VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

eBay Fundraising

eBay, the online market place, recently introduced a new easy way to support charities while buying and selling items. This organization is called Giving Works and SLC is an authorized non-profit organization that can receive designated donations from eBay sellers. Buyers can bid for items on eBay items knowing that proceeds from the sale are helping a worthy cause and sellers can donate a percentage of their sales to charity.

Buying and selling on eBay is a new way to raise money for our church community. Many of us have items that are valuable to others, but they have been collecting dust, are no longer useful or used, or that just need to be released in order to make room for new additions to our collections.

Sellers: When selling an item on eBay for Charity (Giving Works), simply select Spiritual Life Center from the list of charities and choose a percentage of proceeds to donate (10-100%).

Buyers: Remember to look out for the eBay Charity's (Giving Works) distinctive blue and yellow ribbon when searching for items to buy on eBay. This will help you to recognize items that will provide charitable donations. To view all items that will make a contribution to Spiritual Life Center simply search for the ‘Spiritual Life Center store’ from the eBay homepage.

The eBay team meets every Thursday at the Little Church from 12:00 noon to 3:00 p.m., reviewing items donated to SLC, taking digital pictures of items to sell on eBay, researching items and writing accurate descriptions of items to be posted for sale, monitoring auction items and shipping to buyers after the auction is complete. In addition to donated items, SLC is selling tapes, CDs, artwork, and other donated items via eBay auctions or through the SLC eBay Store. Visit the SLC eBay store at:

http://stores.ebay.com/Spiritual-Life-Center

Consider joining the eBay team. We learn a lot every week and enjoy the time we spend raising funds for the church.

For more information on how you can participate, e-mail ebay@slcworld.org.