Once again, Captivating celebrates another year of empowering women, educating children, and elevating communities in remote rural China.
On October 11th, in collaboration with the Shenzhen Charity Federation, Captivating is holding their 17th Annual Captivating Charity Auction with the theme:
ONE ACT, ENDLESS IMPACT
Join us for a night of creating endless impact. Together, we will stand to bring genuine hope to another 1,000 lives.
OUR 2025 CHARITY AUCTION GOAL: RMB 1.5 MILLION
With your support, 1,000 underprivileged students, young women, moms, and their children will see their lives progress this year.
Captivating, in full collaboration with the Shenzhen Charity Federation, works with registered grassroots Chinese charities to implement and expand their life changing programs across Qinghai, Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou provinces.
OUR MISSION
We believe within every child lives the potential for greatness – something of incredible value they can offer to their world. For some, much of this value is lost because of poverty or prejudice. Our mission is to see disadvantaged, impoverished, poorest-of-the-poor children soar – see them reach out for a better tomorrow.
Become a CORPORATE SPONSOR at our October 11 event.
Please contact serena@captivating.org directly for more details.
Captivating 再次庆祝为中国偏远农村地区女性赋权、教育儿童、提升社区的又一年。
Captivating 与深圳市慈善会联合举办的第十六届慈善拍卖晚会将于2025年10月11日在深圳福田香格里拉大酒店举行。
晚会主题：
ONE ACT, ENDLESS IMPACT
加入我们，共同创造无限影响力之夜。让我们齐心协力，为另外 1,000 个生命带来真正的希望。
2025 慈善拍卖会筹款目标：150 万元人民币
您的支持将极大改善 1,000 余名学生，年轻女性，妈妈和孩子们的困境生活。
Captivating 与深圳市慈善会全面合作，携手合法注册的中国草根慈善机构，在青海、四川、云南和贵州省实施和扩大改变生活的救助项目。
我们的使命
我们相信，每个孩子都拥有巨大潜能，可以为世界做出伟大贡献。出于贫穷或偏见，有些孩子的天赋被全然忽视了。Captivating 的使命是看到这些弱势的，生活在贫困中的儿童能够翱翔于天际，创造更美好的明天。
成为10月11日拍卖会活动赞助商。
请联系 tracy@captivating.org 了解更多信息.
ALL ABOUT THE GIRL
Read more about our programs in China in this latest edition of All About the Girl.
ALL ABOUT THE GIRL | July to December 2024
EVENT DETAILS
Date: Saturday, October 11th, 2025
Time: 5:30 pm
Place: Futian Shangri-la, Shenzhen
4088 Yitian Road, Futian District, Shenzhen, China
QUESTIONS
EMAIL: charityauction@captivating.org
PHONE: +86 755 2667 4830
All proceeds from the event support the work of the CAPTIVATING and its China based partners.
You can also visit Captivating International’s website to learn more www.captivating.org.
Join Us as a Sponsor
and get priority seating at our Annual Charity Auction
For more information, please contact serena@captivating.org (English) or tracy@captivating.org (English and Chinese)
See all the details in our Sponsorship Package 2025
Thank You to Our Sponsors
感谢您，我们的赞助商们
We are so grateful for the support of our corporate partners, who are committed to helping us reach our goal of helping 1,000 underprivileged students, young women, moms, and their children in Western China. Together, we are helping make a difference in the lives of so many, THANK YOU!
我们非常感谢我们的企业赞助商们的支持，他们致力于帮助我们达成帮助中国西部地区的 1,000 名困境学生，年轻女性，妈妈和她们的孩子在今年改变她们的生活的目标。
为我们正在一起帮助如此多人创不同，对您致以诚挚的感谢！
Want to be a sponsor and have priority seating at our Annual Charity Auction and Gala?
