JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. –
U.S. Air Force Col. John J. Allen Jr., 633rd Air Base Wing commander, kicked off the Combined Federal Campaign season for Joint Base Langley-Eustis by donating to multiple charities Sept. 15.
The 2014 JBLE CFC runs from Sept. 15 to Oct. 31, and Service members and other federal employees should contact their unit's CFC representative to follow in his footsteps to donate to a more than 4,000 approved charities worldwide. This year, JBLE hopes to raise $158,664.
As the world's largest and most successful annual workplace charity campaign, the CFC is expected to raise millions of dollars with pledges from federal civilian, postal and military donors, according to the CFC website.
In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally tasked the U.S. Office of Personnel Management with the responsibility for developing of a uniform policy for fundraising within the federal service. The CFC was officially founded in 1961 when President John F. Kennedy signed an executive order authorizing the U.S. Civil Service Commission to develop guidelines to regulate fundraising for federal employees.