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Supporters of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) had the opportunity to bid on Red Sox-Yankees game tickets and a sightseeing trip with singer-songwriter Livingston Taylor at an auction held last night for the Summer Urban Program...
Yesterday’s auction is only a small part of the effort by SUP directors to plan for a collection of 12 student-run camps that will accommodate about 850 children in low-income Boston neighborhoods...
...expensive PBHA-run program—costing an estimated $600,000—funding the camps is a yearly struggle. This year, SUP directors are trying to move away from relying on grants, and are instead focusing on raising money by themselves with fundraisers like yesterday’s auction...
Planned fundraising efforts are both camp-specific and SUP-wide. Yesterday’s auction was an example of an SUP-wide fundraising event, as well as a Bowl-a-thon planned for next month. Last night, SUP earned $12,500 through the auction...
...thinking of starting up your own collection, experts advise that you accumulate anything and everything. Even if you have no interest in safety cards or that bar of hotel soap from Yakutsk, someone will. Online auction sites enable you to share your haul with a much wider market than before, and allow people to compare and competitively bid for memorabilia more easily...