For Companies, CSR Teams & People Ops
You don't have to be a nonprofit to use HGA.
A growing share of HGA's business isn't fundraising at all — it's companies giving away premium trips to their employees. Christmas parties. Summer events. Quarterly all-hands. Employee-of-the-quarter programs. Sales-kickoff grand prizes. Top-performer recognition. Plus the original use case: CSR auctions for partner nonprofits. Same risk-free consignment model on all of it. Same bestseller trips. Same white-glove fulfillment for the employee or donor whose name gets pulled.
Nothing on the company books up front. You only pay our reserve on the trip the winner actually picks. HR, CSR, and finance all sign off because there's nothing to sign off on — until somebody wins.
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Two audiences, same playbook: CSR fundraising and employee appreciation.
HGA was built for nonprofit fundraising. That's still the majority of what we do — over 2,000 events a year. But the consignment model that lets a nonprofit reserve a Tuscany trip with no upfront cost works just as well for a Fortune 500 CSR team auctioning a lot for a partner nonprofit, a regional business gifting a Caribbean Passport at the Christmas party, or a sales org giving away a Kentucky Derby VIP trip to the top-performing rep at sales kickoff.
The cost per program is dramatically lower than what most companies spend on logo'd swag, gift cards, or generic "appreciation" perks — and the moment is in a different universe. A trip on the screen. A name pulled. The room reacts. The employee tells the story for ten years.
And because nothing lands on your P&L until the winner picks, the conversation with finance is a 10-minute one. Reserve as many trips as you want. Pay our reserve only on the ones that were actually claimed.
Risk-free consignment, in one paragraph.
Your company reserves the trip packages it wants from our catalog at no upfront cost. You present them at your CSR auction, draw them at your Christmas party, or award them at your employee-of-the-quarter announcement. Afterward, the company pays our predetermined consignment cost only on packages that were claimed. If a package isn't claimed, you owe nothing and it comes back to us.
- No purchase, no deposit, no inventory — nothing on the company books.
- Co-branded packages available (your logo on the slide and signage).
- Multi-winner formatting on every package — one Caribbean lot can become three winners. No blackout dates.
- Pay our reserve only on the trip the winner picks. Every dollar above that is upside.
Four ways companies use HGA
Whatever the event, the consignment model fits.
Whether you're running a CSR auction for a partner nonprofit, giving away a trip at the Christmas party, recognizing your top-performing employee of the quarter, or stacking a Golden Ticket on top of any of the above — same risk-free model, same catalog, same white-glove fulfillment.
Use case 01 — CSR fundraising auction
Corporate CSR auctions for partner nonprofits.
Your company is sponsoring a benefit, hosting a charity gala for a partner nonprofit, or running an employee-giving campaign. You want premium auction lots that bid up — without procurement getting involved. HGA gives you the catalog, the media kits, the auctioneer scripts, and the white-glove winner fulfillment, all on consignment. Your CFO sees a clean P&L. Your CSR team gets a six-figure auction.
- Risk-free consignment — nothing on the corporate books
- Co-branded auction lots available (your logo on the slide)
- Multi-winner formatting on every package, no blackout dates
- TripSync / on-staff specialist plugs into your event platform
Use case 02 — Christmas & summer parties
Holiday parties and summer events with a real grand prize.
Christmas party. Summer cookout. Year-end all-hands. Hand out one (or several) trip prizes via a drawing or raffle on the night of the event. Same risk-free model — your company only pays our reserve on the trip the winner picks. The Caribbean beach getaway on the slide, the team's name pulled out of the bowl, the room loses its mind. That's the moment you're paying for.
- Drawings or raffles — your call
- Bestseller trips and Vacation Passports work best
- Marketing kit: slide, signage, and announcement copy
- Pay our reserve only on the trip the winner picks
Use case 03 — Quarterly employee appreciation
Quarterly employee giveaways and recognition programs.
