The best silent auction strategy for fundraisers.
Make your silent auction profitable again with a curated table of travel experiences donors can't help but bid on.
Explore all four fundraising strategiesPick six destinations. One unforgettable silent auction.
Punta Cana All-Inclusive - 4 Nights for 2
An all-inclusive Caribbean escape with white-sand beaches and resort-style relaxation.
Pick your Paradise
Pick your island: Antigua, Saint Lucia, Barbados, or Saint Martin — 4 all-inclusive nights.
Tuscany for 2
Six nights in Cortona with wine tastings and a private cooking class.
Mykonos Luxury Villa
Six nights in a private Mykonos villa with infinity pool and organic-farm wine tasting.
Amalfi Coast - 5 Nights for 2
Five nights on the Amalfi Coast — lemon farms, the Paper Museum, Positano, and Ravello.
Italian Ferrari Experience
Cortona wine and cooking plus a real Ferrari test drive in Modena.
New York City
Broadway, Times Square hotel, and the unbeatable energy of NYC for two.
Iceland Adventure
Five nights for two in the land of glaciers, geysers, and the northern lights.
Porto, Portugal - 5 Nights for 2
Five nights for two in Porto — riverside charm, port cellars, and the Douro Valley.
Dublin, Ireland
Five nights for two in Dublin with hand-picked accommodations and local guidance.
Costa Rica
Five nights for two in Costa Rica — rainforests, beaches, and pura vida.
Here's how it works
Select Your Destinations
- •Select no less than 6, no more than 10 auction items.
- •For example: Punta Cana All-Inclusive, Tuscany, the Italian Ferrari Experience, Mykonos Luxury Villa, the Amalfi Coast, and the Caribbean Passport — six of the suggested trips featured above.
- •Those are just suggestions we know sell — pick any 6–8 from HGA's full 60+ destination catalog. The best vacation stations mix beach, European, domestic, and once-in-a-lifetime experiences.
Set Up Your Station
- •HGA provides the best media for your event.
- •Use HGA destination posters and fill your vacation station table at your event — think of creating a super 'silent' auction.
- •Add these destinations to your auction website too — and we can help with that.
Create Bidding Success
- •Set opening bids at 25% above your nonprofit cost (e.g. Tuscany for 2 — 6 nights — has a $2,495 nonprofit cost, so the opening bid should be at least $3,125).
- •Set $100 bidding increments — this fosters more bidding and more excitement among donors.
- •Every HGA trip can be sold to more than one winner — and none have blackout dates, so every winner books on their own dates.
Post-Event Success
- •Report winning bidders to your HGA fundraiser.
- •Donors are contacted by our hospitality team immediately post-event and have 24 months to book their travel.
- •The Vacation Station is a super easy way to identify NEW mid-level donors at your event.
Vacation Station online too
Running the Vacation Station online? We'll get the trips into your platform.
The Vacation Station works on a silent auction table at your gala — and it works just as well as a 7-, 14-, or 30-day online auction. Two ways HGA loads the trips into your auction software.
One-click TripSync push
Push every Vacation Station package straight into your auction software with TripSync — full media kit and reserve included. Don't see your platform yet? Request it inside the portal.
Open TripSyncEvery other platform → our specialist
Greater Giving, OneCause, BidPal, Handbid, HelloFund — HGA's dedicated on-staff auction software specialist will set up your Vacation Station (and the rest of your event) directly inside your platform for you.
Get our specialist on itEither path is risk-free consignment — you only pay on packages that close.
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.
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.
Every winner gets a real human at HGA — same name, same inbox, from first call to wheels-down.
No blackout dates. Winners have 24 months to lock their dates (not to travel — to book).
Our in-house booking and customer-service teams handle every detail. Donors brag about the trip — and about the way the nonprofit treated them.
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.