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[quote=Anonymous]One of the PPs who doesn't donate through CFC...

I understand that it gets a great deal of money to organizations by making it easy for feds to donate (fill out a form, and it's all taken care of).  And that many organizations have come to depend on CFC contributions.

The problems, as I see it, are that there's an administrative overhead that's way too high (it shouldn't be more than a couple of percent, max), there's a bizarre (and overt) pressure to donate (despite rules meant to prevent this), and significant agency resources (money and manpower) are used to promote CFC, host CFC events, etc.

At a time when my office is pinching pennies so we can buy toner for our printers, I'm offended that money is being spent on a "kickoff" reception for CFC, and other CFC activities.  And that the admin person for our section can't take care of things because she's too busy doing CFC stuff.  Or that 100% participation is expected and those of us who don't contribute are made to feel bad that we don't.

The whole enterprise just really rubs me the wrong way.[/quote]

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