2007 CFC Headlines
Thanks to everyone who attended our CFC Celebration Luncheons to celebrate our campaign success, thank our invaluable volunteers, and recognize our 2007 award recipients. Brigadier General Charles L. Yriarte was our featured speaker at the lunches, held in Salem and Portland. Honorees included CFC Specialists, Leadership Team members, PCFO staff, and award recipients. The lunches were generously sponsored by Kaiser Permanente.
Picures from the Portland and Salem Celebration Luncheons are posted! Follow this link to see the online album. (Portland photos are first; Salem photos follow).
Congratulations to all the agencies who received awards in our new CFC award program! Merit and Leadership awards (described below) were presented by Specialists during the campaign. Merit and Leadership Award recipients are posted on this list.
Merit: Agencies who contributed to our campaign total.
Leadership: Agencies with increased funds raised or increased percent participation from 2006.
Our highest campaign honors were the Chair's and Innovation awards, described below. Each and every recipient agency demonstrated a truly exemplary dedication to the CFC, reflected in their organization, innovation, and campaign success. We were pleased to recognize the recipient agency's campaign coordinators, keyworkers, and agency leaders at the Celebration Luncheons. The recpients are listed below.
Chair's: Recognizes agencies that run a best-practices campaign, including soliciting agency leadership support, training coordinators and keyworkers, publicizing the campaign, and thanking donors.
Innovation: Recognizes agencies that used unique CFC activites or events, or approached problems in a creative way.
Above Left: Brigadier General Charles Yriarte and Leadership Team Chair Jerry Lorang. Above Right: Northwest Indian Veterans Association Color Guard.
Click the links below to see pictures of the award recipients at the Celebration Luncheons.
Campaign Coordinators, agency leaders, and other CFC volunteers are cordially invited to the annual CFC Celebration Luncheons in Salem and Portland. At these ceremonies we celebrate the close of the campaign, hear about the impact of our CFC region's contributions, and meet other CFC volunteers. This event is also a chance for the CFC leadership to say a big "thank you!" to coordinators, keyworkers, and agency leaders for their work on the campaign.
This
year we are excited to welcome Brigadier General Charles, L. Yriarte as
our keynote speaker for both luncheons. Brigadier General Yriarte
was born in Burns, OR, and since joning the Oregon Army National Guard
in 1971 he has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal, Meritorious
Service Medal (2nd Award), Army Commendation Medal (4th Award), the
Army Achievement Medal (4th Award), the Army Reserve Components
Achievement Medal (7th Award), the National Defense Service Ribbon (3rd
Award), the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, the Iraq Campaign
Medal, the Army Service Ribbon, the Armed Forces Reserve Medal with M
Device, the Overseas Combat Service Bar (2nd Award) and the Army
Reserve Components Over Seas deployment Ribbon (5th Award) and the
Combat Action Badge, Overseas Ribbon. Brigadier General Yriarte's
education includes degrees from the Idaho Military Academy, Eastern Oregon State College, and the U.S. Army War College.
Before Colonel Yriarte's selection as the 82 Brigade (TC) Commander, Colonel Yriarte served as the Director of Personnel at the Joint Force Headquarters in Salem, Ore from June 2004 until February 2006. In February 2003 Colonel Yriarte was mobilized for Operation Iraqi Freedom, serving first as the G3 of V Corps Kuwait from May 2003 until June 2003, and then as the Base Commander of LSA Anaconda, Balad, Iraq from June 2003 until April 2004.
If you would like to attend, please RSVP to Leslie Morrison at (503) 226-9557 or lesliem@unitedway-pdx.org as soon as possible.
First-time Coordinator Cynthia Pelfrey set the bar high when she took on CFC responsibilities for this campaign. Her strategy included the Port Director's endorsement, coverage in their agency newletter, a silent auction for Portland Trailblazers tickets, a Kickoff with a charity speaker, and CFC posters around the building advertising the campaign.
The most popular event was the Halloween Costume Contest, where non-uniform personnel dressed up and other employees voted with raffle tickets on the scariest and most imaginative costumes. You can see that folks went all out to win this one!
Thanks to Cynthia and the generosity of her office, their campaign totals have doubled and their number of donors has tripled!
