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Seems the Trump team is debating ending one of the longest running charitable contribution campaigns around. WaPo is quoted from The Independent:<\/p>\n
A note, which the Post<\/em> reported was on the Combined Federal Campaign website, says that the Office of Personnel Management issued a \u201cStop Work Order\u201d on August 26, affecting the organization\u2019s upcoming website launch which was set for September.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the Office of Personnel Management told the Post<\/em> that the administration has not made a decision on whether or not they will continue with the charity drive this year.<\/p>\n
However, the administration has taken a harsh stance on the government supporting organizations that do not align with President Donald Trump\u2019s policies \u2013 including by charitable means.<\/p>\n
This past year, administration officials revoked funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development and essentially gutted the federal agency for supporting charitable endeavors that it did not agree with.<\/p>\n
Some of the major charities that federal workers have donated the most to include Planned Parenthood Federation of America, which has had Medicaid funding revoked as part of Trump\u2019s signature legislation; National Public Radio Inc., which Trump has railed against and signed an executive order to revoke funding for; and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, the charitable arm of the organization that has filed countless lawsuits against the administration.<\/p>\n
The Combined Federal Campaign, which falls under the Office of Personnel Management, has raised more than $9 billion for charitable organizations since the early 1960s, including St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital, Doctors Without Borders USA, Feeding America, the Wounded Warrior Project, and more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Not sure this is the right call if true. After all, the charitable organizations get the money from individuals, not the government, and if CFC is shut down, people that want to contribute can still do so directly – and if you look at the folks cited above, there are some in there like St. Jude and WWP who do more good than most nowadays.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t understand or know why the government wouldn\u2019t run the campaign,\u201d Jim Starr, the president and CEO of America\u2019s Charities, which supports charities in the Combined Federal Campaign, told the Post.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo taxpayer dollars are used to fund it, all the costs of the campaign are absorbed by the participating charities, and it\u2019s a great way for government employees to support charitable causes that they care about in their community and across the country,\u201d Starr added.\u00a0\u00a0The Independent<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Maybe it’s in the name of military efficiency – seemed every first sergeant in the Army spent about a month every year on CFC and “trying to get the numbers up”. Maybe that’s it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"