Garage sale raises scholarship funds

The Austin Community College Chapter of Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education (TACHE) hosted the fifth Annual TACHE Garage Sale and Silent Auction, featuring a wide range of generously donated items on April 1 at the Eastview Campus. The Silent Auction ran concurrently.

Attendees rummaged through the donated merchandise as a DJ provided a shopping soundtrack that played throughout the event. Items sold at the event included household items such as kitchen ware and bedding as well as toys, books and gently used clothes.

All proceeds from the sale and auction went towards a scholarship fund for ACC students.

TACHE collected gentely used donations during the month of March in preperation for this event.

TACHE is a non-profit statewide organization of professionals in higher education whose goals include educational advocacy, networking, recruitment and retention, and cultural promotion of Chicanos/Latinos. ACC TACHE members are involved in various activities to support these goals, including fundraising for ACC student scholarships, helping to organize ACC educational programs and supporting increased representation of Chicano/Latino faculty, staff, and administration.

The ACC Foundation and ACC TACHE worked collaboratively this year to award scholarships for the 2010-2011 academic year through the ACC Foundation. For more information on scholarship opportuinities go to www3.austincc.edu/it/scholarship/getstart.php.