Online Auction
Auction Wish List & Donation Information
We need items on our silent auction wish list (below) including items and opportunities to enjoy at home. We will offer these items on the GiveSmart site for your underwriting opportunity.
Please click here to go to our GiveSmart Auction Prize Donation section. There you can click on Silent Auction items to preview and underwrite. You will see a list of items specifically chosen by our committee for our silent auction. Click to donate, and the system will take your payment for your item. You are now an auction item donor. No need to bring the item to campus, this will all be handled for you. This enables us to buy the item and ship it directly to the winning bidder. You will also be credited for your item by putting your MFA# into the system. Our ultimate wish list items are vacation homes and travel destinations. We also need golf packages, sports and concert tickets, and fine dining packages. Also, we are always looking for those ever-popular electronics: smart televisions, iPads, Apple earbuds, smart watches. If you have an y
donations of this nature, please contact Margaret Dillon with details of your donation. MFA members can get credit for these items by listing them on your quarterly report. We are interested in any ideas that you have as well as answering any questions that you have. If you, any of your family or friends have connections with people who could assist us with obtaining these types of items, please contact us.
Working with all of you makes this job a pleasure!
Silent Auction Chairs: Margaret Dillon & Tracie Platt
call: 847-341-0348 • email: silent-auction@m-f-a.org
call: 847-341-0348 • email: silent-auction@m-f-a.org
Auction Wish List
Please consider donating any of the following auction items; or, contact us to provide something not listed here.
Vacation Homes and Timeshares
Concert tickets: United Center, Soldier Field, Allstate Arena, Chicago Theater as well as smaller theater venues
Theater tickets, especially Broadway in Chicago. Broadway in Chicago season tickets. All theater tickets are welcome and popular
Tickets to Chicago sports teams: Cubs, Sox, Bears, Blackhawks, Bulls, Fire, Northwestern, Notre Dame, etc.
“Seats in a Suite are Sweet”
Getaway packages: Koehler, Door County, Wisconsin Dells, Lake Geneva and Eagle Ridge
Behind the scenes at Shedd Aquarium, Brookfield Zoo, Museum of Science and Industry; family memberships at any of the above.
Sunset cruise on lake Michigan with dinner
Apple iPad
Apple AirPods
Air and water show package
Opening pitch at the Cubs
Nutcracker tickets
Masters golf tickets
Chicago restaurants: Girl and the Goat, RPM, Gibson’s group, Boka group, etc.
Six Flags season pass
Beer/wine of the month club
Apple watchA week at Canyon Ranch Spa or similar spa package.
Luxury golf vacation package
Luxury hotel stays
Super bowl ticket package
Alaskan cruise/International riverboat cruise
Helicopter ride over Chicago, hotel stay and dinner in the city
Chicago Staycations: concert tickets with back stage passes, hotel stays
Napa Valley vacation package
Kentucky Derby vacation package
Chicago Cubs/Sox/Blackhawks/Bear meet and greet with players
Chance to fly with the Blue Angels- no I have not forgotten!
Tickets to the Kennedy Center Honors performance in Washington DC