North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 01 - ADMINISTRATION › Chapter 35 - STATE EMPLOYEES COMBINED CAMPAIGN › Subchapter B - STATE EMPLOYEES COMBINED CAMPAIGN › Section .0100 - ORGANIZATION › Section 35B .0101 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
The following definitions shall apply:
(1) "Administrative Expenses" means costs for
				  reporting and informational activities related to business management that are
				  neither educational, direct conduct of program services, nor fund-raising
				  services.
(2) "Audit" or "Audited
				  Financial Statement" shall mean an examination of financial statements of an
				  organization by a Certified Public Accountant ("CPA"), conducted in accordance
				  with generally accepted auditing standards, to determine whether, in the CPA's
				  opinion, the statements conform with generally accepted accounting principles
				  or, if applicable, another comprehensive basis of accounting.
(3) "Campaign Contribution" means the amount
				  of funds received from a contributor.
(4) "Campaign Fiscal Year" shall be January 1
				  through December 31 of each year.
(5) "Campaign Solicitation Organization" or
				  "Solicitation Organization" means the regional contacts for
				  fund-raising.
(6) "Campaign
				  Solicitation Period" means the period between August 1 and December 31 of each
				  year in which solicitations will be conducted.
(7) "Charitable Organizations" means any
				  Independent Organization or Federation approved to solicit contributions in
				  accordance with the rules of this Subchapter.
(8) "Federation" or "Federated Group" means a
				  group of voluntary charitable human health and welfare agencies organized for
				  purposes of supplying common fund-raising, administrative, and management
				  services to its constituent members.
(9) "Fund-raising" or "Solicitation
				  Activities" means the act of soliciting contributions, gifts, and grants;
				  participating in federated campaigns; maintaining donor mailing lists; and
				  preparing and distributing fund-raising manuals, instructions and other
				  materials.
(10) "Fund-raising
				  Consultant" means a consultant as defined in
				  G.S.
				  131F-2(10).
(11) "Fund-raising Expenses" means the total
				  cost incurred from all activities that constitute, or are an integral and
				  inseparable part of, an appeal for financial support.
(12) "Fund-raising Solicitor" means a
				  solicitor as defined in
				  G.S.
				  131F-2(19).
(13) "Independent Organization" or
				  "Independent Charitable Organization" means a singular voluntary charitable
				  agency.
(14) "Member Charitable
				  Organization" means an Independent Organization that is organized under a
				  Federation or Federated Group.
(15)
				  "Program Services Expenses" means costs for those activities that the reporting
				  organization was created to conduct which fulfill the purpose or mission for
				  which the organization exists, exclusive of fund-raising and administrative
				  expenses, and which, along with any activities commenced subsequently, form the
				  basis of the organization's current exemption from tax.
(16) "SECC Advisory Committee" or "Advisory
				  Committee" means an appointed committee that serves as an application point for
				  all Charitable Organizations applying to participate in the SECC.
(17) "State Employee Combined Campaign" or
				  "SECC" shall be the official name of the state employee charitable fund-raising
				  drive.
(18) "Statewide Campaign
				  Organization" means the organization contracted to manage the SECC's
				  administrative operations.
(19)
				  "Undesignated Funds" means solicitated funds received in which the designee is
				  not stated or that has not been approved through the SECC application
				  process.
Authority
					 G.S.
					 143-340(26);
Eff. April 1, 2020.