Monthly Archives: October 2013

Thank you for all of your donation and support. ACAS (Asian Community AIDS Services) has raised $19,336 this year through ACAS at the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon 2013!! We are now just a little short from our goal of $20,000! Please help us reach the goal by sponsoring our fabulous runners or one of the teams fundraising for ACAS this year: https://secure.e2rm.com/registrant/LocationHome.aspx?eventid=117277&langpref=en-CA&locationID=117371&referrer=http%3a%2f%2fwww.torontowaterfrontmarathon.com%2fen%2fcharities.htm Alternatively, you can make a direct donation to ACAS right here by making an online donation through the secure fundraising page: http://my.e2rm.com/personalPage.aspx?registrationID=1752911&langPref=en-CA&Referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.torontowaterfrontmarathon.com%2Fen%2Fcharities.htm All donations over $20 will receive a tax receipt. Thanks so much for making us raise the funds needed to support East and Southeast Asians living with HIV/AIDS in Toronto. 

Dear Runners and Supporters, Thanks for all your efforts and donations, the ACAS runners and walkers will be participating at the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon, Half-Marathon and 5k once again. With you help, we have raised $17,593.44 to date, which is 88% of our $20,000 goal. Please consider making a contribution to ACAS or one of our runners to help us reach our fundraising goal this year! Our East and Southeast Asian service users living with HIV/AIDS will greatly benefit from your generous support and allow us to provide them with the much needed services they need. If you would like make a direct donation to ACAS, please click on the following secure, online donation link; Any donations over $20 will receive a tax receipt: https://secure.e2rm.com/registrant/LocationHome.aspx?eventid=117277&langpref=en-CA&locationID=117371&referrer=http%3a%2f%2fwww.torontowaterfrontmarathon.com%2fen%2fcharities.htm If you would like make a contribution to one of the fabulous ACAS teams, or one of the ACAS staff, volunteers or runners/walkers participating in this year’s fundraising drive at the Scotia Run, please click on the following link and you will be directed to the secure, online donation page. 1. Fast and Furious $4172.41 2. ACAS Her-icane $4125.00 3. Team ACAS $3192.00 4. ACAS Board 2013 $1325.00 5. Team Patrick Truong $1616.00 6. The Doggy Team $510.00 If you are running or walking this Sunday, Here is the information you may need for this Sunday's race: If you are having your race kit picked up by your team leader, please plan to go to the venue with the group so we can give you the race kit. To come with the group, please meet us at the Tim Horton's located at 148 Simcoe St (at Richmond) at 6:30 am SHARP to take the shuttle together to Exhibition Place.  As the weather forecast is predicting a high of 11C and low of 5C, please dress accordingly to ensure you are warm for the event.   5K [...]

After working feverishly this summer on incorporating all the feedback that we received from our stakeholders, you may notice that the ACAS website has a new look! Staying true to our strengths as a community-based organization which provides culturally and linguistically appropriate education and services on HIV and LGBTQ issues, our brand new site features multi-lingual support capabilities to ensure we can minimize the access barriers to our target populations. Our new site is designed to provide a space to engage the site visitors where they can learn more about the work of our agency, to become an ACAS member, get to know about our staff, to become a donor or volunteer, to access ACAS materials, or to become a contributor to our online magazine, Qi Magazine (http://www.qimagazine.ca). We hope you like the new features our new site and remember to tell your friends to check out our fresh look! Thanks to all our members and supporters who attended our 19th Annual General Members Meeting on September 20, 2013, we had a wonderful evening sharing the many successes by our various programs that took place this past fiscal year. We would like to thank our special guest speaker Kenny Chong from Pace Pharmacy and the wonderful talk on why it is important to build alliances between service providers and local businesses to address the issue of HIV within the East and Southeast Asian community. Also, a special thank you to our outgoing Board Members Derek Yee and Raj Jagwani, and a special welcome congratulations to our new board members Agnes Tong and Emily Hao. Agnes has worked in the Ontario health care system for many years and now works at the Central West Local Health Integration Network (LHIN), where she manages the health data analytics and evidence-based research portfolios to [...]

Sincere big thanks to all our donors’ generous support and the 21 registered runners/walkers who are participating in the ACAS Scotia Run Fundraising Challenge on October 20, we have raised a total of $12,524.41 to date, which is 63% of our $20,000 fundraising goal. With only less than 20 days from the race date, please kindly consider becoming one of their sponsors and help us reach our fundraising goal! Thanks to our Health Promotion Worker, Kenneth Poon, for creating the latest team, the Doggy Team, to fundraise for ACAS, we have now a total of 6 teams to raise funds for East and Southeast Asians living with HIV/AIDS in Toronto. Since we first started the fundraising challenge, competition has been fierce. Currently, the ACAS Men’s Program Team, Fast and Furious, is in the lead after having trailed behind in the first two months of the fundraising challenge. 1. Fast and Furious $3402.41 2. ACAS Her-icane $3215.00 3. Team ACAS $3192.00 4. ACAS Board 2013 $1230.00 5. Team Patrick Truong $1140.00 6. The Doggy Team $345.00 There are many staff who are running for their respective teams this year, and you can contact them directly or click on their names below to become their sponsor: Top 5 Fundraisers: 1. Christian Hui $1692.00 2. Noulmook Sutdhibhasilp $1645.00 3. Mezart Daulet $1500.00 4. Andrew Miao $970.00 5. Amutha Samgam $925/00 We at ACAS are committed to providing culturally and linguistically appropriate services for East and Southeast Asians living with HIV/AIDS, and your support to our fundraising challenge will ensure that our service users receive the much needed services in the best manner possible. You can help us with the cause by registering as a runner/walker or become one of our sponsors. Here are some of the reasons why our supporters have been sponsoring our runners: “It is such a honour to contribute to your good work and the good work of ACAS. I know you will [...]