Donate! Alice Ferguson Foundation’s Silent Auction

Here’s a cool opportunity for local crafters to donate their work to a good cause.

The Alice Ferguson Foundation, a nonprofit in the Washington, DC area that hates on litter and does environmental education for inner-city kids, is having an Oktoberfest fundraiser with a silent auction and they are looking for awesome and crafty items to put up for bid.

Items they’d love to have donated - They heart anything eco-friendly. Photos, drawings, paintings, ceramics, and glass usually do pretty well, but they’re definitely open to anything handmade. Include your business cards and other promotional material so they can set it out alongside your work. October 3rd is the last day they will collect items. You can download the donation form, here.

How to donate - You can send an email to smacken@fergusonfoundation.org or call their DC office at 202-518-7415 and ask to speak to Penny or Shannon. They’ll arrange things from there!

Oktoberfest Time and Date - Saturday, October 11th, from 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Place - Hard Bargain Farm in Acokeek, MD (Directions at www.fergusonfoundation.org at bottom of left-hand menu)

Admission - Kids under 7 are free; everyone else is $8 a head
With admission, you get the eating of bratwurst, sauerkraut, potato salad, and homemade apple strudel a la carte (sorry, but you gotta pay for the beer); visitation of barnyard animals; operation of old-fashioned apple cider press; watching of and waltzing with Bavarian dancers; riding of haywagons to the Farm’s Potomac shoreline; purchasing of arts, crafts, and delicacies in the gazebo and a separate silent auction