Left: DHS employees pose after the Halloween Costume Contest.
Right: The campaign theme for this office.
Agency leadership, coordinators, and employees at Salem BLM have put in a fantastic campaign effort, and they are now seeing the results. Their campaign has so far increased donations by almost 50% from last year's totals!
Campaign Coordinator Randy Gould organized a six-person CFC team that their CFC Specialist described as "energetic, resourceful, and highly competitive." They planned a series of events that ensured that BLM employees knew the campaign was taking place, heard from participating charities, and had fun!
District Manager Aaron Horton kicked off the campaign with a letter to employees and a presentation with charity representatives. Fundraisers included a burrito feast, an ice cream parlor, a prize drawing, and a media sale. Campaign progress was tracked by a large CFC Goal Thermometer.
Good luck to this agency as they close their campaign!
Right: Coordinator Randy Gould and Keyworkers Traci Meredith and Cindy Enstrom with their report envelope.
As
you can see in the picture at right, the employees at the Social
Security Administration, Teleservice Center raised much more than money
during this year's campaign. Led by coordinator Gloria Halliday,
this office raised awareness about the issue of homelessness among
youth by collecting and donating items that could be used by someone
experiencing homelessness. The items were donated to CFC member
charity Janus Youth Programs.
Congratulations to this office for their creative campaign to raise awareness and donations for a particular cause!
Left: SSA, Teleservice Center employees display a full table of in-kind donations.
If
you've ever been nostalgic for some of the childhood games you played
growing up, then this office's latest CFC event would have been right
up your alley. For only $5 per day employees in this Forest
Service office could test their memories and try their skills at a
variety of competitions that ran Monday through Friday.
The events were Darts, Casting into a Bucket, Bean Bag Toss and Airplane contest. At the end of each day there were four winners, one for the highest score of darts, one for casting with a fishing rod into a bucket, one for total number of hole-in-one bean bags, and the last for the furthest paper airplane thrown. With only a handful of people playing each day this office raised $150! Not only that, but employees are now ready to show off their skills at the next school fair or carnival they attend.
Next up for this office: a Waffle Breakfast and Oral Auction for some great Theme Baskets (pictured). Thanks again to coordinators Melissa Hayes and Pattiann Monzie for all their efforts on the campaign.
Left: Cathy Flick wins at the dartboard.
Right: A "Tool Time"-themed basket, ready for the Oral Auction.
BPA
employees in Vancouver were treated to some Halloween fun as part of
their campaign this year. Sugary treats were sold as part of a
bake sale, there was a pumpkin-carving contest, and a costume contest
wrapped up the festivities.
For the pumpkin-carving contest participants carved fake pumpkins (no mess!) and employees "voted" by contributing to the jar on the table of the pumpkin they liked most. The carvers also got to keep their pumpkins.
Other campaign events include an online auction, teddy bear drive, hoop shoot challenge, cosmic golf, silent gift basket auction, and letters from Santa Clause.
Thanks to Kelly Torres and her CFC team for their efforts at BPA!
Left and Right: Enjoying the Halloween Bake Sale and Costume Competition.
If
you work at the VA Medical Center or OHSU, chances are that you pass
through one of the two skybridges during your day. The VA Medical
Center CFC team is taking advantage of the traffic in these skybridges
to raise money for the CFC. A CFC Troll stands guard and
asks passers-by for a toll, which goes to the CFC. It was fitting
that this fundraiser began on Halloween!
Other CFC events are C4 (Creative Cooking Competition for Charity), a charity fair, various drawings (if you've been to the VA, you understand how important the parking space drawing is!), grab bags, a donut cart, and ice cream and popcord at CFC tables in the Atrium. One popular fundraiser is the jail, where employees can purchase warrants for supervisors, who then have to raise a certain amount of money from passers-by to be released from the jail.
Special thanks to CFC Coordinator Chris Galster and his CFC team for their efforts on this campaign!
Left: Coordinator Chris Galster and the CFC Toll Troll. Wouldn't you pay a toll to this troll?
Right: The CFC Troll Toll poster.
