Last year, more than 54,000 men and women stationed in Europe donated four and a half million dollars to charities in CFC-Overseas. These donors put their money to work in health, social welfare, educational, and environmental programs that provide direct assistance to people around the world. This year, donors can choose from 16 federations and more than 900 charities. The beauty of CFC is that it gives you a choice. There is an important change in the CFC-O involving the monetary return to overseas military installations.
Donors can now make direct contributions to their overseas military family support programs.
In the past years, family support and youth activity programs could receive up to six percent of a community's total CFC contributions. Hopefully this new designation option will help increase support for family support and youth activity programs. Your community's family support and youth activity programs can receive additional funds through CFC contributions. CFC publishes descriptions of all charities, including their percent of administration and fundraising costs, in its campaign brochure. The brochure also details vital information on how to designate gifts and how to contribute.