Your CFC Dollars At Work

These figures represent some of the work that CFC charities are doing in our community and around the world.  Take the time to find your cause!

$1 a paycheck…

• Ensures a child is immunized for school.
• Enables a diabetic kidney patient to purchase a 2-3 month supply of syringes.
• Supplies materials for two classrooms of the “Hear for a Lifetime” program, which includes printed material, video and earplugs to educators, audiologists, parents, and other volunteers at no charge.
• Purchases a wig for a young girl with cancer who is going through chemotherapy and radiation treatment.
• Buys a gas card for a person at a domestic violence shelter.
• Buys a one-month IT pass for a person at a domestic violence shelter.
• Buys a bus ticket to Portland, in order to flee domestic abuse.
• Provides enough food for three families facing hunger for 3-5 days.
• Provides financial training to a low-income person working to purchase his first home.

$3 a paycheck…

• Provides training software for students in a Computer Technology Program at a charity which helps young men and women become self-sufficient, contributing members of the workforce and their community.
• Funds part of a student’s summer research fellowship at the University of Minnesota lupus laboratory.
• Buys a dozen library books for an elementary school.
• Provides five children with vision exams.
• Buys all the ingredients for 400 meals on Pasta Day for people experiencing homelessness.
• Provides blankets, sleepers and cuddly toys for babies born to addicted mothers.
• Allows a parent to join a parenting class for 6 weeks.
• Buys one surgery fixture lightbulb at an emergency animal hospital.
• Buys books for a year for a classroom of daycare children whose parents care for veterans.

$5 a paycheck…

• Gives 15 nights of shelter and safety for a victim of domestic violence.
• Provides four community college tests for students, needed for placement in college classes.
• Provides a patient a chest x-ray.
• Helps distribute a Wizdom kit to a newly diagnosed child with diabetes.
• Provides 5 platelet counts for a child with hemophilia.
• Buys all the books, supplies and materials to create reading kits for one grade level. Reading kits enable parents to assist their struggling reader at home.
• Provides two hours of housekeeping services per month to a senior or disabled adult so they can stay in their home longer.
• Provides drug monthly drug testing for one client in a program to help youth experience healing and develop the motivation, responsibility, stable values and skills to make successful choices in life.
• Provides six sports physicals for teens.
• Provides dental care for four children.
• Provides financial assistance to an MS patient in order to purchase necessary aids for daily living, such as dressing and writing aids or adaptive eating utensils.
• Funds the X-ray of five hawks and owls with fractured wings.
• Supports scholarships to four students to attend an annual energy conference.
• Trains 4 recreational kayakers and divers to identify, record, and report incidents of pollution in the Puget Sound.
• Buys five water quality test kits for students to take on field trips to learn about the ecology of Puget Sound.
• Buys 30 native plants for fifth graders restoring their neighborhood forest.
• Buys 25 people facing homelessness a hot nutritious meal, U.S. mail service, phone messaging service and hygiene kit service.
• Supplies environmental education materials for an entire classroom.
• Gives 1 1/2 hours of play therapy to help a child act out his/her fears through play.
• Provides an art therapy session to help a group of teen girls non-verbally express their pain.
• Buys an alcohol and drug assessment for a teenager.
• Buys a month of art supplies for a classroom of severely abused and neglected preschoolers.
• Provides a basic eye exam and a pair of glasses to someone, transforming their lives, allowing them to work again, navigate streets or simply read a favorite book.
• Gives counseling to an older gentleman who cannot seem to overcome the grief he feels at the loss of his wife.
• Provides a one hour therapy session for an abused child.
• Allows 45 children to have an after school program for one week including homework clubs, fieldtrips, mentoring, crafts and games
• Provides one month of educational materials for pregnant women. 

$10 a paycheck…

• Allows a child to attend residential summer camp focused on community service and character-building for one week.
• Provides diabetes risk tests to 500 individuals.
• Buys one manual wheelchair for a person with a neuromuscular disease.
• Provides 12 group counseling session for adolescents with sex offending behaviors.
• Provides a two-hour education session that helps caregivers of persons with Alzheimer’s disease. 
• Gives 5 hours of intensive residential treatment for a troubled teen.
• Buys helpful books for our parents' lending library to bolster the skills of foster and low-income parents who face overwhelming odds in dealing with these children.

