Donate via PayPal, credit card, or debit card.
Your contributions are fully tax-deductible.
Silent Auction Items Needed
If you would like to sponsor a silent auction item or service, please contact Gina Tripi at ginamtripi@gmail.com.
Examples of great goodies for the silent auction:
- dinners at wonderful restaurants
- weekend getaways
- royal treatment at day-spas
- one-of-a kind artwork
- hand-made quilts
- unique gifts
Festival-goers can see or read about the items all during the event and record their bids. The winner of each item is announced at the end of the festival (but need not be present to win).
Other Materials Needed
Contributions don’t always have to be in the form of money. If you’d care to donate or lend materials, here are some of the things we typically need:
- Golf carts
- Fire wood (seasoned hardwood, no green stuff)
- Fat wood and fire lighters (no liquid fire starter)
- Heavy-duty outdoor extension cords
- Arts and crafts materials for Kids’ Nature Village
- seasonal items like pumpkins, bundles of corn stalks, potted mums, etc. to decorate the stage area
- lamps, sturdy coffee tables and end tables for the band tent
How donations are used
HemlockFest is brought to you by the Lumpkin Coalition, which is a 501(c)3 charitable organization. Our staff and officers are unpaid volunteers. The organization is run on your generosity of sponsorships, fundraising, and donations.
- Raise awareness of what the Hemlock problem is
- Provide funding to beetle labs that produce beetles to help fight the parasite
- Help public agencies with the health of Hemlock trees
- Facilitate projects that benefit North Georgia