Federal
Highway, West Lands Division kicked off their campaign with a schedule
of events that includes some old favorite as well as something
new. Employees had the opportunity to contribute to the CFC through a
Silent Auction, Guess the Baby Picture, Coin Jar Competition, Dart
Throw, Bake Sale, and visits from member charities.
But one activity showed a whole new side of their fellow employees: the Match The Leg Contest. In this event employees showed off their legs while their co-workers guessed who the legs belonged to. Even with just their legs showing these employees showed personality, as you can see in the photo at right.
Charity speakers at this office included Kimberly Mounts, from Willamette Humane Society with Petri the dog and her handler Lynn, as well as Joe Sixta from Human Solutions. Also in on the fun was Division Engineer Clara Connor, who donned a festive CFC baseball cap that lights up.
Left: CFC Co-Coordinators Ron Gagnon and Gladys Gallardo and Keyworkers Ryan Wehner, Romeo Ibarreta, Denise Steele, Dana Curtis, Mike Baron, and Janice Roper.
Right: FHA employees try to match these legs to their colleague's names.
Many of us have been riveted by the news coverage of the terrible Southern California wildfires which destroyed thousands of homes and forced more than half a million people to evacuate their communities. If you would like to contribute to the relief effort with your CFC contribution, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) advises you to visit the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s website at http://www.fema.gov/rebuild/recover/howtohelp.shtm. This website lists find references to voluntary organizations which are providing relief services. Many of these organizations also participate in the CFC and donors may want to consider giving via payroll deduction through the CFC to these organizations as a means for long-term support to assist these organizations in replenishing their reserves. Donors can look up the organizations in their National and Local CFC Charity Lists to determine which organizations are participating in the CFC where the employee’s official duty station is located.
The
employees at this federal office have set a new standard for creative
fundraising for the CFC! This year they held a campaign event
called
"Duct Tape Your Boss to the Wall." How did this activity benefit
CFC? Employees could purchase duct tape by the yard for 50 cents,
then they could also place bets as to how long the boss would stick to
the wall after the stool was removed.
Special thanks to Diane Grantier for her role as Campaign Coordinator, Donna Allard for thinking up this idea and purchasing supplies, and Howard Schaller for being stuck to the wall!
Left: Howard during the taping process.
Right: Without the stool, waiting for the tape to fail.
BPA Hosts Charities
Local charities had the opportunity
to share stories and information about the work they do when they attended Bonneville
Power Administration's Charity Carnivals.
A total of elevent non-profit agencies were able to attend the event, which took place last week.
It is always exciting to hear about the excellent work that charities in our campaign are doing here in Oregon, in the United States, and abroad. Thanks to Kelly Torres for her efforts coordinating this event, and as always thank you to our member charities for the work you do.
Left: BPA employees hear about the work CFC charities are accomplishing.
Right: Enjoying refreshments at the Carnival.
The
creative coordinators at this the Forest Service Columbia Gorge National Scenic Area have planned another year
of fun and unique events for their campaign. The schedule includes a
spaghetti lunch, Helping Hands race, and a silent auction, with more to
come!
During the Helping Hands race music is turned on the intercom at random times during the day, and employees race to put their hands on large numbered handprints posted around the office. If their number is chosen they receive a prize donated by a business in their community. During the silent auction employees can bid on donated items to raise money for the CFC.
Special thanks to Melissa Hayes and Pattiann Monzie for their work as CFC coordinators for this office. They are already reporting fundraising success with these events!
Left: A Forest Service employee checks out the video and DVD selection at the silent auction.
Right: Another employee demonstrates Helping Hands race technique.
Employees
at the Portland BLM, Forest Service, and Army Corps of Engineers
offices got to meet charity speakers of both the two- and four-legged
variety at their Opening Ceremonies on Wednesday. Fifteen CFC
charities were invited to attend, and three of those charities brough
canine representatives.
Coordinator Joe Lapeyre started the ceremony by showing the CFC Video, and then attendees were treated with remarks by Liz Agpaoa, Deputy Regional Forester for the Forest Service, Lynda Stelzer, Deputy State Director for Management Services for the Bureau of Land Management, and Colonel Thomas O'Donnovan, Commander for the Portland District US Army Corps of Engineers. Colonel O'Donnovan brought his own dog, Leo, to join in the festivities and show off some tricks.
