Silent Auction
This year ACSD is organizing a Silent Auction to benefit the work of the Mennonite Central Committee and Haiti Relief. The 2010 Silent Auction will be held at the Annual Conference. Institutions and individuals from around the United States will donate items or services to be auctioned, and conference attendees will have the opportunity to bid on them. The highest bidder on each item at the end of the allotted bidding time "wins" the prize. Individuals are welcome to bid on more than one item and may bid as many times on each item as they would like.
In order to do this, we need your help! Please consider donating “new” items or your services to be auctioned, as well as placing bids on items that are on the auction block. We thank you for your support, and wish you the best of luck with your bidding!
Schedule for Silent Auction:
Monday, June 7 10am-4pm |
Tuesday, June 8 Noon-5pm |
Wednesday, June 9 8am-1:30pm |
Wednesday, June 9 2pm-6:30pm |
Collection of Auction Items: Check-In Table Mountainview Residence Hall |
Bidding – Eisenhower Campus Center
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Bidding – Eisenhower Campus Center FINAL BIDS! 1:15pm -1:30pm |
Claim Items in Eisenhower at the Career Center Office, Rm 102 CASH ONLY! |
Donations
Donations may come in all types of forms, sizes, and values. We will accept consultations in areas of expertise, signed sports collectibles, institutional paraphernalia, items indigenous to an institution's location, books, gift cards, etc. From senior administrators to graduate students, there are opportunities for everyone to bid on at many financial levels. The institution or an individual will receive credit for providing the item or service. Receipts will be available at the Conference Registration Desk in Mountain View when you drop off your item on Monday, June 7th . (For those interested, there will also be the Annual Give-Away. These events are separate unique events).
Donors have two options to donate items to the Silent Auction:
- BEFORE MAY 10, 2010. Ship the donated item with the completed SilentAuctionDonationForm, with attached pictures or any vital information, to the following location:
ACSD Conference – Silent Auction
Messiah College, Box 4511
Attention: Therese Heckman
1 College Avenue
Grantham, PA 17027
(OR)
- Bring the Donation Item and completed SilentAuctionDonationForm along to the ACSD Conference. Donated items can be dropped off at the Conference Registration desk at Mountain View Residence Hall Lobby on June 7, 2010 from 10:00am – 4:00pm.
How Many Items Can I Bid On, and How Many Times Can I Bid on Each Item?
You can bid on as many items as you like, as many times as you like. All bids are final at 1:30pm on Wednesday, June 9th.
How Do I Bid On An Item?
During the Silent Auction hours, bid sheets are available on the table at each item.
How Do I Know if I Have the Highest Bid on an Item? When you bid you will be asked to provide a cell phone number. Winning bidders will be called at the conclusion of the auction and can pick up their items on Wednesday, June 9th between 2pm and 6:30pm at the Career Center, Rm 102 in Eisenhower Campus Center.
Questions? For general questions and concerns about the Silent Auction, please contact Cindy Secrest (717) 796-5240 or EMAIL csecrest@messiah.edu with a Subject Line: ACSD Silent Auction.
Conference Schedule
A NOTE ON THE 2010 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE FROM THE ACSD EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
We are very grateful to the Messiah College student life staff for all the work that they are putting into the 2010 annual conference. It will be an amazing week and you won’t want to miss it! One of the exciting changes for this year has to do with the conference schedule itself which you will want to review carefully when making travel arrangements.
The Messiah planning team and ACSD executive committee have decided to “pilot” a schedule that places excursions on Thursday rather than Wednesday allowing for more concentrated professional development (i.e., workshops and plenary sessions) that is less likely to interfere with individual travel schedules. Of course, we strongly encourage people to stay for the Thursday morning worship / commissioning service and excursions which will still be terrific and worth the extra day! This has been an idea that has been suggested many times and we’d like to try it this year to see how it works for those attending the conference. The member survey that we conducted in June 2009 indicated significant support and openness to modifying the schedule in this way and we will assess this change after the conference to see how everyone likes it (or not). Thanks in advance for your willingness to try something new and exciting and we look forward to your feedback (we are not committed to this format for the future if people don’t like it)!
The ACSD annual conference is undoubtedly the “best deal” around for personal and professional enrichment and we look forward to seeing you in Pennsylvania!