I am very pleased to let you know that $1,287.50 was raised at the recent Association of Canadian Archivists conference in Halifax to benefit the Association of Canadian Archivists Foundation (ACAF). The Foundation is the fund-raising and fund-granting arm of the ACA. Recent activities of the Foundation include providing financial support to defray the travel costs of the three graduate student presenters at the Student Session at this year's conference.

The $1,287.50 was raised through the sale of raffle tickets, a brief, but rip-roaring auction at the dinner-dance, and by selling fun and collectible buttons and stickers. I would like to extend warm thanks to ACA President Paul Banfield for his inspired auctioneering and to Rebecka Sheffield, Rod Carter and Loryl MacDonald for producing and selling the buttons and stickers. Thanks also to the many conference attendees who bought the raffle tickets, etc. and helped us to raise the money.

Also at the conference, the ACA Foundation announced the creation of the ACA Scholarship Endowment Fund, whose purpose is to produce a long-term income stream for the provision of scholarships to archival studies students, and thus support the Canadian archival profession. If you would like to learn more about donating to the Foundation, please see our page on the ACA website, http://www.archivists.ca/content/aca-foundation, or feel free to contact me, and I will be delighted to discuss it with you.

Michele Dale, ACAF Chair