Thanks to the tri-agency CFC coordinator team of Joe Lapeyre, Stacia Nunn, Gail Lovell, Jose Linares, Wendy Reeder, and Charles Hill for planning this fun event. Upcoming activities include a walk around the Esplanade and chili feed.
Left: Guide dogs from a CFC member charity show off their manners for BLM, Forest Service, and Army Corps employees.
Right: A federal employee learns about a local charity that provides emergency food.
Coordinator Kathy McBride, EPA Coordinator Frank Davis, Siuslaw Socorro Rodriguez, Director of EPA, Oregon
Corvallis National Forest Operations, displays her agency's report envelope.
Coordinator Kernie Jones, Master Sargent Tim Hagey, Navy ROTC Michelle Schatz, US Geoglogical Survey,
Agricultural Research Service Oregon State University Corvallis
- CFC Celebration Luncheons
- Brigadier General Charles L Yriarte Keynote Speaker at 2007 CFC Celebration Luncheon
- DHS, Custom Border Protection Doubles Donations!
- Salem BLM Posts Nearly 50% Increase in Campaign Totals
- In-Kind Donations Gathered by SSA, Teleservice Center
- Game Time at Forest Service, Columbia Gorge NSA
- Halloween Fun at BPA
- VA Toll Troll Raises Money for CFC
- Federal Highway Administration, Western Lands Division Kicks Off Campaign
- CFC and the California Wildfire Relief Effort
- Fish & Wildlife, Columbia River FPO Holds New Fundraiser
- BPA Hosts Charities
- Forest Service, Columbia Gorge NSA Campaign Off and Running
- Animals Showcased at Tri-Agency Opening Ceremonies
- Meet our Coordinators and Agency Leaders!
CFC Celebration Luncheons
Thanks to everyone who attended our CFC Celebration Luncheons to celebrate our campaign success, thank our invaluable volunteers, and recognize our 2007 award recipients. Brigadier General Charles L. Yriarte was our featured speaker at the lunches, held in Salem and Portland. Honorees included CFC Specialists, Leadership Team members, PCFO staff, and award recipients. The lunches were generously sponsored by Kaiser Permanente.
Picures from the Portland and Salem Celebration Luncheons are posted! Follow this link to see the online album. (Portland photos are first; Salem photos follow). Congratulations to all the agencies who received awards in our new CFC award program! Merit and Leadership awards (described below) were presented by Specialists during the campaign. Merit and Leadership Award recipients are posted on this list.
Merit: Agencies who contributed to our campaign total.
Leadership: Agencies with increased funds raised or increased percent participation from 2006.
Our highest campaign honors were the Chair's and Innovation awards, described below. Each and every recipient agency demonstrated a truly exemplary dedication to the CFC, reflected in their organization, innovation, and campaign success. We were pleased to recognize the recipient agency's campaign coordinators, keyworkers, and agency leaders at the Celebration Luncheons. The recpients are listed below.
Chair's: Recognizes agencies that run a best-practices campaign, including soliciting agency leadership support, training coordinators and keyworkers, publicizing the campaign, and thanking donors.
Innovation: Recognizes agencies that used unique CFC activites or events, or approached problems in a creative way.
Above Left: Brigadier General Charles Yriarte and Leadership Team Chair Jerry Lorang. Above Right: Northwest Indian Veterans Association Color Guard.
Click the links below to see pictures of the award recipients at the Celebration Luncheons.
Forest Service, Columbia River Gorge NSA
Bureau of Land Management, Salem
Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection
Veterans Affairs Regional Office
Fish and Wildlife Regional Office
CHAIR’S SILVER AWARD
Army Recruiting Office Headquarters
Bonneville Power Administration
Federal Highway Administration, Western Federal Lands Highway Division
General Services Administration, Southern Service Center, NW Arctic Region
Sheridan Federal Correctional Institution
INNOVATION GOLD AWARD
Federal Highway Administration, Western Federal Lands Highway Division
Bonneville Power Administration
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Forest Service, Columbia River Gorge NSA
Social Security Administration, Teleservice Center
Veterans Affairs Regional Office
INNOVATION SILVER AWARD
Forest Service, Siuslaw National Forest
Corvallis Forestry Sciences Lab
Social Security Administration, Albany
Brigadier General Charles L Yriarte Keynote Speaker at 2007 CFC Celebration Luncheon
Campaign Coordinators, agency leaders, and other CFC volunteers are cordially invited to the annual CFC Celebration Luncheons in Salem and Portland. At these ceremonies we celebrate the close of the campaign, hear about the impact of our CFC region's contributions, and meet other CFC volunteers. This event is also a chance for the CFC leadership to say a big "thank you!" to coordinators, keyworkers, and agency leaders for their work on the campaign.
