Artisan Auctions

Portland, OR

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Travels up to 200 miles

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Overview

Our mission is to use specialized planning and fundraising techniques to help you establish your financial goals, working with you to create your most successful benefit auctions, encourage community participation and awareness, and keep the fun in this FUNdraising experience for everyone.


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Booking information

Price range: Contact for rates

Languages: English

Gig length: 120 - 240 minutes

Unions: None

What to expect

As a guest at a Fundraising Auction, you can be guaranteed to enjoy spirited bidding in a playful manner. You will be able to participate or just watch all the action around you, but you will laugh, possibly cry, and give generously! I promise you will have FUN!

About

Kelly Russell is the face and force behind Artisan Auctions. She brings over a decade as a certified professional benefit auctioneer and positive energy to every room she works. A firm believer in good process and communication equates excellent outcome, she provides attention to detail and consultation from start to finish. Her team of experts rely on her keen direction, knowing that in the end, the work we do makes the world a better place thanks to the non-profit organizations we work for. Kelly works from a base of fundraising event experience, crafting auctions to meet and exceed client goals, and she has a great time doing it.

Additional booking notes

For any non-profit looking for a professional benefit auctioneer, you will need to have a professional sound system including a hand held wireless microphone. There is no sense in hiring the most amazing auctioneer if your audience cannot hear them. I also recommend a quality lighting system as well. Gives a good focal point for your audience, after all, your eye is drawn to the brightest spot in the room.

Set list

4 bottles of room temperature water
A music stand or place to put some paperwork
6'-8' Table and 2 chairs off stage for a clerk

Influences and inspiration

Every organization that I work with offers new ideas and new connections. I love to see each exceed their monetary goals on Auction night because they have come together as a team and made goals. Its always great to see the cultivation of new donors that will be there to support them indefinitely.

Setup requirements

Adequate Stage Lighting

Professional Sound System

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