Washington Administrative Code › Title 240 - Governor, Office of the › Chapter 240-10 - State employee combined charitable contributions program › Section 240-10-030 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1) Committee - The
			 Washington state employee combined fund drive committee described in WAC
			 240-10-010.
(2) State employee combined fund drive
			 campaign - An arrangement by which the committee provides one or more other
			 participating organizations with the opportunity to receive funds contributed
			 to them in the annual campaign, based on their compliance with the regulations
			 herein.
(3) Participating
			 organization - A health and welfare agency whose application has been accepted
			 by the committee.
(4) Annual
			 campaign - The once-a-year period of organized solicitation of state employees
			 conducted annually to obtain voluntary contributions from state employees for
			 charitable commitments to be allocated during the ensuing year of
			 contributions.
(5) Year of
			 contributions - The annual calendar year for collection of the voluntary
			 payroll deductions for charitable contributions authorized by state employees
			 pursuant to these regulations. The normal, full annual calendar year shall
			 begin with January and end with the ensuing December.
(6) Health and welfare agency - The terms
			 "voluntary agency," "voluntary health and welfare agency," "voluntary
			 charitable agency," and "voluntary charitable health and welfare agency" mean
			 an organization that is organized and operated for the purpose of rendering, or
			 of materially or financially supporting the rendering of, one or more of the
			 following services for the benefit of human beings:
(a) Delivery of health care to ill or infirm
			 individuals;
(b) Education and
			 training of personnel for the delivery of health care to ill or infirm
			 individuals;
(c) Health research
			 for the benefit of ill or infirm individuals;
(d) Delivery of education, training, and care
			 to physically and mentally handicapped individuals;
(e) Treatment, care, rehabilitation, and
			 counseling of juvenile delinquents, criminals, released convicts, persons who
			 abuse drugs or alcohol, persons who are victims of intra-family violence or
			 abuse, persons who are otherwise in need of social adjustment and
			 rehabilitation, and the families of such persons;
(f) Relief of victims of crime, war,
			 casualty, famine, natural disasters, and other catastrophes and
			 emergencies;
(g) Neighborhood and
			 community-wide social services that directly assist needy, poor, and indigent
			 individuals, including provision of emergency relief and shelter, recreation,
			 transportation, the preparation and delivery of meals, educational
			 opportunities, and job training;
(h) Protection of families that, on account
			 of economic or other need, poverty, indigence, or emergency, are in long-term
			 or short-term need of family, child-care, and maternity services, child and
			 marriage counseling, foster care, and guidance or assistance in the management
			 and maintenance of the home and household;
(i) Relief of needy, poor, and indigent
			 infants and children, and of orphans, including the provision of adoption
			 services;
(j) Relief of needy,
			 poor, and indigent adults and of the elderly;
(k) Delivery of services or assistance that
			 conserve, protect, or restore the environment;
(l) Delivery of services or assistance to
			 threatened or endangered species;
(m) Delivery of services in the performing,
			 visual, literary and media arts.