This
year we are excited to welcome Brigadier General Charles, L. Yriarte as
our keynote speaker for both luncheons. Brigadier General Yriarte
was born in Burns, OR, and since joning the Oregon Army National Guard
in 1971 he has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal, Meritorious
Service Medal (2nd Award), Army Commendation Medal (4th Award), the
Army Achievement Medal (4th Award), the Army Reserve Components
Achievement Medal (7th Award), the National Defense Service Ribbon (3rd
Award), the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, the Iraq Campaign
Medal, the Army Service Ribbon, the Armed Forces Reserve Medal with M
Device, the Overseas Combat Service Bar (2nd Award) and the Army
Reserve Components Over Seas deployment Ribbon (5th Award) and the
Combat Action Badge, Overseas Ribbon. Brigadier General Yriarte's
education includes degrees from the Idaho Military Academy, Eastern Oregon State College, and the U.S. Army War College. Before Colonel Yriarte's selection as the 82 Brigade (TC) Commander, Colonel Yriarte served as the Director of Personnel at the Joint Force Headquarters in Salem, Ore from June 2004 until February 2006. In February 2003 Colonel Yriarte was mobilized for Operation Iraqi Freedom, serving first as the G3 of V Corps Kuwait from May 2003 until June 2003, and then as the Base Commander of LSA Anaconda, Balad, Iraq from June 2003 until April 2004.
If you would like to attend, please RSVP to Leslie Morrison at (503) 226-9557 or lesliem@unitedway-pdx.org as soon as possible.
DHS, Custom Border Protection Doubles Donations!
First-time Coordinator Cynthia Pelfrey set the bar high when she took on CFC responsibilities for this campaign. Her strategy included the Port Director's endorsement, coverage in their agency newletter, a silent auction for Portland Trailblazers tickets, a Kickoff with a charity speaker, and CFC posters around the building advertising the campaign.
The most popular event was the Halloween Costume Contest, where non-uniform personnel dressed up and other employees voted with raffle tickets on the scariest and most imaginative costumes. You can see that folks went all out to win this one!
Thanks to Cynthia and the generosity of her office, their campaign totals have doubled and their number of donors has tripled!
Left: DHS employees pose after the Halloween Costume Contest.
Right: The campaign theme for this office.
Salem BLM Posts Nearly 50% Increase in Campaign Totals
Agency leadership, coordinators, and employees at Salem BLM have put in a fantastic campaign effort, and they are now seeing the results. Their campaign has so far increased donations by almost 50% from last year's totals!
Campaign Coordinator Randy Gould organized a six-person CFC team that their CFC Specialist described as "energetic, resourceful, and highly competitive." They planned a series of events that ensured that BLM employees knew the campaign was taking place, heard from participating charities, and had fun!
District Manager Aaron Horton kicked off the campaign with a letter to employees and a presentation with charity representatives. Fundraisers included a burrito feast, an ice cream parlor, a prize drawing, and a media sale. Campaign progress was tracked by a large CFC Goal Thermometer.
Good luck to this agency as they close their campaign!
Right: Coordinator Randy Gould and Keyworkers Traci Meredith and Cindy Enstrom with their report envelope.
In-Kind Donations Gathered by SSA, Teleservice Center
As
you can see in the picture at right, the employees at the Social
Security Administration, Teleservice Center raised much more than money
during this year's campaign. Led by coordinator Gloria Halliday,
this office raised awareness about the issue of homelessness among
youth by collecting and donating items that could be used by someone
experiencing homelessness. The items were donated to CFC member
charity Janus Youth Programs.Congratulations to this office for their creative campaign to raise awareness and donations for a particular cause!