$15 a paycheck…

• Provides a child with asthma a scholarship to attend Champ Camp.
• Helps keep a family on its feet so they don’t have to choose between heating, medicine, or food. 
• Feeds 25 homeless youth for a month.
• Teaches a parent in crisis (at risk of abusing or neglecting their child) the necessary skills for healthier interactions.
• Will screen a child and enroll them in the Oregon Health Plan, assuring that they will continue to receive health care.
• Pays for the childcare for up to 12 children for six two hours anti-poverty classes. Anti-poverty classes include parenting, budgeting, resume building, ESL and interviewing skills. 

$20 a paycheck…

• Provides a year of scouting or recreation for six kids.
• Buys 300 pounds of rice, beans, or pasta through a hunger relief charity.
• Provides roundtrip airfare for a patient or kidney donor to travel for an out-of-area kidney transplant.
• Funds four sessions of family therapy for children and parents working through treatment together to create a stable and supportive home environment.
• Pays for one 13-day client stay at a domestic violence shelter (avg. length of stay).
• Provides a year of monthly home visits by a parent educator for a family with a drug-affected infant.
• Gives 12 weeks of group counseling for pre-teen girls healing from sexual abuse.
• Provides an isolated older person with day treatment services in the community that promotes continued independence.
• Coordinates community services to help 25 troubled children build self-esteem, get medical care, or learn specific skills.
• Allows one family to overcome homelessness and find a home through a housing placement program where a family works with a case manager to determine a household budget, locate an affordable apartment, and negotiate with the landlord.
• Provides one week of transitional safe housing for a family escaping domestic violence.

$25 a paycheck…

• Provides one day of chemotherapy to a young adult with leukemia.
• Pays for one day of oxygen therapy.
• Buys a projector that enables the entire class to see the work of fellow students to better understand multiple methods of problem solving.
• Buys a year of Internet services for adults with major mental illnesses at a charity with the goal of offering an improved quality of life and the highest possible level of independence in the community.
• Sends a Diabetes Advocate to Washington for three days.
• Purchases 25 timber puncheons for trail construction.
• Provides two months of staffing and response for a Toll-Free Pollution Hotline and helps answer citizens concerns about illegal dumping in our waterways.
• Buys 2,000 plugs of Lyngby's Sedge for salt marsh restoration--one of the most productive northwest plants that also provides crucial habitat for Chinook salmon.
• Provides laboratory blood panel tests for 15 wildlife patients.
• Provide funding for transportation for 10 youth heading out on a 3 week trail-maintenance and backpacking course, helping at-risk youth get out into National Forest areas for the first time. 
• Provides two hours of emergency childcare for a child at risk of abuse or neglect.

$40 a paycheck…

• Pays for a CT scan for a woman with cancer.
• Funds nearly a month of care delivered by a trained foster parent to a child– treatment designed to keep kids in their communities, rather than in facility-based care.
• Helps one school teach children to manage their asthma by supporting Open Airways for Schools.
• Provides 2 weeks in a safe and nurturing foster home for an abused child.
• Gives a week of intensive drug and alcohol treatment for a troubled teen.
• Funds the transplant of a cornea: restoring a person’s vision and life.
• Provides new furniture for a meeting space at a charity devoted to serving children and their families.
• Gives one week of safe Emergency shelter for a family escaping domestic violence.
• Supports one autistic child for 12 (1.5 hour) sessions of drama therapy to learn social skills that can teach them to better understand the world around them.

$50 a paycheck…

• Provide an environmental educator to 120 students for a week.
• Pays for toys and activities for a classroom of developmentally delayed, abused/neglected children.
• Sponsors six months of regular group therapy for an addicted mother to battle her addictions, address deep-seated issues and work out a plan for her family’s future.

$100 a paycheck…

• Covers the cost of a month’s worth of health examinations for children removed from abusive or unsafe homes.
• Buys up to four weeks of services for four children during a stay at an emergency shelter. Services include safety planning, parenting training, individual support for mothers and their children, educational/therapeutic group sessions.