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ATLANTA (July 10, 2025) — The 2025 Carter 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 Carter 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 Carter Center Weekend since President Carter’s passing,” said the Carter Center’s CEO, Paige Alexander. “We are so grateful for our supporters’ continued generosity, which enables us to carry forward the Carters’ 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. Carter reuniting at the pearly gates after President Carter’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, Â鶹´«Ã½É«ÇéƬ 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 Carter, taken by Pulitzer Prize-nominated photographer Dan Farrell, showing President Carter jumping a fence at LaGuardia Airport in 1976, $85,000
• An original painting of irises created to commemorate Mrs. Carter 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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