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ATLANTA (July 10, 2025) — The 2025 Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà Center Weekend raised more than $2.4 million in donations and auction sales to support the Center’s mission of waging peace, fighting disease, and easing human suffering around the world. The annual fundraiser, held June 26–29 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, featured updates from Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà Center leadership, briefings on the Center’s peace and health initiatives, local excursions, and live and silent auctions.

“This year was the first time we gathered for a Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà Center Weekend since President Áù¾ÅÉ«ÌÃ’s passing,” said the Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà Center’s CEO, Paige Alexander. “We are so grateful for our supporters’ continued generosity, which enables us to carry forward the Áù¾ÅÉ«ÌÃs’ enduring legacy of promoting peace, fighting disease, and protecting human rights around the world.”

The top bid in the live auction was $400,000 for a former auctioneer’s cowboy hat, which has become a coveted collectible and is signed by each winner and re-donated the next year. A signed cartoon by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mike Luckovich, originally published in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, sold for $100,000. The cartoon depicted President and Mrs. Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà reuniting at the pearly gates after President Áù¾ÅÉ«ÌÃ’s passing.

In the silent auction, a signed Yamaha acoustic guitar from singer-songwriter James Taylor sold for $37,000.

Other auction items that commanded top bids included:

• A guitar featuring the signatures of rock ‘n’ roll icons Eddie Van Halen, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Carlos Santana, Slash, Neil Young, The Edge, and Pete Townshend, $185,000
• A limited-edition art portfolio with “views of human rights” from artists and global leaders, including the Dalai Lama, Maya Angelou, and Bob Dylan, $100,000
• A signed photo by President Áù¾ÅÉ«ÌÃ, taken by Pulitzer Prize-nominated photographer Dan Farrell, showing President Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà jumping a fence at LaGuardia Airport in 1976, $85,000
• An original painting of irises created to commemorate Mrs. Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà by artist Jerome Lawrence, $75,000

More winning bids can be viewed in the catalogs below.

• Live auction catalog: 
• Silent auction catalog: 

All proceeds will support the Center’s ongoing initiatives to wage peace, fight disease, and build hope in the world’s most underserved and marginalized communities.

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The Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà Center
Waging Peace. Fighting Disease. Building Hope.

A not-for-profit, nongovernmental organization, The Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà Center has helped to improve life for people in over 80 countries by resolving conflicts; advancing democracy, human rights, and economic opportunity; preventing diseases; and improving mental health care. The Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà Center was founded in 1982 by former U.S. President Jimmy Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà and former First Lady Rosalynn Áù¾ÅÉ«ÌÃ, in partnership with Emory University, to advance peace and health worldwide.