Explanation
This year's campaign marks the 23rd anniversary of City of Columbus employees participating in a Combined Charitable Campaign. The Combined Charitable Campaign is a citywide collaborative effort that provides employees the opportunity to make donations to charitable organizations through payroll deduction or one time contributions. The city's annual Combined Charitable Campaign allows qualified multi-charity federations access to our work place for the purpose of soliciting charitable contributions from city employees while minimizing work place disruption and administrative costs. This year's campaign includes over 200 health and human services agencies.
Examples of direct health and human services are programs aimed at one or more of the following:
· health support and services
· research or education in the health fields
· safety and protective services for children and adults
· food and nutrition services
· preparation and delivery of meals
· adult, family and child care
· foster care for children and adults
· programs for school age children with special needs
· home management and maintenance
· transportation services
· information, referral and counseling services
· emergency shelter, care and relief
· adoption assistance
· neighborhood and community agency programs
· services to meet recreational and cultural needs
· social adjustment and rehabilitation services
· the protection, preservation or restoration of the air, water and land
· the preservation of the rights of animals that provide a direct benefit to individuals
During the campaign, presentations to employees reflect all health and human services agencies participating in the campaign. For the purposes of the Combined Charitable Campaign, health and human services are any combination of programs designed to meet the needs of adult, children and youth, the ill and infirm, the mentally and phy...
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