About NPBidNPBid is a nonprofit online auction website where all of our proceeds we get are donated to Riley Children’s Hospital. This is a project where we are trying to get local businesses, organizations, and universities to donate items to us. We then will sell these items via auction and donate the proceeds to Riley Children's Hospital. If NPBid can generate enough money then we can help out the kids at Riley, but also get named a Riley Miracle School. A school can be a Riley Miracle School if they donate a certain amount of proceeds to the Riley Foundation. I am passionate about this project because it brings the community together in a fun online way where they can do their part in bidding on the donations. For this project all of the proceeds we make will go back to Riley. Initial Project ThoughtsI ended up choosing this project because I am interested in going into the business field in college and I felt like this nonprofit project would give me an idea on what it is like to start a business. This project is important to me because not only does it help the kids at Riley Children’s Hospital, but it helps New Palestine High School get recognition as a Miracle School as well. I hope to accomplish getting this nonprofit auction website worked out so we can use it as a legacy project for future students in the class. I believe that Riley Children’s Hospital is a great cause and it would be great way for myself and future students to both help the kids at Riley, but also help the high school out as well. Proposal and Pitch DayNPBid was an idea that I came up with going through the old NPBay Websites. NPBay was a part of an old marketing class at NPHS that auctioned off items and donated them to a different cause every year. I then saw their proceeds that they donated and was astonished by the amount they first did (as seen below). NPBay ended in 2015 because the participation on the auction was limited. NPBid believes we can get better items than NPBay had and hope to generate good amounts of revenue. The ProposalWhen my group and I first proposed NPBid we had to figure out a variety of components. These components had to tell Objectives, What We Need, What We Will Do, Logistics, and Standards Involved. We created a flyer to show what it was all about, but here are the main points we picked out that may be helpful from each section. The Main Objectives for NPBid were to help benefit Riley Children’s Hospital, regain our status or a Miracle School, and represent our school in a positive way. For, the What We Need section we needed reliable donors to donate various items to our auction, an auction website, storage for the items, and somewhere to give items to customers. This is one of the most difficult sections for NPBid because we are starting it from scratch basically. For the What We Will Do we talked about how we will get our items and how we are going to get information to find potential donors. The Standards Involved Section were used to show what techniques we are using and what we are learning from this. For this I put Formulating business management decisions, strategic and operational planning, and business etiquette. Lastly, for the Logistics we talked about the process we were going to use for our website and about the delivering process. For this proposal, we sat in a circle in class and pitched our ideas we had for one another. The groups all gave good feedback to improve our ideas before the more formal Pitch Day. Pitch DayFor Pitch Day, we had to do a presentation in front of the whole world... Well the New Palestine World that is because we had to present not only in front of our peers, but the administration as well. Don’t worry, my group was really prepared, but really nervous because the other groups set the bar so high. We were prepared because we each wrote notes that we memorized about our assigned slide in our slide deck presentation. We studied up on the old NPBay and were planning on trying to make it better for everyone using it. We prepared ourselves for questions and that turned out well for us as we went into the “shark tank.” The feedback we got was really good and we plan on implementing the feedback into the project. The main points of feedback were:
What's NextNPBid is happy to announce we have already started receiving donations for our website. We plan on getting the website up next month. We haven’t started setting up the website because we are looking for the right website for us that is really friendly. We plan on contacting more organizations now hoping to get a response. Here is an example of our contact spreadsheet that we are working on getting as many potential donors as possible. Extra: Our Logos
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