GPF Silent Auction Online Bidding Opens 10/31/18

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Get ready to bid, bid, bid! Our annual Silent Auction opens October 31,2018: https://www.biddingOwl.com/GPF. Bid early and often. Treat yourself, get your holiday shopping done or score that great trip you’ve always wanted. See you at #GPAConf18 in Chicago at the Swissotel, and don’t forget about our Wine Cork Pull fundraiser also. Here are some of the great items up for bid.

  • Adele Sheet Music
  • Handmade Ugandan crafts from Obwaagazi Children’s Foundation
  • Starbucks gift cards
  • Chicago Bears Legend helmet
  • Signed Avengers movie poster
  • Bruce Springsteen electric guitar
  • Taylor Swift acoustic guitar
  • B. King autographed record album
  • Princess Leia Organa
  • Big Bang Theory cast 11×15 poster
  • Barack Obama 11×14 photo
  • Carinne gold drop earrings and pendant in abalone shell
  • Ultimate meditation and relaxation kit
  • Corky’s BBQ gift card
  • Boston skyline votive
  • Cajun and Creole cooking collection
  • Sowing the seeds of grant writing success basket
  • For serious coffee drinkers only gift assortment
  • SmarEGrants grant professionals course and community
  • Cooperstown bat collectible
  • Golf lessons and vacations
  • Ski and tropical vacation trips
  • New England, Italy, Las Vegas, California, Costa Rica, Canada trips
  • Office Feng Shui kit for grant pros

We Need Your Help! A Letter to the GPF Board and Grant Professionals

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Due to an increased focus on Fundraising and the effects on our Marketing and ECC Committees, I am asking for volunteers to help staff these committees. Both will have a lot to do over the next year or two, and, the more resources they have, the better!

I have made a list of the desired skills sets each committee chair outlined. I am requesting that all of you consider volunteering for one of these committees. In addition, please send out this information to your network, as I would like for this to have as broad a reach as possible. GPF Committees are a great way to get involved in the Foundation without the commitment of a board seat. Committee meetings are usually held by conference call either monthly or bi-monthly for an hour.

The ECC Committee will be rebranding the current ECC program in the coming year and needs the following skills sets:

  • Marketing background
  • Calling people
  • Communications
  • Graphic Design person

If you or someone in your network wishes to volunteer of the ECC Committee, please email Kristi Crawford (Kristi.Crawford@sanfordhealth.org) or Susan Caldwell (susancaldwell1962@gmail.com).

 

The Marketing Committee is an integral part of the success of our fundraising plan and needs those with the following skill sets. In addition, we are looking for a Marketing Chair (or co-Chairs) starting in 2019:

  • Sticktoitiveness
  • Passion, time and willingness to regularly, consistently promote GPF through several social media platforms (including GrantChat) on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.
  • Ability to complete volunteer tasks independently and with little supervision
  • Experience with fundraising through social media
  • Experience creating scopes of work for vendors and marketing, business and/or social media plans
  • Good organizational/time management skills
  • Strong speaking and writing communication skills
  • Graphic design experience or willingness to learn (for ads, social media, website, etc)
  • Website design experience
  • Blog writing experience
  • Mail chimp experience

If you wish to volunteer for the Marketing Committee (or wish to chair or help chair that committee), please email Dr. Judy Riffle at uscdrj@gmail.com.

Thanks in advance for your willingness to help and to help promote these needs to a broad GPA audience!

Micki Vandeloo, GPC
Chair, Grant Professionals Foundation Board

The GPF Wine Cork Pull and Silent Auction are Back! See You in Chicago!

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A fun event is happening for the second time at the 2018 GPA Annual Conference in Chicago from November 7-10. In addition to our regular Silent Auction (which is digital this year!), GPF will also hold a Cork Pull. A Cork Pull is a fun little mystery game involving wine. And what’s not to love about wine?

Guests attending the Welcome Reception will have the opportunity to ‘pick a cork’ for a donation of $20. The cork is assigned a number that corresponds to a matching mystery wine bottle for you to take home or enjoy in your room. The wine ranges in value from $10-$50 per bottle and has been generously donated by members of the GPF, GPA, and GPCI boards.

Don’t forget-you still have time to donate an item to our Silent Auction. Sign up here. Thank you for your support, and see you in Chicago!