The 2010 Combined Federal Campaign of the National Capital Area (CFCNCA), managed by Global Impact, announced today that generous Federal employees pledged $67 million. This is $500,000 more than the amount raised in 2009 and includes $17.8 million raised in pledges through e-Giving, which is $5.7 million more than in 2009.

"My fellow Federal employees have a tremendous spirit of public service. They give to charities because of a personal experience, regardless of their own financial situation," said Linda Washington, Senior Policy Advisor for Community Initiatives at the U.S. Department of Transportation and Chairperson of the Local Federal Coordinating Committee. "They feel connected to a cause, or are often close to the need. For every dollar raised through the campaign, a real life has been touched."

The campaign highlighted dozens of Federal employees whose lives were changed due to a CFCNCA-supported charity. The stories outlined personal connections to the campaign, including:

• A Federal employee facing cancer and receiving counseling and treatment through CFCNCA-funded charities;
  
• A sergeant wounded in Iraq, returning to work for the charity that helped him cope and heal when he came home; and
  
• A woman who lost her children and home due to addiction, finding her way back to health and a stable job in the Federal workforce because a charity offered her a chance at recovery.

"I am deeply grateful for the commitment and generosity of the Federal workforce toward those in need," stated Renée S. Acosta, President & CEO, Global Impact. "They cared, they gave, and they changed millions of lives locally, nationally and around the world."

Since assuming management of the CFCNCA in 2003, Global Impact increased contributions each year. With the 2010 campaign, Global Impact is now directing nearly $20 million more to charities providing life-enriching and life-saving programs to people and communities in need. The CFCNCA was the top-grossing campaign of approximately 211 individual CFCs held nationwide during 2010.

About the Combined Federal Campaign of the National Capital Area
The Combined Federal Campaign of the National Capital Area (CFCNCA), managed by Global Impact, is the only authorized charitable giving drive for employees in the Federal workplace. CFCNCA is the local campaign for Federal employees in the Washington Metropolitan Area and is the largest workplace giving campaign in the world. Established by Executive Order in 1961, it continues to be the most successful fundraising model in the world. Over the years, the CFC has become a powerful way to help people and communities in need locally, nationally and around the world. For more information, visit www.cfcnca.org.

About Global Impact
Global Impact raises funds to meet critical humanitarian needs around the world. Global Impact supports an alliance of 58 U.S.-based international charities through innovative partnerships and workplace giving programs and manages two of the world's largest workplace giving campaigns: the Combined Federal Campaign of the National Capital Area and the Combined Federal Campaign-Overseas. Additionally, Global Impact creates solutions and programs that meet the unique charitable giving needs of organizations and donors. Since 1956, Global Impact has generated more than $1.3 billion to assure help for the world's most vulnerable people. Learn more at www.charity.org.

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