For the past eight years, Westminster College, a nonprofit college in Salt Lake City with 2,500 students, has held an annual live and silent auction to raise scholarship money. But next year, there won’t be an auction. “Even though our auctions were successful overall, we had to admit that the staff and volunteer time involved in getting several hundred auction items donated, tracked, and presented did not measure up against the money [the auctions] raised for student…

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