For more information please contact serena@captivating.org (English) or tracy@captivating.org (English and Chinese)
加入我们成为慈善拍卖会的赞助商并拥有优先地座席。想要了解更多请联系 tracy@captivating.org
DIAMOND SPONSOR (¥160,000)
If you want to become a DIAMOND SPONSOR,
please contact serena@captivating.org or tracy@captivating.org
GOLD SPONSOR (¥80,000)
If you want to become a GOLD SPONSOR,
please contact serena@captivating.org or tracy@captivating.org
SILVER SPONSOR (¥40,000)
If you want to become a SILVER SPONSOR,
please contact serena@captivating.org or tracy@captivating.org
BRONZE SPONSOR (¥20,000)
If you want to become a BRONZE SPONSOR,
please contact serena@captivating.org or tracy@captivating.org
EVENT PARTNERS
If you want to become an EVENT PARTNER,
please contact serena@captivating.org or tracy@captivating.org
MEDIA PARTNERS
If you want to become a MEDIA PARTNER,
please contact serena@captivating.org or tracy@captivating.org
我谨代表深圳市慈善会·开普威汀基金，
衷心感谢深圳
感谢你再次向世界展示了这座城市的非凡魅力！
作为一个社区共同体，我们通过慷慨的行动，真正诠释了“
本场活动筹款总额约为 103 万元人民币。
因为这个夜晚，以及得益于我们出色的企业项目赞助商的支持，
- 180位为家庭辛苦维持生计的母亲将参加开普威汀的“
牲畜家禽饲养”项目，在该项目中，她们将获得优质的猪仔和鸡苗， 以及为期8个月的培训和支持。这将使她们有机会增加每月的收入， 从而惠及她们360多个孩子和年迈的父母； - 青海省的30位母亲将接受专业的裁缝培训，
使她们能够在偏远的家中或当地裁缝店赚取收入，惠及60多人， 包括孩子和年迈的父母； - 在偏远的四川、云南和贵州，将有500名贫困学生获得支持，
顺利完成新一年的高中学习， 减轻他们和面临高昂学费的父母的经济负担； - 在偏远地区的1,300名小学生将在下一年获得一名志愿教师
的帮助。此活动使开普威汀能够在接下来的12个月内实现支持30 名教师的目标。
感谢所有的活动组织者，辛勤付出的拍卖委员会和百余名志愿者，
当然这只是刚刚开始，在接下来执行项目的过程中，
写到这里，最后特别感谢深圳市慈善会，感谢由 Serena Cole, Tracy Chen, Lynn Velez, Ashely Stahle 带领的出色深圳团队。你们兢兢业业，尽忠职守，
我们热爱深圳！感谢您与我们同行！让我们一起说“我们与你们同行
如果您对活动有好的建议，我们非常希望能得到您的反馈！
Shenzhen, You’ve Done it Again!
On behalf of the Shenzhen Charity Federation CAPTIVATING Fund, thank you so much for once again, confirming for the world what an amazing community of people you are. Saturday, 12th October, 2024 saw 500 people come together to help improve the lives of young girls, moms, and their children. Once again, our thanks to the wonderful team at the Futian Shangri-la, Shenzhen for working with the Captivating auction committee team and so many volunteers to put on an amazing event.
Together, as a community village, we confirmed through our actions and generosity that we are indeed “Standing with You” to the 1,000 lives we will help progress over this next year together. These 1,000 lives (single moms, young women, and children) across Yunnan, Qinghai, Sichuan, Guangxi and Guizhou Provinces are specifically selected as those who are most in need of additional support to help progress. Together, we have made this next step possible – another step forward into better and more stable futures. At CAPTIVATING, we are thrilled to make this possible in partnership with the Shenzhen Charity Federation and our registered on-the-ground charity partners. And, we have this amazing Shenzhen community to thank for it.
We can confirm an amazing, RMB 1.03 million was raised thanks to this event. We are thrilled.