Left: SSA, Teleservice Center employees display a full table of in-kind donations.
Game Time at Forest Service, Columbia River Gorge NSA
If
you've ever been nostalgic for some of the childhood games you played
growing up, then this office's latest CFC event would have been right
up your alley. For only $5 per day employees in this Forest
Service office could test their memories and try their skills at a
variety of competitions that ran Monday through Friday. The events were Darts, Casting into a Bucket, Bean Bag Toss and Airplane contest. At the end of each day there were four winners, one for the highest score of darts, one for casting with a fishing rod into a bucket, one for total number of hole-in-one bean bags, and the last for the furthest paper airplane thrown. With only a handful of people playing each day this office raised $150! Not only that, but employees are now ready to show off their skills at the next school fair or carnival they attend.
Next up for this office: a Waffle Breakfast and Oral Auction for some great Theme Baskets (pictured). Thanks again to coordinators Melissa Hayes and Pattiann Monzie for all their efforts on the campaign.
Left: Cathy Flick wins at the dartboard.
Right: A "Tool Time"-themed basket, ready for the Oral Auction.
Halloween Fun at BPA
BPA
employees in Vancouver were treated to some Halloween fun as part of
their campaign this year. Sugary treats were sold as part of a
bake sale, there was a pumpkin-carving contest, and a costume contest
wrapped up the festivities. For the pumpkin-carving contest participants carved fake pumpkins (no mess!) and employees "voted" by contributing to the jar on the table of the pumpkin they liked most. The carvers also got to keep their pumpkins.
Other campaign events include an online auction, teddy bear drive, hoop shoot challenge, cosmic golf, silent gift basket auction, and letters from Santa Clause.
Thanks to Kelly Torres and her CFC team for their efforts at BPA!
Left and Right: Enjoying the Halloween Bake Sale and Costume Competition.
VA Toll Troll Raises Money for CFC
If
you work at the VA Medical Center or OHSU, chances are that you pass
through one of the two skybridges during your day. The VA Medical
Center CFC team is taking advantage of the traffic in these skybridges
to raise money for the CFC. A CFC Troll stands guard and
asks passers-by for a toll, which goes to the CFC. It was fitting
that this fundraiser began on Halloween!Other CFC events are C4 (Creative Cooking Competition for Charity), a charity fair, various drawings (if you've been to the VA, you understand how important the parking space drawing is!), grab bags, a donut cart, and ice cream and popcord at CFC tables in the Atrium. One popular fundraiser is the jail, where employees can purchase warrants for supervisors, who then have to raise a certain amount of money from passers-by to be released from the jail.
Special thanks to CFC Coordinator Chris Galster and his CFC team for their efforts on this campaign!
Left: Coordinator Chris Galster and the CFC Toll Troll. Wouldn't you pay a toll to this troll?
Right: The CFC Troll Toll poster.
Federal Highway Administration, Western Lands Division Kicks Off Campaign
Federal
Highway, West Lands Division kicked off their campaign with a schedule
of events that includes some old favorite as well as something
new. Employees had the opportunity to contribute to the CFC through a
Silent Auction, Guess the Baby Picture, Coin Jar Competition, Dart
Throw, Bake Sale, and visits from member charities. But one activity showed a whole new side of their fellow employees: the Match The Leg Contest. In this event employees showed off their legs while their co-workers guessed who the legs belonged to. Even with just their legs showing these employees showed personality, as you can see in the photo at right.
Charity speakers at this office included Kimberly Mounts, from Willamette Humane Society with Petri the dog and her handler Lynn, as well as Joe Sixta from Human Solutions. Also in on the fun was Division Engineer Clara Connor, who donned a festive CFC baseball cap that lights up.
Left: CFC Co-Coordinators Ron Gagnon and Gladys Gallardo and Keyworkers Ryan Wehner, Romeo Ibarreta, Denise Steele, Dana Curtis, Mike Baron, and Janice Roper.
Right: FHA employees try to match these legs to their colleague's names.
