Look for HSCA Agency #2844

Combined Federal Campaign Is Underway!

By Marie Hagan

We're off and running, thanks to people just like you. I'm referring to the first of September, which marked the beginning period for most of the Combined Federal Campaigns (CFCs) around the country. The CFC is a tremendous opportunity to help National Right to Life and its 50 state affiliates.

The CFC is a two-month-long workplace campaign for federal employees initiated by the Office of Personnel Management in the early 1980s. During this activity time, CFC chairpersons distribute brochures (a great number of which are on military bases and in post offices around the country), which list hundreds of charities from which employees can select.

CFC headquarters conduct "kick-off" events in which participating organizations may display give-away items and educational literature. The National Right to Life Educational Trust Fund is a perfect example of such an educational nonprofit organization.

National Right to Life Educational Trust Fund has been a participant in the CFC each year since 1982, and has participated in a number of state employee campaigns since about 1992. While federal employees will locate the NRL Educational Trust Fund (#2844) in their CFC brochures under the federation HSCA (Human Service Charities of America), state and private sector employees will look under HSCA's parent federation called Neighbor to Nation.

The Trust Fund enjoys educational enhancement as a result of the generous contributions made by federal and state employees. The NRL Educational Trust Fund in turn shares the proceeds with its state affiliate groups, which are happy to tell the Trust Fund just how they are able to use the funds to educate their communities.

Human Life of Washington's Sandra Stewart reported that "funds we receive from CFC are used to supply our 28 affiliates throughout the state with the brochures, booklets, all educational materials that are used in their local fairs and other educational events."

Peg Kenny, with the Louisiana Right to Life Federation, explained that "we use the CFC funds through our educational foundation to purchase films and print materials for use to the general public, in health fairs and in schools. These funds also help us to purchase and distribute the new white ribbon pin designed by the Louisiana Right to Life Federation that is used throughout the country in observance of the tragic Roe v. Wade decision."

The CFC is the largest, but by no means the only, workplace campaign venue in which the NRL Educational Trust Fund participates. The Trust Fund also currently participates in the following state employee campaigns: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin. (Not every state has a workplace campaign, but the NRL Trust Fund applies to all that do.)

PRIVATE-SECTOR GIVING

Many private sector workplaces have also begun conducting in-house employee campaigns. IBM, to take just one example, has included the National Right to Life Educational Trust Fund in its IBM Employee/Retiree Charitable Contribution Campaign for the past two years (listed with code #0L508) in the District of Columbia.

Other private-sector campaigns will let employees "write-in" their selected charity. To help National Right to Life continue educating America on right to life issues, please look to your workplace campaign giving opportunities.

For further information contact workplace campaigns coordinator Marie Hagan at (202) 626-8812 or via e-mail: mhagan@nrlc.org.

Thank you so much!