"We are thrilled to bring the Gay Bachelor Auction back for a sixth year," said Claire Oliver, a co-coordinator for the event. "There are so many exciting new changes that will surely please the crowd."
Oliver is joined by Jason Vincik who also coordinates the auction.
"Last year the auction made over $12,000," Vincik said. "This
year we will be able to distribute funds to multiple charities through All
Tri. We're very excited about this new change in our structure."
Previous auctions directly benefited The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, an organization that both Oliver and Vincik continue to support. Both organizers have lost loved ones to blood cancers, including a past bachelor who died in 2007 of non Hodgkin's lymphoma.
For more information about All Tri, please visit
www.alltri.org.
"We had such a great response from our original site that was built two
years ago," says Jason Vincik, co-chair of the Gay Bachelor Auction.
"Internet technology changes every day, so It was time to upgrade our site
architecture and include tools like RSS feeds."
Claire Oliver, co-chair and triathlon coach for
All-Tri, says "I really think everyone is going to
love the new Web site. It's easy to navigate and it
also has some back-end tools that help us keep
organized."
The Gay Bachelor Auction is an event associated with
Oliver's participation
in All-Tri, a nonprofit organization that trains athletes to complete a
triathlon in exchange for charitable fundraising.
Oliver explains "What makes All-Tri such an amazing organization is that
participants not only get professional athletic training, but they also have
the opportunity to donate proceeds from their fundraising to the charity of
their choice."
Oliver and the rest of the Gay Bachelor Auction committee are voting next
week to decide which charities to support with proceeds from the 2009 event.
To view the new Gay Bachelor Auction Web site, please visit
www.gayauction.org. For more information about All-Tri, please visit
www.alltri.org.