Give away a trip a quarter to the employee of the quarter. Or one a year to the top performer. Or one per region per all-hands. Sales-kickoff prize, milestone-anniversary gift, retirement send-off — same model. Your company picks the trips, we send the marketing kit so your People Ops team has everything ready, you draw or award the winner, and HGA delivers the trip to the employee end-to-end. The cost per program is dramatically lower than what most companies spend on swag — and the impact is in a different universe.
- Trip-of-the-quarter, top-performer, milestone, retirement
- One employee per draw — or multiple winners per tier
- Pay our reserve only on the trip the winner picks
- We deliver to the employee — your HR team is done at the announcement
Use case 04 — $100 Golden Ticket (CSR or internal)
The $100 Golden Ticket: works for CSR auctions and Christmas parties.
For a CSR auction: sell 100–300 Golden Tickets at $100 each at your event, draw one winner the night of the event, winner picks a bucket-list trip from our catalog — adds $15K–$50K of high-margin revenue to the partner nonprofit. For an internal Christmas party: gift one Golden Ticket per employee (or per team), draw a winner at the party, winner picks the trip. Same consignment model: pay our reserve only on the prize the winner picks. No upfront cost.
- Turnkey marketing kit: poster, signage, promo video
- Works as a raffle or drawing — your call
- $100 ticket + a $250 tier for top sponsors / team leads
- Same risk-free consignment model: pay only on the winner's pick
Employee appreciation deep dive
The Christmas-party drawing your employees will talk about for ten years.
We have companies that run an HGA trip drawing every quarter — a Caribbean trip in Q1, a Tuscany Passport in Q2, a Kentucky Derby VIP package in Q3, a year-end European Passport at the Christmas party. Cost per quarter is a fraction of what they used to spend on swag. Employee retention numbers moved. Recruiting got easier. People talk about the Q3 winner all the way through Q4.
The mechanics are simple: pick a trip, send out the announcement (we provide the marketing kit), draw a winner at the all-hands or party, the winner picks the trip from the Passport (or claims the single-destination prize), and we deliver. Your company only pays our reserve on the prize the winner picks.
The HGA Process for Corporate Events
Five steps from "we have an event coming up" to "the winner is on a beach."
We give your CSR team, People Ops, or event committee everything they need so they don't have to think about it. Strategy, packages, media kits, software integration (or none if you don't need it), and white-glove winner fulfillment.
- Step 01
Meet your dedicated fundraising consultant
Every company gets a dedicated HGA fundraising consultant — a partner, not a sales rep — who scopes the use case with you (CSR auction, Christmas party, quarterly employee drawing, sales kickoff, or all of the above) and stays with you through the event.
- Step 02
Build the package mix together
Your consultant works directly with you to shape the lineup — auction lots for your CSR event or prize tiers for your internal program, sized to your audience and your budget. No proposals or pitch decks; just a partner helping you build the program.
- Step 03
Full marketing kit
Hero photography, gallery images, descriptions, slide, signage, announcement copy for your People Ops team, Golden Ticket poster + promo video — built and sent digitally.
- Step 04
Plug into your event
On ClickBid? One-click TripSync push for your CSR auction. On Greater Giving, OneCause, BidPal, Handbid, HelloFund, or anything else? Our on-staff auction software specialist sets it up. For an internal employee event with no auction software, your coordinator just sends us the winner — no platform needed.
- Step 05
Event day → white-glove fulfillment
Auction wraps or the winner is drawn. You hand off the winner. We deliver the trip — to a donor, a top performer, or the employee whose name got pulled. Your team is done.
Done-for-you marketing kit
Every package comes with a full digital marketing kit — everything HR, marketing, or your CSR team needs.
Whether the trip is going on a CSR auction screen, a Christmas party slide, or an employee-of-the-quarter announcement email, we've already built the assets. Your team isn't designing graphics the week of the event. You're not chasing stock photography. You're not writing the announcement copy. We've already done it.
