CFC News
CFC 2009 Underway
Moore Big on Less Energy
Fed Fitness
"Tis the (FLU) Season
Vet Information Forum in Berkeley
Travis Kick-off A Striking Success!
CFC News - October 21, 2009
CFC 2009 Underway
By Mark Reiss, CFC Chairman
The fall 2009 Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) is off to a rip-roaring start. By the time you read this, our campaign this year will have touched the lives of more than 60,000 civilian and military employees spread throughout Northern California. It is with great honor that I carry out my CFC chair role to advance workplace giving in the federal community.
For 2009, the CFC Bay Area and the CFC Sacramento/Northern California have merged to form CFC Norcal. Our CFC Norcal executive cabinet, together with our CFC campaign manager and our dedicated loaned executives, have coalesced into an effective CFC team. As CFC chair, I'm striving to wring-out more efficiencies in CFC operations, so a greater percentage of hard earned donations go directly to designated charities. One good example is our upgraded websites - www.cfcnorcal.com - where you can perform a charity search and then e-pledge.
With the nation's unemployment rate expected to surpass 10 percent, we in the federal sector should count our good fortune to have a job with a relatively secure employer and consider those less fortunate. Our fellow Americans who are out of work and need help are overwhelming the services of many participating CFC charities. At the same time, these charities are facing a severe drop in donations. Our CFC contributions may be just the thing to close the gap.
Studies have shown that people who give are happier and more likely to be seen as leaders by their peers. So as we open this CFC season, I invite you to do yourself and your community a big favor - give! Get your pledge in by October 26th and you could win a laptop computer or an iPod in our first round of drawings. See the yellow insert in your CFC brochure for more information.
Moore Big on Less Energy
Michelle Moore, the Obama Administration's federal environmental executive tasked with promoting sustainability and environmental stewardship throughout the federal government operations, was in San Francisco October 7 to address a joint Federal Executive Board and Federal Regional Council audience.Moore's focus is on implementation strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by federal agencies. "I'm on a listening tour and I need your ideas and recommendations," she said inside the new San Francisco Federal Building, a facility that maximizes sustainable design principles. "Federal agencies need to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions from direct and indirect activities, prevent pollution, improve water-use efficiency, and carry out a high performance sustainable federal building design much like the one we're in."
Agency heads have 90 days to establish percentage reduction targets for direct emissions from government-owned sources and energy purchases.
Fed Fitness
In conjunction with an Obama Administration initiative to improve employee health through workplace wellness, the San Francisco Federal Executive Board is forming a Health/Wellness Network to review what local federal agencies have in place and how facilities and services, including gyms and clinics, can be shared.
OPM Director John Berry, who recently addressed the FEB in San Francisco, has proclaimed his vision of the federal government as America's model employer in the 21st century. Among his goals is the renewed attention to workplace and work-life issues, including a focus on wellness issues and encouraging positive health behaviors. Berry wants to develop a culture of wellness, including the encouragement of fitness and nutrition at the worksite, and hold agency leadership accountable for setting wellness goals.
"Tis the (FLU) Season
HHS Occupational Health Nurse Rosie Maciel provided a seasonable flu shot October 8 to federal employee Dominie F. Macapinlac in San Francisco. Federal employees are encouraged to get seasonal flue shots and to practice good hygiene habits to reduce he spread of flue viruses. In an average year, the flu is responsible for more that 200,000 hospitalizations and 36,000 deaths in the United States. Getting vaccinated is the best form of protection against the seasonal flu. However, this type of flu shot does not provide protection against the H1N1 influenza. Prevention of the H1N1 flue virus requires a separate vaccine that may be available later this fall.Vet Information Forum in Berkeley
Congresswoman Barbara Lee hosted a Veterans Information Forum October 10 at Berkeley City College to highlight veteran benefits and the new Post-9/11 GI Bill. Federal agencies with information booths at the site included SBA, SSA, DOL and the VA. California has the largest number of military veterans in the nation.Travis Kick-off A Striking Success!
News from Loaned Executive, Capt. Eric WaldoThe CFC at Travis AFB has officially started and today's Kick-Off Event (10/20/09) at the Bowling Center was a great success! 24 teams at four (100 members) participated from the 60th AMW and the 615th CRW to raise over $3,200!
A bowling ball was raffled off and the top three teams received for $10 gift cards to the BX along with a free movie pass.
The top three teams who knocked down the most pins combined with raising money were:
1. 60 SFS
2. 60 CS
3. 60 FSS
The units to raise the most money were:
1. 60 IPTS: $466
2. 60 SFS: $463
3/ 573 GSS: $340
Top Score: Mr. Dan Drumheller: 274
I want to thank you all for a great start to this year's CFC and please keep supporting your POCs and Key Workers!
CFC News - October 21, 2009
Pledge Form Defect Noted
Please note that the top white copy of the pledge for is not a carbon. Please ask donors to detach it before filling out the payroll copy of the pledge form. Donors should write directly on the white payroll copy, which is a carbon for the yellow CFC office copy and the pink donor copy. Those who want to enter the drawing should fill out the top white copy separately from the rest of the pledge form.
White Payroll Copy Goes To Your Payroll Office
Please forward the white "payroll copy" to your payroll office. Only the yellow copy should be placed in the Campaign Envelope that comes to us. We return all white "Payroll Copies" to key workers so that Federal payroll offices receive them in a timely manner.
First Door Prize Drawing is Noon, 10/26/09
Entries for the first door prize drawing are due by noon on Monday, Oct. 26, 2009. You may turn in the top white drawing copies before submitting a campaign envelope. Remember, employees do not have to contribute to the CFC to enter the drawing.
DMEA IS First To Complete Campaign
Dee Martin of Defense Microelectronics was the first coordinator to complete the 2009 CFC 116 of DMEA's 186 employees made donations that totaled more than $44,000, bettering their 2008 contributions by $3,000.00. Congratulations to DMEA employees who have earned a Gold Award for their agency.
Travis Kick-off A Striking Success!
Congratulations to Loaned Executive, Capt. Eric Waldo, and his crew who organized a kick-off event at the Base Bowling Center. The event raised over $3,200 for the CFC. 24 teams made up of more than 100 members from the 60th AMW and the 615th CRW participated.
Commemorative Coins Have Arrived
We have received the first shipment of commemorative coins. Distribution will occurs as campaign envelopes and Incentive Sign-out sheets are turned in to us.
Need Extra Forms?
If you need extra pledge forms or reporting envelopes, look for them online on the "CFC Tools" page. You can also find Speaker Request forms, Incentive Check-out forms and everything else you need to run your campaign.
Questions?
If you have questions or concerns about the campaign, please call us at 916-442-4016 to get answers.