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ACA Foundation Silent Auction: June 9-12, 2025

January 10, 2025: Calling on all ACA creatives!

With the conference only months away it is time to start thinking about the ACA Foundation’s silent auction.  Do you have anything wild or wonderful you could donate?  Please help support the Foundation’s work advancing education for students and professionals in the archival sciences, record keeping and information management. Our Executive Director has already started to make a denim/tartan bunny…. 

If you wish to donate an item, or craft/create/make an item for the auction, we would love to feature your generosity using the auction app “FollowMyBid” which will open June 9^th and close June 12^th, 2025. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Kyle Pugh, treasurer [at] archivists.ca

To make a donation please fill out the following form:

https://archivists_ca.formstack.com/forms/aca_foundation_annual_auction_call_for_items

Ancestry Continuing Education Award 2024

April 23, 2024: This year the Association for Canadian Archivists Foundation received a record number of submissions, and all were amazing.  As a result, the decision was very difficult to make! We want to thank those who applied this year, the future looks bright. The Foundation is pleased to announce the winner of the 2024 Ancestry Continuing Education Award to Gifty Asamoah, a Masters' student in Archival Studies at the University of Manitoba.

ACA Foundation - Make it Monthly

March 1, 2024: The ACAF is launching a new monthly donation campaign starting this March and we invite you to participate!

Monthly donations are a great way to make a big impact and help us achieve our goals for the year. With your help, we can continue our work of supporting the educational and research needs of the Canadian Archival profession. And for a limited time, we can help increase the impact of your gift.

Throughout March, create a new monthly gift of $20 or more in support of the ACA Foundation through CanadaHelps, and CanadaHelps will make a one-time extra $20 donation to our charity!* You can read more about the full terms and conditions here.

Please consider creating a new monthly gift of $20 or more through CanadaHelps to support us. Your donation will help us achieve our goals and make a big impact. Thank you for your support!

ACA Foundation - Giving Tuesday

Are you, or someone you know, a Crafter, a Maker, or an Artist?

If so - the Association of Canadian Archivists Foundation (ACAF) needs your inspired creations and/or your creative connections!

We are looking for donations of creative works towards our silent online auction which will take place during the ACA's 48th Annual Conference, Belonging- Considering archival bonds and disconnects.

You don't need to be an ACA member to contribute, or to bid - all are welcome and encouraged to get involved!

The Directors of the Association of Canadian Archivists Foundation (ACAF)  are looking forward to the first auction since 2019. This year's auction will take place in person and online using FollowMyBid.

If you are able to contribute to this year's auction, you can complete this form:

https://archivists_ca.formstack.com/forms/aca_foundation_annual_auction_call_for_items

Images and descriptions will become available to community members June 28, 2023.

Sincerely,

Kyle Pugh, ACAF Director and Chair

Shannon Hodge

Daniel German

John Richan

ACAF Secretariat