Because of this night, and thanks to the support of our incredible corporate project sponsors, over the coming 12 months:
- 180 moms struggling to make ends meet for their families will be trained in Captivating’s Pigs, Poultry & Prosperity Program where they will receive quality pigs and chickens, along with 8 months of training and support. This gives them the opportunity to increase their monthly earning capacity, benefiting their 360+ children and aging parents as a result;
- 30 moms in Qinghai province will receive specialized tailoring training making it possible for them to earn income from their remote home locations and local tailoring businesses, benefiting upwards of 60+ lives including children and aging parents;
- 500 underprivileged students in remote Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou will be supported through another year of senior high school, bringing financial relief to both them and their parents struggling with the costs of senior schooling; and
- 1,300 primary school students across remote locations will have a volunteer teacher help them through this next year. This event enables Captivating to reach our goal of supporting 30 teachers over these next 12 months.
To all of our event organizers; our incredibly hard-working auction committee and over 100 volunteers; our amazing school and business community; the many companies who donated goods for auction; our amazing group of artists and their artwork this year (co-curated by Brittan Aebischer & Serena Cole); our awesome MC Jeremy Sargent, and amazing auctioneer Tyler Colquhoun who worked hard for a solid 3 hours; our sound and lighting crew and DJ Pax who lead our audio/visual team for the 12th year; our incredibly generous corporate sponsors; event partners; and of course to you, our 500 guests – THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH. You’ve helped underwrite the work of the Shenzhen Charity Federations CAPTIVATING fund and programs for another year.
Of course this is just the beginning. We’d love you to stay connected with us as we work to implement all that has been made possible thanks to this event. We look forward to updating you over the coming year on how these projects go. Be sure to keep an eye out for emails and social media updates that come out on a semi-regular basis.
As we sign off I have one last thank you. To our AMAZING, consistent and loyal Shenzhen Captivating team, and to the team at the Shenzhen Charity Federation. Your desire to keep doing this year after year is astounding and we are so lucky to have had such a committed team for so many years. A special call-out to Serena Cole, Tracy Chen, Lynn Velez and Ashley Stahle who always lead from the front, supported by an amazing team. Your efficiency, event management and problem-solving skills are second to none. We are so proud of what you’ve done. Each year seems to get better than the last, and we have you all to thank for it. Congratulations and thank you.
We love you Shenzhen. Thank you for “standing with us”, so that together we can say “we’re standing with you”.
If you have any great suggestions for the event, we would love to hear your feedback! Please feel free to reach out to us at charityauction@captivating.org
PHOTO GALLERY 2024
Saturday, Oct 21, 2023 – Shenzhen, you’ve done it again! This night will go down as one of the more challenging events we’ve organized with so much uncertainty, however, that didn’t stop a capacity crowd of 510 guests turning up ready to party and change the world.
Together, we’ve DREAMED for new possibilities, BELIEVED that together we can make a difference, and ACHIEVED our goal of helping 1,000 lives (single moms, young women, and children) across Yunnan, Qinghai, Sichuan, Guangxi, and Guizhou Provinces take another step forward into better and more stable futures. We’re thrilled to be tasked with making that happen, and have this amazing Shenzhen community to thank for it.
We can confirm an amazing, RMB 1.31 million was raised thanks to this event. We are thrilled.
Because of this night, over the coming 12 months (some starting within a matter of weeks):
- 180 moms struggling to make ends meet for their families will be trained in Captivating’s Pigs, Poultry & Prosperity Program where they will receive quality pigs and chickens, along with 8 months of training and support. This gives them the opportunity to increase their monthly earning capacity, benefiting their 360+ children and aging parents as a result;
- 600 underprivileged students in remote Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou will be supported through another year of senior high or vocational school, bringing financial relief to both them and their parents struggling with the costs of senior schooling; and
- Over 1,000 primary school students across remote locations will have a volunteer teacher help them through this next year. 30 teachers were supported thanks to this event.
We would again like to thank the amazing, consistent, and loyal Shenzhen Captivating team, the team at Shenzhen Charity Federation, the team at Futian Shangri-la, Shenzhen, our Captivating team, our partners, and volunteers, for working together and making this event happen.
Saturday, Oct 15, 2022 – Shenzhen, you’ve done it again! This night will go down as one of the more challenging events we’ve organized with so much uncertainty, however, that didn’t stop a capacity crowd of 510 guests turning up ready to party and change the world.
