The American Czech and Slovak Association, ACSA, was a Washington, DC-based, leading, national, Czech and Slovak Republic-focused non-profit organization registered in 1990 in Delaware with a mission to "facilitate bilateral U.S. - Czech and Slovak cooperation in various areas of human endeavor and to assist the new democracy and free market reform." Unlike other organizations, it was not primarily a diaspora and ethnic-based organization but it brought together individual Americans and American private and public sectors organizations sharing interest in bilateral cooperation and supporting the post-Velvet Revolution era development in the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic. The organization was founded on February 2, 1990, in Washington, DC at a founding meeting of about 75 members of the public held at the Georgetown Public Library.
A resolution adopted at the founding meeting directed elected officers to establish the following Committees as the primary instruments for implementation of the organization's Mission: Cultural Affairs, Business and Trade, Governmental Affairs, Teachers of English, Environment and Health, Education, Public Relations, and ACSA Merit Awards.
On annual basis, the ACSA provided financial and in-kind assistance to democracy, free market reform, charitable and humanitarian efforts in the Czech and Slovak Republic of up to $2 million a year.
One of the co-founders and subsequent Vice President and Chairman of the ACSA Government Relations Committee was Oliver Gunovsky.
Between 1992 and 1997, i.e. until its conversion into the AFoCR, American Friends of the Czech Republic, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization, ACSA and its president were institutional and individual members of the Washington, DC - based American Society of Association Executives (ASAE).