Carnegie Mellon SIFE Global Threads

With our Silent Auction and our Auction Roadshow, we were able to raise over $1600 in profit, all of which were sent to the struggling artisans!

The Silent Auction that we’ve been working hard on finally came! This year we tried to improve on product selections by choosing our inventory carefully, considering aspects in both style and price. In addition, we tried to have products from a variety of countries, which includes Turkey, India, Brazil, and China.

Unlike the previous annual silent auctions, this year we also implemented a “Buy-It-Now” option for CMU visitors who wish to make a purchase on the Silent Auction. This implementation was definitely a success, especially with the unpredicted snow storm that happened on the day of auction.

As members of the Global Threads project, we definitely enjoyed the whole process from contacting non-profit organizations, selecting items for sale, doing inventories, labeling prices, to setting up and preparing for the auction, and selling products for struggling artisans. During the auction, all of our project members enthusiastically introduced students and faculties about our project, our mission, and the SIFE organization.

Here we would like to thank all the non-profit organizations that we worked with: Ten Thousand Villages, Global Goods Partners, Mercado Global, Partners for Just Trade, and Global Sistergoods.

We also want to thank Smallman’s deli and Seoul Mart who donated refreshments to the Silent Auction.

Finally, all of the GT members should give each other a pat on the shoulder – We did a great job!!

(Half of our group cleaning up! I had to take the picture ><)

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