The Augustan Society, Inc., has established several special funds for purposes that cover multiple years, and which do not as a result fit into an annual budget system. The ''' "Buy-A-Box" Fund ''' is one such.
The purpose of the "Buy-A-Box" Fund is to provide funding for cataloging and storage expenses, originally being the purchae purchase of acid-free storage boxes, but now funding library shelving, bookends, shelf boxes, and such accessories.
The "Buy-A-Box" fundraiser advertises that for each $25 box "purchased" the Society would catalog one box of books and place them in safe storage. While "safe storage" has changed from acid-free boxes to steel library shelving, the principle is the same.