CFC and the California Wildfire Relief Effort
Many of us have been riveted by the news coverage of the terrible Southern California wildfires which destroyed thousands of homes and forced more than half a million people to evacuate their communities. If you would like to contribute to the relief effort with your CFC contribution, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) advises you to visit the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s website at http://www.fema.gov/rebuild/recover/howtohelp.shtm. This website lists find references to voluntary organizations which are providing relief services. Many of these organizations also participate in the CFC and donors may want to consider giving via payroll deduction through the CFC to these organizations as a means for long-term support to assist these organizations in replenishing their reserves. Donors can look up the organizations in their National and Local CFC Charity Lists to determine which organizations are participating in the CFC where the employee’s official duty station is located.
Fish & Wildlife, Columbia River FPO Holds New Fundraiser
The
employees at this federal office have set a new standard for creative
fundraising for the CFC! This year they held a campaign event
called
"Duct Tape Your Boss to the Wall." How did this activity benefit
CFC? Employees could purchase duct tape by the yard for 50 cents,
then they could also place bets as to how long the boss would stick to
the wall after the stool was removed. Special thanks to Diane Grantier for her role as Campaign Coordinator, Donna Allard for thinking up this idea and purchasing supplies, and Howard Schaller for being stuck to the wall!
Left: Howard during the taping process.
Right: Without the stool, waiting for the tape to fail.
BPA Hosts Charities
Local charities had the opportunity
to share stories and information about the work they do when they attended Bonneville
Power Administration's Charity Carnivals.
A total of elevent non-profit agencies were able to attend the event, which took place last week. It is always exciting to hear about the excellent work that charities in our campaign are doing here in Oregon, in the United States, and abroad. Thanks to Kelly Torres for her efforts coordinating this event, and as always thank you to our member charities for the work you do.
Left: BPA employees hear about the work CFC charities are accomplishing.
Right: Enjoying refreshments at the Carnival.
Forest Service, Columbia Gorge NSA Campaign Off and Running
The
creative coordinators at this the Forest Service Columbia Gorge National Scenic Area have planned another year
of fun and unique events for their campaign. The schedule includes a
spaghetti lunch, Helping Hands race, and a silent auction, with more to
come! During the Helping Hands race music is turned on the intercom at random times during the day, and employees race to put their hands on large numbered handprints posted around the office. If their number is chosen they receive a prize donated by a business in their community. During the silent auction employees can bid on donated items to raise money for the CFC.
Special thanks to Melissa Hayes and Pattiann Monzie for their work as CFC coordinators for this office. They are already reporting fundraising success with these events!
Left: A Forest Service employee checks out the video and DVD selection at the silent auction.
Right: Another employee demonstrates Helping Hands race technique.
Animals Showcased at Tri-Agency Opening Ceremonies
Employees
at the Portland BLM, Forest Service, and Army Corps of Engineers
offices got to meet charity speakers of both the two- and four-legged
variety at their Opening Ceremonies on Wednesday. Fifteen CFC
charities were invited to attend, and three of those charities brough
canine representatives. Coordinator Joe Lapeyre started the ceremony by showing the CFC Video, and then attendees were treated with remarks by Liz Agpaoa, Deputy Regional Forester for the Forest Service, Lynda Stelzer, Deputy State Director for Management Services for the Bureau of Land Management, and Colonel Thomas O'Donnovan, Commander for the Portland District US Army Corps of Engineers. Colonel O'Donnovan brought his own dog, Leo, to join in the festivities and show off some tricks.
Thanks to the tri-agency CFC coordinator team of Joe Lapeyre, Stacia Nunn, Gail Lovell, Jose Linares, Wendy Reeder, and Charles Hill for planning this fun event. Upcoming activities include a walk around the Esplanade and chili feed.
Left: Guide dogs from a CFC member charity show off their manners for BLM, Forest Service, and Army Corps employees.
Right: A federal employee learns about a local charity that provides emergency food.
Meet our Coordinators and Agency Leaders
Coordinator Kathy McBride, EPA Coordinator Frank Davis, Siuslaw Socorro Rodriguez, Director of EPA, Oregon
Corvallis National Forest Operations, displays her agency's report envelope.
Coordinator Kernie Jones, Master Sargent Tim Hagey, Navy ROTC Michelle Schatz, US Geoglogical Survey,
Agricultural Research Service Oregon State University Corvallis
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