Co-branding is supported on every kit — your logo on the slide, your colors on the signage, your tone in the announcement copy. We send the editable assets along with the print-ready ones.
What's in every kit
- Marketing-grade hero photography + a gallery of additional images
- Written package description sized for slide, program, or email
- Verbatim auctioneer's script (for CSR auctions)
- Announcement copy template for HR / People Ops
- Printable item card and signage
- For Golden Ticket events: poster, signage, and a promotional video
- Co-branding support: your logo + colors on the assets
Auction software (when you need it)
Whatever auction platform your CSR event uses, we'll get the trips in.
On ClickBid (or any ClickBid white-label), TripSync is a literal one-click "Add to my event" — full descriptions, hero images, gallery, terms, and reserves all flow in automatically.
On Greater Giving, OneCause, BidPal, Handbid, HelloFund, or any other platform — HGA has a dedicated, on-staff auction software specialist who knows every major platform and will set up your packages (and most of the time, your entire event) for you. You hand off your platform login, she does the upload, you approve. Soup to nuts.
For internal employee events with no auction platform — Christmas party drawings, quarterly all-hands giveaways, sales kickoff prizes — no software is needed. Your event coordinator just sends us the winner's name and trip choice and we take it from there.
One workflow, end-to-end.
- 1Pick packagesFrom our catalog or your specialist's tailored list.
- 2Plug into your eventClickBid → one-click TripSync. Other auction software → our specialist sets it up. Internal event → no software needed.
- 3Event dayBidders bid (CSR auction) or names are drawn (employee event).
- 4Send the winner overPlatform export or a one-line email — whatever fits the event.
- 5We deliver the tripWhite-glove fulfillment for the donor or the employee.
The Consignment Advantage
Maximize the impact of your corporate event. Minimize the risk to your P&L.
Premium upside without your finance team fronting a dime. Reserve at no cost, run your event, your company only pays our reserve on the trip the winner picks. The cleanest fundraising or employee-appreciation paper your finance team has ever seen.
Zero upfront cost
No purchase, no inventory, no deposit. Nothing on the company books. If a prize isn't claimed, you owe nothing for it. Ever.
Premium catalog
Bestseller travel and bucket-list experiences your employees and donors actually want — not the gift-card-and-swag bar most companies clear.
Turnkey + done-for-you
Marketing kit, announcement copy, TripSync push (or no platform if you don't need it), and white-glove winner fulfillment.
Sell the trip. Hand us the winner. You're done.
Send us the winner's name, email, and phone — that's the entire hand-off. Within 24 hours, a dedicated HGA booking specialist reaches out and your team is officially done. No itineraries, no follow-up emails, no "did they ever book?" anxiety. Your nonprofit gets the credit; we do the work.
The only thing the nonprofit owes us is the winner's name, email, and phone. We submit the trip and contact them within 24 hours.
Every winner gets a real human at HGA — same name, same inbox, from first call to wheels-down.
No blackout dates. Winners have 24 months to lock their dates (not to travel — to book).
Our in-house booking and customer-service teams handle every detail. Donors brag about the trip — and about the way the nonprofit treated them.
There is no cap on how many times a package can be put in front of bidders — same night, next event, every year. Reserve once, sell again and again. The nonprofit only ever pays the consignment cost on trips that actually sell.
Built for every kind of corporate event
CSR auctions, employee appreciation, and everything in between.
The HGA model fits every company event where a great trip on a screen makes a moment. Fundraising or appreciation, in person or virtual, Fortune 500 or 50-person regional business — same risk-free consignment, same catalog, same fulfillment.
Frequently asked
Corporate, CSR & employee appreciation, answered.
Make the moment your employees (or donors) talk about all year.
Risk-free consignment trips. CSR auctions for partner nonprofits. Christmas-party drawings. Quarterly employee appreciation. Sales-kickoff grand prizes. Top-performer recognition. The $100 Golden Ticket. All on the same model: pay our reserve only on the trip the winner picks.
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