James Kim, a journalist who died tragically and heroically after his family was stranded in an Oregon snowstorm. (James Kim on Wikipedia) Here's the Kim Family Auction website, and here's the...

Jake Gyllenhaal's Brokeback Hat

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 21:31:37 GMT

Given that an auction featured previously for 2 shirts from the movie went for over $100K, I have to believe the cowboy hat worn by character Jack Twist in Brokeback Mountain will go for big charity dollars for Variety's Kids. (Current bidding is over $10K, with four days to...