Guests enjoyed special celebrity tributes to Ashley Judd, dinner, a silent auction and an exciting live auction, with all proceeds to benefit PSI.

A benefit auction is also held during the day in which items donated from various businesses and individuals in the community are bid upon.

In September of 2012, Clooney offered to take an auction winner out to lunch to benefit the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network ( GLSEN ).

In 2001, Kravitz participated in a benefit auction for the Red Hot Organization, in conjunction with Amazon. com to increase public AIDS awareness, which ran from February 28 until April 11, 2001.

On June 24, 2004, one of Vaughan's Stratocasters, dubbed " Lenny ", was sold at an auction to benefit Eric Clapton's Crossroads Centre in Antigua ; the instrument was bought by Guitar Center for $ 623, 500.

Each year from 2005 through 2009, Hootie and the Blowfish performed at The Animal Mission ’ s ' Party Animals ' silent auction and concert to benefit the shelter animals in Columbia, South Carolina.

As he had wished, his Steinway had a very much " All Star " Christie's auction for the benefit of gifted low-income music students, still bearing its silver plaque: < span style =" font-variant: small-caps ;">" presented by jazz lovers from all over the world.

In May 2008, Panettiere was involved in an eBay auction to benefit Save The Whales Again, a campaign of The Whaleman Foundation.

In December 2010, Vettriano was asked by First Minister, Alex Salmond to create his official Christmas card " Let's Twist Again " which was sold at auction for the benefit of four Scottish charities in February at The Old Course Hotel in St. Andrews with the First Minister attending.

Several years later, Atherton gave Donald the gloves he wore on this occasion for Donald's benefit year auction.

The piece is part of a benefit art show and auction entitled Good Wood Exhibit, raising awareness and funds for a Do-It-Yourself skatepark project in Detroit, Michigan.

Serial numbers 2 through 26 of these were played and signed by Page ; number 11 was donated for auction to benefit a charitable cause.

A benefit auction for the ailing author was held in London at the annual Christmas Party of the British Fantasy Society and the funds raised sent to Wellman and his wife in a Christmas card.

WTAE has run the Project Bundle Up Auction which is an auction where local businesses donate products to be auctioned off, and the Project Bundle Up Telethon a traditional telethon where viewers call in to donate money, businesses donate money and all of the proceeds from the auction and telethon benefit the Salvation Army.

In 1994 he collaborated in the AIDS benefit auction " Sunday by the Bay " in Bellport, Long Island, New York.

Glick had won a charity auction at an AIDS benefit held by Elton John in which South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker offered a one-time guest spot on the show.

Gordon and Waltrip ultimately decided to auction the helmet for the benefit of the Harrah's Employee Relief Fund, a fund that provides aid to Harrah's employees displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

As a result, Logan confessed to his part of the crime and with bribery ( in the form of a pair of his father's boots, to be sold at auction to benefit the school ) Logan was able to get Weevil reinstated.

He is also among the 43 noted photographers invited to donate a print to " FOCUS: an auction of the finest photography to benefit City Harvest ...." The fund-raiser on September 18, 2008 supports City Harvest, a food collection bank in New York City.

Alex Glick won a guest voice role in a charity auction to benefit AIDS research.

* Time ; March 26, 1945 ; The Duchess de Talleyrand, 70, chic, spry daughter of the late financier Jay Gould, and a longtime ( 40 years ) resident of prewar France, announced that she would auction off her famed collection of orchid plants — more than 5, 000, valued at about $ 75, 000 — for the benefit of the Red Cross.

To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.

The statement was also made that undoubtedly the railroad had received some compensating benefit from the telegraphers, but that it was difficult to imagine what could balance a job for life.

The play for Saturday night was to be a benefit performance of The Octoroon.

Cuban S.S.R.: Whatever may have been the setbacks resulting from the unsuccessful attempt of the Cuban rebels to establish a beachhead on the Castro-held mainland last week, there was at least one positive benefit, and that was the clear-cut revelation to the whole world of the complete conversion of Cuba into a Russian-dominated military base.

It was just that she felt deeply about every patient on the ward and wanted to believe that they might benefit from their treatment there.

It was mostly for the benefit of the mailman, because hardly anybody else ever visited us.

Even his old literary home, Punch, where the When We Were Very Young verses had first appeared, was ultimately to reject him, as Christopher Milne details in his autobiography The Enchanted Places, although Methuen continued to publish whatever Milne wrote, including the long poem ' The Norman Church ' and an assembly of articles entitled Year In, Year Out ( which Milne likened to a benefit night for the author ).

He was forced to become the murderer in Curtain, although it was for the benefit of others.

The commission was asked to recommend changes and enhancements to the Acadia Advantage that would benefit the entire university community and ensure its sustainability.

King was a major shareholder in the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad ( later the Long Island Rail Road ) and therefore had a conflict of interest and stood to benefit by the compensation payments to the railroad from the tax assessment.

During the early 20th century, Alicante was a minor capital that enjoyed the benefit of Spain's neutrality during World War I, and that provided new opportunities for the local industry and agriculture.

A 2006 Cochrane Collaboration review of controlled trials of antipsychotics in old age dementia reported that one or two of the drugs showed a modest benefit compared to placebo in managing aggression or psychosis, but that this was combined with a significant increase in serious adverse events.

On April 8, 1995, a staged concert was held at Carnegie Hall in New York City as a benefit for the Gay Men's Health Crisis.

Most major powers repudiated Cold War assassination tactics, though many allege that this was merely a smokescreen for political benefit and that covert and illegal training of assassins continues today, with Russia, Israel, the U. S., Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, and other nations accused of still regularly engaging in such operations.

The town had the curious distinction of having the only unemployment benefit office in Britain with the insignia of King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom above the door, until the building was closed and redeveloped as housing, but the insignia was retained.

Otherwise, for the benefit of the wicked, it was more proper to set a limit for their rage by my silence, rather than any new things written to provoke daily the insanity of the envious.

" Behaviorism was a reaction against " faculty " psychology which purported to see into or understand the mind without the benefit of scientific testing.

Historically, directors ' duties have been owed almost exclusively to the company and its members, and the board was expected to exercise its powers for the financial benefit of the company.

The plaza was the site of many benefit concerts at which Bo Diddley performed during his lifetime to raise awareness about the plight of the homeless in Alachua County, and to raise money for local charities, including the Red Cross.

State-monopoly capitalism was originally a Marxist concept referring to a form of corporate capitalism in which state policy is utilized to benefit and promote the interests of dominant or established corporations by shielding them from competitive pressures or by providing them with subsidies.

Alexander Pope was inclined to give Homeric nods the benefit of the doubt: