Online Auction Organizer for our Nonprofit

Our empowerment activities include Income-generation activities include

• provision of internal revolving loan funds
• marketing of the Ugandan women's craft products in the U.S. and Canada
• business development assistance
• cash crop agriculture activities

Education and training activities include

• scholarship and sponsorship programs for over 200 children
• girls' education initiative program to keep young girls in school
• training programs for women as well as teachers

Community empowerment programs include

• partnering with a northern Uganda community on its primary school which has over 500 students and 18 teachers and 9 support staff
• partnering with a northern Uganda community on a clinic serving over 5000 people
• assisting our Jinja women's group with a home building program to provide women a decent place to live where they can move out of the slums and stabilize their lives

Prior to working with OU, our women participants were normally living on less than $2 per day, and were supporting 8 to 10 children and orphans in their households. Many are widows whose husbands died in the war, or from AIDS. We do not give handouts but work on building capacity and encouraging those we work with to help themselves. , We are holding our first ever online auction event late this fall and need a volunteer to head the committee working on this project. It could be 1 or 2 volunteers who will do overall planning and work with 2 to 3 internal volunteers who can help but have not done an auction before. Primary (but not all) duties would encompass

• putting together an overall plan and timetable
• solicit auction donations from within the organization and from the wider community auction including specific themed gift baskets, gift cards, travel cards, etc.
• select auction software such as GiveButter or ?
• prepare communications timetable including emails, newsletter articles, communications with auction items donors, etc.
• coordinate the online auction, determine winning bids, collect money, ship gifts to winners etc.
• assign duties to other committee members and follow up to make sure duties are accomplished timely
• communicate with OU board status of preparations and request assistance as needed
• prepare an Online Auction procedures manual for use in future years