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!
