ICYMI: We Care Arts Annual Auction!

Last month, We Care Arts held our annual spring auction.  The auction is the single largest internal fundraiser held by We Care, and this year was no let down.  With over 350 generous guests in attendance, the evening was primed for success from the get go.  This year’s was the highest attendance on record, a massive success for our organization.

Throughout the evening, guests at the Presidential Banquet Center danced to music provided by a DJ, and enjoyed a delicious dinner and drinks.  The main event of the night, the auctions, stimulated great amounts of excitement as guests hope to take home some of the many wonderful donations we received from local sponsors.  Auction items in both the silent and live auctions included projects completed by both our clients and professional artists, one being the beautiful finished Bockrath rug project (more about that collaborative design project

HERE), golf outings at almost every golf course in the Dayton area, deluxe baskets stocked with goodies such as cigars and wine, spa, theater, and restaurant gift cards, all very generously donated by local companies.

 One of the highlights of the auction was receiving donations of around $6,000, more than doubled from last year, solely in bus and Project Mobility passes for our clients, which is a tremendous success.  Many of our clients do not drive, so public transportation is a necessary, but expensive requirement for them to be able to get to We Care and enjoy our programs.   This is consistently the main reason clients are not able to come to We Care, so donations of this nature are supremely and directly beneficial to our clients.  Additionally, many guests volunteered to sponsor clients for the year, paying the cost of their attendance at We Care.

All of us here at We Care would like to extend the most sincere of thank you's to all of our donors and guests, we could not do what we do without your support!  Cheers to another fantastically successful year at We Care Arts!