Together, we “Dared to Dream”, and as a result of the generosity of everyone who attended, we were able to raise RMB 1.4 million, creating a direct impact on 1,000 lives (single moms, young women, and children) across provinces and remote locations in China. Over the coming 12 months:
- 120 women will be trained in Captivating’s My First Job Program as professional tailors and embroiderers, giving them the opportunity to increase their monthly earning capacity benefitting more than 240 children and aging parents
- 600 underprivileged students will be supported through another year of senior high or vocational school
- 30 volunteer teachers will be supported helping 1,000 primary school students in remote schools through the next school year
We would again like to thank the amazing, consistent, and loyal Shenzhen Captivating team, the team at Shenzhen Charity Federation, the team at Futian Shangri-la, Shenzhen, our Captivating team, our partners, and volunteers, for working together and making this event happen.
13th Annual Charity Auction
Saturday, Oct 16, 2021 was a record breaking year of attendance with over 600 guests, and a record-breaking year of impact. On behalf of the Shenzhen Charity Federation, thank you so much, Shenzhen, for confirming once again what an amazing community of people you are. We are also thankful to the wonderful team at the Futian Shangri-la, Shenzhen, for working with the Captivating team and volunteers to put on an amazing event.
“Together, we were definitely ONE”, and as a result of the generosity of everyone who attended, 1,000 lives (single moms, young women, and children) across Yunnan, Qinghai, Sichuan, and Guizhou provinces will feel the direct result of your support.
We can confirm an amazing record-breaking RMB 1.82 million was raised thanks to this event. Because of this, over the coming 12 months:
- 90 women will be trained as assistant chefs and professional tailors, enabling them to provide better support to their 200 children and aging parents
- 450 underprivileged students will be supported through another year of senior high or vocational school
- 20 volunteer teachers will be supported and sent across remote schools, helping 1,000 primary school students through the next school year
12th Annual Charity Auction
Saturday, Oct 17, 2020 – In a year where so many people are finding life challenging due to COVID, we have been once again so humbled by the generosity shown by our Shenzhen and wider community. Our goal for the night was to raise RMB 1.5 million and we were completely unsure what to expect coming into the night. Although an exact result is yet to be finalized, early indications indicate we have raised RMB 1.26 million. WE ARE THRILLED. SHENZHEN, YOU ARE AMAZING!
On behalf of the Shenzhen Charity Federation, thank you SO MUCH for being a part of our 12th year, Saturday, 17th October, 2020. And, once again, our thanks to the wonderful team at the Futian Shangri-la, Shenzhen.
Together, as a result of the generosity of everyone who attended, 1,000 lives (single moms, young women, and their children) will one day look back on 2020 as a turnaround year for them. A year of new beginnings and fortune.
Over these next 12 months (some starting within a matter of weeks):
- 125 single moms will start their own pig businesses and better support their 400 children and aging parents;
- 150 women with be trained as assistant chefs and professional tailors, then mentored into their first job. This will help them better support their 450 children and parents; and
- 100 teenage girls will get back to school by starting a career of their choosing at vocational school. They will be joining another 200 girls already enrolled in this program.
11th Annual Charity Auction
Saturday, Oct 12, 2019 – As the dust settles on our 11th Annual Captivating Charity Auction, we are left with nothing but gratitude and praise for the amazing community we are lucky to be surrounded by. Shenzhen, you were amazing.
Thank you SO MUCH for your support of our 10th year in China. Saturday night, 13th October, will be remembered for a long time as a night of grace, emotion, laughter, excitement, astonishment and exceeding generosity. Together, you raised RMB 1.4 million, helping Captivating in partnership with the Shenzhen Charity Federation, Shamtse Charity and LOVEQTRA, to seal the deal on impacting the lives of close to 1,000 girls this calendar year. SHENZHEN, YOU DID IT.
Having set an aggressive aim of raising RMB1.5 millions, we only dreamed we could get this close. In the process, over the coming 12 months (some starting within a matter of weeks):
- 100 single moms will start with own pig business
- 100 families will own their own greenhouse
- 400 children will be more secure in their schooling
- 427 women will attend health training
- 46 girls will start vocational schooling
- 80 girls will continue to be supported at the Seng Girls Home.
