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Warren Warren Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Wayne Wayne Wayne Wayne www.sefanys.orgWayne Wayne Wayne Westchester Westchester Westchester Westchester Westchester Westchester Westchester Wyoming Wyoming Wyoming Wyoming Wyoming Wyoming Wyoming Yates Yates Yates Yates Yates Yates Yates TABLE OF CONTENTS STATE EMPLOYEES FEDERATED APPEAL (SEFA) INTRODUCTION . .2 WHAT CAN YOUR DOLLAR DO? . .3 ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF STATEWIDE & LOCAL CHARITIES . .4 FEDERATIONS INDEX . .86 America’s Best Charities . .86 America’s Best Local Charities . .87 America’s Charities . .87 Community Health Charities . .88 Community Works of NYS . .88 EarthShare New York . .89 Global Impact . .89 Neighbor To Nation . .89 CAMPAIGN AREA INDEX . .90 Allegany . .90 Broome/Chenango/Tioga . .90 Capital Region . .90 Central New York . .91 Chautauqua . .92 Chemung . .92 Clinton/Essex/Franklin/Hamilton . .92 Cortland . .92 Delaware/Otsego . .92 Dutchess . .93 Greater Rochester . .93 Herkimer/Madison/Oneida . .94 Jefferson/Lewis . .94 Long Island . .95 New York City . .95 Niagara Frontier . .96 Orange . .97 Rockland . .97 St. Lawrence . .97 Statewide . .97 Steuben/Yates . .98 Sullivan/Ulster . .99 Tompkins/Schuyler . .99 Westchester/Putnam . .99 NEED MORE INFORMATION OR A PLEDGE FORM? GO TO WWW.SEFANYS.ORG ★ 1 Can I Specify Which Charity Will Receive My Contribution? Yes, SEFA is a donor-designated campaign. By using the code of the charity of your choice, you ensure that your donation goes to meet the needs that you feel are most important. Simply designate the charity(s) of your choice where indicated on your pledge form by entering its code and the amount you wish to pledge. Except for documented expenses for the operation of the local region and unfulfilled pledges, all contributions are distributed What is State Employees Federated Appeal (SEFA)? as designated. SEFA is the solicitation of State employees in their workplaces on behalf of approved There is no limit to the amount of contributions a charity may receive through SEFA. There charities, authorized thru State Law and Regulations and supported by labor and is also no limit to the number of participating charities to which you may designate a management. contribution. To give to more charities than can be added to the pledge form, complete additional pledge forms with your name on them, and staple them together. The top pledge Through SEFA, state employees can support charities of their choice through a single form must contain the sum of all pledges. You cannot designate to a charity that is not pledge, easily paid through payroll deduction or by check. listed in the SEFA Charity Book. Adding charities not listed, or write-ins, is prohibited and State employees continue to make SEFA one of the largest and most successful donations to such charities will be treated as undesignated funds. In addition, pledges state workplace philanthropic fundraisers in the United States. Continuing a long-standing made using anything other than the assigned codes cannot be honored and will be treated tradition of selfless giving, in 2017, State employees contributed nearly 5 million dollars for as undesignated funds. Any pledges without a valid SEFA code will be considered local and national charitable causes that help our communities, our neighbors and our world. undesignated. Undesignated funds are distributed proportionally to all charities in your region that received designations. Structure of SEFA SEFA is made up of six regions. In those regions, there are 23 local area campaigns that What Are Federations and Unaffiliated Charities? organize the annual fund raising effort in State workplaces in their respective areas. Each A federation is a charitable organization that provides common fundraising, administrative local campaign has a Local Committee, composed of State employees and representatives and management services to its member charities. Member charities may pay dues or fees of labor unions. They are responsible for the oversight of the local SEFA campaign. Each to that federation as a service charge. Unaffiliated charities are not members of a federation Region appoints two Local Committee members to the Statewide Council which provides and participate in SEFA on their own. guidance and support to the Local Committees. The Office of General Services (OGS) regulates SEFA and provides guidance and oversight. What Happens if the Charity I Select Goes Out of Business Before All Funds Have Been Disbursed? The SEFA Charity Book SEFA will disburse funds to designated charities until it is notified that the charity is unable The Charity Book is a document or web-based display of charities that have met SEFA to accept any further funds due to closure. The remaining designation to the charity will be eligibility requirements. A sample charity listing is shown below with key elements shown disbursed as undesignated funds. in italics. Key elements include: the charities SEFA code, the IRS Business File name is in parentheses after the doing business as name, a 25-word statement of purpose, and its What Is The Payroll Deduction Option? administrative and fundraising expense rate (AFR). Payroll deduction makes it convenient for you to give by spreading your contribution across the entire year. Payments on payroll deduction pledges begin.