This year’s Bids 4 Kids fundraiser is a pirate adventure! Dress-up encouraged, but not required.

Schedule for the Evening

6 pm Event Begins and activities open!

6-8 pm Heavy tropical appetizers available (catered by Hoffman House)

8:30 pm Basket & 50/50 Raffles Drawn

9:00 pm Pirate Basket Grand Prize Drawn, 50/50 Raffle Announced, Silent Auction Closes and Winners Announced

9:30 pm Checkout table opens

10 pm Event Ends

FREE:

• Admission

• Food, Soda, Non-Alcoholic Seltzers

• Activities, including the chance to win the door prize worth $100!

Costs:

• Basket Raffles, 50/50 Raffle: $10 for 12 tickets, or $20 for 25 tickets (cash or check)

• Wine Pull: $20/bottle or 3 for $50 (cash or check)

• Cash Bar: $5 drinks (beer, seltzer, wine, ciders - cash or check)

• Silent Auction: Cash, Check, Credit Card (or via Tads Account for current families)

Thank you to this year’s donors:

Arntzen Family, Badger Family, Bannach Family, Basics Co-op Natural Foods, Beloit Skycarp Baseball, Beyer/Keating Family, Blain’s Farm & Fleet, Brockman Family, Brusca Family, Calladora Spa, Cave of the Mounds, Centra Chiropractic, Comedy on State, Dahl Family, Ellie Joe Design Co., Elizabeth Wadle, Festival Foods, Flow and Co. Wellnes Studio, Growing Roots, Fraundorfer Family, Geneva National Golf Club and Resort, Gordie Boucher Ford Lincoln of Janesville, Green Bay Packers, Grefsheim Family, Hamburg Family, Harbor Shores on Lake Geneva, Helgestad Family, Hermann/Applebaum Family, Hoffmann House, Hope Robbins, Horvath Family, Hy-Vee, Illinois Railway Museum, Janesville Athletic Club, Janesville Country Club, Janesville Jets Hockey, Jones Family, Kline Family, Klobucar Family, Lueck Family, Marigold Speech & Pathology Services, Markestad Family, Mary Wadle, Matulle Family, McGovern Family, Milwaukee Admirals, Milwaukee Brewers, Milwaukee Public Museum, Mount Olympus Resorts, Mrazik Family, Nass Family, National River Museum and Aquarium, Northleaf Winery, Ofori Family, Parpart Family, Patel Family, Piefer Family, Pierce Family, Popp Family, Potter Family, Rejuvenation Spa, Rinehart Targets, Running Family, RPMS Staff, Santa’s Village Amusement & Water Park, Sarah Krause, Savannah & Pearl, Schlaefer Family, Shekhani Family, Singer Family, Smith-Tyge Family, Springer Family, Towne Country Club, Upper Elementary Class, Urfer Family, VonBank Family, Wiese Family, Wild Hunt Prints, Winter Family, Woodman’s Markets, Wright Family.

2024 BIDS 4 KIDS RECAP

Thank you to everyone who came out and celebrated our 30th anniversary and 20th annual Bids 4 Kids event! We raised over $8000 due to our generous donors, sponsors and bidders!

Thank you to our 2024 donors: 

Arntzen Family, Barlass Family, Basics, Becker Family, Beloit Skycarp Baseball, Beyer/Keating Family, Blain Supply, Brockman Family, Burke Family, Cave of the Mounds, Comedy on State, Dahl Family, DeLong Company, Discovery World, Dittmann Family, Growing Roots, First National Bank & Trust, Forward Theater Company, Fraundorfer Family, Gordie Boucher Ford, Green Bay Packers, Grefsheim Family, Hamburg Family, Harbor Shores on Lake Geneva, Hermann/Applebaum Family, Hunt-N-Gear, Hy-Vee, Janesville Athletic Club, Janesville Country Club, Janesville Jets Hockey, Klobucar Family, Ludeman Family, Madison Ballet, Martha Carver, Martin Family, McCarthy Family, McGovern Family, Milwaukee Admirals, Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee World Festival, Inc., Ellen Murphy, National River Museum and Aquarium, Northleaf Winery, Olbrich Gardens, Orange Tree Imports, Parpart Family, Patel Family, Pierce Family, Popp Family, Potter Family, Precision Building Solutions, Rejuvenation Spa, Rinehart Targets, Hope Robbins, RPMS Staff, Samra Family, Schuster’s Farm, Sean Tompkins Sporting Goods, Shekhani Family, Singer Family,, Springer Family, VonBank Family.s.