Welcome to the Southeast Michigan Area Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) and thank you for agreeing to serve in a leadership capacity for this year’s CFC in your organization. You were selected for this role because you have demonstrated strong leadership skills and have been a successful manager. You will set the pace of the campaign with your enthusiasm, ability to motivate others, and commitment to meet and exceed your CFC goal.

For over 40 years the CFC has enabled millions of federal employees to improve the quality of people’s lives locally, nationally, and internationally. The organizations that receive funding through the CFC provide many services, including helping abused and neglected children, feeding the hungry, searching for cures to diseases, preserving our natural resources, and giving help and hope to those in need. There are three main reasons for the CFC’s continuing success:

1. It is an easy system. Employees can contribute by payroll deduction, check, or cash. By signing up for payroll deduction, Federal employees can have a reasonable, affordable amount withheld from each paycheck that will, over a year’s time, make a substantial contribution to their favorite charities. *

2. It allows employees to choose which organizations will receive their contributions. Employees designate their gifts to issues that are important to them by choosing from one comprehensive list of participating organizations in the Charity List.

3. Federal employees make it happen. Every year hundreds of federal employees volunteer to coordinate and plan the CFC in their workplaces, bringing their co-workers together to have fun while making a difference in their communities.

The CFC will provide you with a Loaned Ambassador (LA) to assist you in coordinating your campaign. Your LA is a federal government employee who works full-time for the CFC during the campaign. Together with the PCFO staff, your LA can help you in planning, organizing, and conducting your campaign.

We have prepared a Resource Guide to help you develop an efficient organizational structure for a successful campaign in your agency. Together with CFC’s website at www.cfc-southeasternmichigan.org and the official Office of Personnel Management (OPM) CFC website at www.opm.gov/cfc, this guide will help you get organized. The PCFO staff and your LA will also assist you. They are located at:
Southeast Michigan Area Combined Federal Campaign

1212 Griswold
Detroit, MI 48226
(313) 226-9356 (telephone)