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Could an Overhaul to the Federal Giving Drive Do More Harm Than Good?
Source: www.govexec.com The Office of Personnel Management ignored many complaints lodged by stakeholders in the annual federal employees’ giving drive when it drafted revisions to the campaign’s overhaul, and several lawmakers are not happy about it. The chairmen and ranking members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and its federal workforce subcommittee said…
Read MoreResearcher to Study Bone Fractures in Pediatric and Adolescent Cancer Survivors
Researchers and physicians know that children who undergo cancer treatment are at risk for decreased bone mineral density because many cancer treatments negatively affect bone health. It is particularly important that children and adolescents develop strong bone density because bone strength decreases in adulthood. Despite this knowledge, little is known about the rate at which…
Read MoreUnited Way Plans to Ask Congress to Strike New Rules to Govern Federal Charity Drive
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy United Way Worldwide may ask Congress to overturn new rulesannounced this month to modernize the government’s annual charity drive, saying the changes will hasten the continuing decline in donations from federal workers. The most-recent campaign produced nearly $210-million for the nation’s charities, a sharp drop from the high of $283-million in…
Read More‘Employee Engagement’ Is Great, But Will Charities End Up Losing?
Over the 14 year history of the Charities @ Work Conference, which just took place April 3-4 in New York, we’ve seen the workplace giving discussion move from providing access to more charities and more choice for employees in their company workplace giving campaigns, to the impact of technology on those campaigns, to where employee…
Read MoreMore Than A T-Shirt And Day Out Of The Office: Companies Begin To Match Volunteer Skills With Societal Needs
Source: Forbes Employee engagement used to mean a fairly simple transaction at the office: the annual campaign that often followed the CEO’s lead, and perhaps a volunteer day with bright, branded T-shirts and Up With People style cheerleading. But sometime in the last few years, employee engagement at some leading companies moved beyond half-time at…
Read MoreCharities hit OPM’s federal workplace giving rules, but welcome invitation to discuss them
Source: The Washington Post Leaders of charitable organizations don’t like major parts of the Obama administration’s effort to “revitalize” the annual federal workplace giving campaign, but Office of Personnel Management Director Katherine Archuleta has succeeded in tamping down their outrage. Almost 850,000 federal employees contributed more than $258 million in 2012 to 25,000 organizations through…
Read MoreCharities critical of new federal giving rules
Source: The Washington Post The Obama administration will issue new federal employee charitable giving regulations that it says “will mean that more of a Federal worker’s contribution to the CFC will go directly to the charities they want to help.” Charitable leaders, however, fear the new rules will result in fewer donors and lower contributions…
Read MoreJoin Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids in Celebrating the 18th Annual Youth Advocates of the Year Awards Gala
On May 15, 2014 in Washington, D.C., the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids will celebrate its 18th Annual Youth Advocates of the Year Awards Gala. With over 450 business, philanthropic and government leaders, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids will honor the accomplishments of outstanding young people and tobacco control advocates from across the United States and around the world. At…
Read MoreChildren’s National’s Kid-Friendly Approach to Imaging
Source: Children’s National The staff at Children’s National Imaging in Rockville know getting an MRI can be scary, which is why they use state-of-the-art equipment to ease the process and provide quality care that makes it safer for even the smallest and youngest patients undergoing sedation for imaging. Children respond differently to anesthesia than adults so Children’s…
Read MoreMaking CFC Giving Count
Source: OPM.gov Director’s Blog 70,000 emergency responses to natural disasters. A free mammography program for women in need. 4,000 children adopted. 500 internships for Hispanic students. 2.8 million AIDS/HIV patients helped. Those are just some of the ways that more than 24,000 nonprofit charities will use the millions of dollars raised by the Combined Federal…
Read MoreWhen Does Targeting Monuments Become a Human Rights Abuse?
Source: Amnesty International USA Turkey’s YouTube blackout may not be as chilling as the leaked tape that prompted the ban of the video-sharing website. In the March 2014 recording, top officials in Turkey seemingly discuss staging an attack against a sacred Turkish tomb in Syria for the purpose of justifying military engagement by Ankara. Cultural monuments have been targeted by power-holders…
Read MoreCharities Will Now Have to Pay a Fee to Participate in the Annual Federal Giving Drive
Source: www.govexec.com Federal employees’ annual charity drive will receive a major makeover in 2016, the Office of Personnel Management announced Friday. The overhaul marks the culmination of three years of research into how to reform the Combined Federal Campaign, sparked by a report commissioned on the 50th anniversary of the drive. After soliciting comments from…
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