“Y'all are the top-shelf of everything you do. Our people who take your trips ALWAYS come back to us and say how amazing it was. That's why we keep choosing HGA for our travel auction items year after year.”
Susan Norris, Founder
Rescuing Hope
For Silent Auction Tables That Actually Sell Out
Silent Auctions Built to Sell Out — Not Sit Out.
Half-empty bid sheets. Items going for less than the minimum bid. Baskets nobody touched. The silent auction is the most under-performing table at most galas — and it's the easiest one to fix.
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Your silent auction is leaving 60% on the table.
Donated wine baskets. Restaurant gift cards stapled to a board. The same condo from a board member's brother-in-law that didn't sell last year. Your silent auction is full of items your guests have seen before, can buy themselves, or simply don't want. The data is brutal: silent auctions average 30–40% sell-through on donated items, and the items that DO sell often go for the minimum bid. That's not a fundraiser. That's a garage sale with a paddle number.
Curated silent auction packages with proven price tiers.
- Travel-tier silent items ($500–$3,500 minimum bids): weekend getaways, wine country, Napa, Charleston, mountain escapes.
- Mid-tier experiences ($250–$1,000 minimum bids): culinary tours, sporting event ticket pairs, regional vacation rentals.
- Each package comes with a digital media kit: marketing-grade display copy, photography, bid-sheet inserts, and recommended minimums.
- Run as multi-winner silent items — 3 couples bid, 3 couples win — and your one item generates 3x the revenue.
- Risk-free consignment: reserve 8, 12, or 20 silent items at no cost, pay only on what sold.
The Consignment Advantage
Maximize your fundraising potential. Minimize your risk.
Consignment auction packages and raffle prizes give your nonprofit the upside of premium travel and bucket-list experiences — without ever paying upfront. You reserve at no cost, your guests bid the night of the event, and you only pay our reserve on packages that actually sell. Every dollar above that is yours.
Zero upfront risk
No purchase, no inventory, no deposit. If a package doesn't sell, you owe nothing for it. Ever.
Premium upside
Curated travel and experiences donors actually compete for — bidding pools 2–4x deeper than donated items.
Turnkey + done-for-you
Marketing kit, auctioneer scripts, personalized booking assistance for every winner. Your team is done at the gavel.
Bestsellers
The three packages other galas reach for first.
Most-reserved trips across our 2,000+ events per year — open to your event with zero upfront cost.
The HGA Media Kit — included on every trip
You don't write copy. You don't shoot photos. You don't design posters.
Every trip we ship — silent-auction packages, live-auction headliners, Golden Ticket prizes, all of them — comes with a turnkey marketing kit your committee can use the day you reserve. QR-code posters for the room, professional photography, a 60-second promo video, written package descriptions, and a verbatim auctioneer script. We make it as turnkey as possible so you can just say yes and start selling.
QR-code poster
Print-ready, scan-to-buy from any phone.
Pro photography
High-resolution imagery for program, slides, and social.
Promo video
60-second cut for social and on-screen.
Package description
Word-for-word copy for the program and bid sheet.
Auctioneer script
Verbatim stage script written by pros who close rooms.
After the sale
Sell the trip. Hand us the winner. You're done.
Send us the winner's name, email, and phone — that's the entire hand-off. Within 24 hours, a dedicated HGA booking specialist reaches out and your team is officially done. No itineraries, no follow-up emails, no "did they ever book?" anxiety. Your nonprofit gets the credit; we do the work.
Hand-off in one email
The only thing the nonprofit owes us is the winner's name, email, and phone. We submit the trip and contact them within 24 hours.
Dedicated booking specialist
Every winner gets a real human at HGA — same name, same inbox, from first call to wheels-down.
2 full years to book
No blackout dates. Winners have 24 months to lock their dates (not to travel — to book).
Personalized service, start to finish
Our in-house booking and customer-service teams handle every detail. Donors brag about the trip — and about the way the nonprofit treated them.
Sell it as many times as you want
There is no cap on how many times a package can be put in front of bidders — same night, next event, every year. Reserve once, sell again and again. The nonprofit only ever pays the consignment cost on trips that actually sell.
Real results
Real events. Real numbers. Real packages.
Chicago House · Chicago, IL
Chicago House: $24,000 from a custom Euro-Pass and back-to-back Amalfi sales
Chicago House blended a paddle-drop with two live-auction Amalfi packages — turning one custom trip into a single $15K paddle moment, then doubling up on Amalfi for $24K more.
$24,000+
Read the success story
Sandpipers
Sandpipers: $23,870 by selling Punta Cana fourteen times
Sandpipers proved the multi-winner playbook — one Punta Cana package, fourteen winners at $3,500 each, with auctioneer Rossi Morreale running the room.
$23,000+
Read the success story
“I was very hesitant to do it, but that year we sold 9 or 10 items! One HGA auction item alone raised over $13,000 at our benefit auction. All of this is possible due to HGA's team of hospitality, travel, and fundraising experts who are there for you and your supporters.”
Terri Bailey
$13,000+ raised
Frequently asked questions
Quality beats quantity every time. We typically recommend 8–20 curated silent items rather than 40–60 donated odds and ends. A focused silent table with strong travel and experience packages outperforms a sprawling table of donated goods almost every time. Your Fundraising Specialist will size the right count for your guest list and budget.
Build a silent auction table that finally sells out.
Talk with a Fundraising Specialist — we will recommend the exact silent-tier packages for your audience and show you the multi-winner items that triple your per-item revenue.
Prefer to talk first? Call (405) 330-7067