Contact a few celebrities from your area or industry and ask them to participate in your fundraiser. See if they will donate some genre appropriate memorabilia that they have autographed. See if they will donate some of their time to auction an interactive session. This session could be a batting practice with a local baseball player. It could be the opportunity to join a radio show of a local DJ. You could get a local artist to paint a portrait of the auction winner. Have a local chef give a cooking lesson. There are numerous ways a local celebrity can donate their time to assist any organization. If you are having a large get together, you can coordinate an auction with other events, such as an autograph signing table, where you have people pay a fixed price for an autograph. Many celebrities who are no longer in the spotlight will gladly sign autographs at events for a percentage of the proceeds. You could arrange for a celebrity to speak at your event and charge a cover to enter. Don’t forget the concessions for those long autograph lines!