If you wish to look back on this event, visit this Photo Gallery.
10th Annual Charity Auction
Saturday, Oct 13, 2018 – As the dust settles on our 10th Annual Captivating Charity Auction, we are left with nothing but gratitude and praise for the amazing community we are lucky to be surrounded by. Shenzhen, you were amazing.
Thank you SO MUCH for your support of our 10th year in China. Saturday night, 13th October, will be remembered for a long time as a night of grace, emotion, laughter, excitement, astonishment and exceeding generosity. Together, you raised RMB 1.4 million, helping Captivating in partnership with the Shenzhen Charity Federation, Shamtse Charity and LOVEQTRA, to seal the deal on impacting the lives of close to 1,000 girls this calendar year. SHENZHEN, YOU DID IT.
Having set an aggressive aim of raising RMB1.5 millions, we only dreamed we could get this close. In the process, over the coming 12 months (some starting within a matter of weeks):
- 100 single moms will start with own pig business
- 100 families will own their own greenhouse
- 400 children will be more secure in their schooling
- 427 women will attend health training
- 46 girls will start vocational schooling
- 80 girls will continue to be supported at the Seng Girls Home
9th Annual Charity Auction
Saturday, Oct 14, 2017 – Because you cared:
- 57 girls received a second chance at getting an education
- Over 300 women received desperately needed medical exams and health and hygiene education for themselves and to share with their daughters
- 100 new greenhouses were funded allowing families to feed themselves and earn enough money to keep their kids to school
- 104 single mothers started their own pig breeding business after receiving expert training and two breeding sows
- 100 girls at the Seng Girls Home continued in their education program.
HUGE thanks to our Shenzhen community of supporters. 2017 was our best fundraising result EVER. See you next year.
8th Annual Charity Auction
Saturday, October 22, 2016 – Once again saw guests filling the grand ballroom of the Futian Shangri-La, Shenzhen China, in support of the Annual Captivating Charity Auction. The event, now in its 8th year, was run in partnership with the Shenzhen Charity Federation – a fantastic partnership that will continue into the future. The evening was amazing. The results were worth it. Net revenue for the night after deducting event and venue expenses was an amazing RMB 1.08 million.
Through Captivating’s charity partners: The Shenzhen Charity Federation, SHAMTSE, and LOVEQTRA (The Seng Girls Home), funds raised from this year’s event were used to impact the lives of more than 1,000 girls and many of their families in remote locations of Western China. With a focus on solutions such as greenhouses, solar panels, animal husbandry, health education and vocational school scholarships, Captivating and their partners made dreams come true thanks to the generosity of donors and sponsors like you.
7th Annual Charity Auction
Saturday, October 17, 2015 marked Captivating International’s 7th Annual Charity Gala & Auction once again at the glamorous Futian Shangri-La. Attended by a record breaking (and maximum capacity) 597 guests from Shenzhen and Hong Kong, the evening was awarded the ‘best event ever’ label by many long-term event attendees. Our thanks to an amazing auction committee and team for so many hours of dedicated work. The results were worth it, raising HK$1.6m (US$215k) to support the work in Nepal and Western China.
6th Annual Charity Auction
Saturday, October 11, 2014 marked Captivating International’s 6th Annual Charity Gala & Auction at the Futian Shangri-La, Shenzhen, China. Attended by 530 guests largely from Shenzhen’s foreign community, the event started with an amazing high energy dance performance by students from local international schools, QSI & SIS, along with several girls from the Seng Girls Vocational School and Home program. This wonderful dance set the tone for the night to the theme, “We are full of Wonder” – testament to the fact that all children around the world have so much to offer, and yet many cannot do so because of poverty, injustice or prejudice. Thanks to amazing sponsors, donors and auction winners, RMB1.56 million was raised to support work in Western China through approved local charities.
Be a Volunteer
Watch this video to see what our volunteers do and why we love them!
Contact tracy@captivating.org or serena@captivating.org for more details.