Online Bidding with Greater Giving

What You Can Expect

This year’s auction will use Greater Giving Online Bidding – allowing for a paperless bidding system. You will bid using your smartphone or tablet on silent auction items. Also, you can easily track Packages by “following” their activity without having to continuously return to a table or bid sheet. 

How to Mobile Bid with Greater Giving Online Bidding

1. Register your mobile number and credit card information on our registration page in advance of the event or upon arrival.
2. When the auction is open, you will receive an automated ‘Welcome’ text with your bidder link.
3. After clicking the link in the text, begin searching for packages by name, number, or category
4. Select the package you wish to bid on.
5. You can Bid the next increment or Bid More than the next increment
6. If you choose to Bid More you can choose to set your Max Bid. If your max bid is the highest, the system will automatically bid in your favor until you are outbid or until the silent auction closes. If your bid is lower than the highest max bid on that package, you will be prompted to enter a higher bid.
7. To purchase a package at the Buy Now price, select the Buy button.
8. To "watch" a package, select the star icon on the package.
9. To make a donation, select the Donation button on your home screen and choose a preset amount or select the Custom Amount button to enter the amount you wish to donate.
10. If you’re out-bid at any point before the silent auction closes, you will receive a text message.
11. To view packages you are bidding on, click the menu button and select Bids.
12. To view packages you are watching, click the menu button and select Favorites.
13. Once the auction closes, the guest with the highest bid will win.
14. Under the Bids area you can check your winning packages.

The Youth Advocacy Foundation (YAF) was established in 2001. We are the non-profit arm of the Massachusetts juvenile public defender agency: the Youth Advocacy Division (YAD) of the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS).

For nearly twenty years, we have been working to protect and defend Massachusetts' most vulnerable youth. Some of our key successes include:

• Changing how Massachusetts youth interact with the criminal justice system;

• Fighting for the establishment of regional juvenile public defender offices in Massachusetts;

• Advocating in favor of raising the age to be tried as an adult to eighteen years of age;

• Calling attention to the grave injustice that is sentencing juveniles to life without parole.

A gift from you helps ensure Massachusetts' most vulnerable youth have access to the educational advocacy and services that they deserve.

The Youth Advocacy Foundation is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Your contribution is tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.