eBay Buyers and Sellers Gave a Record $54.8 Million to Thousands of Nonprofits in 2010

• A lunch with billionaire investor Warren Buffett sold for $2.6 million, with 100% of the sale benefitting San Francisco’s Glide Memorial Church.
• Celebrity Twitter mentions and followings, auctioned off by TwitChange.com — winner of Mashable’s most creative social good campaign in 2010 — with the help of celebrities like Eva Longoria, Kim Kardashian and Justin Bieber, raised $540,631 in less than one week for aHomeInHaiti.org.
• Memorabilia and props from the Nicaragua season of “Survivor” raised $250,000, benefitting The Serpentine Project and Operation Smile.
• Items from Oprah Winfrey’s wardrobe raised $150,000 for The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy Foundation.

eBay is also changing the way small, local nonprofits fundraise, with many using eBay Giving Works in an entrepreneurial effort to reach more customers and donors. Angel Acres Horse Haven in Pennsylvania rescues healthy, young American horses who would otherwise be sold for human consumption in Europe and Asia. Last year, Angel Acres — with only one full-time employee — raised more than $23,000 from the eBay community, 20 percent of its annual budget.