CFC
Cabinet Meeting
Minutes of June 20, 2007
Host: Rodger Matthews & Sandra
Champion-Jones
Alphapointe Association for the Blind
7501 Prospect,
Cabinet Members in attendance:
Jeff Beaton, USPS
Christina Bennett, NTEU #66
Tina Frymyer, SSA
Charlie Garrett, SSA
Randy Hawkinson, USDA
Cindy Hillman, FEB
Larry Hisle, CFC
Michael Jaromin, DHS-ICE
Nadine Johnson, FDA
Dennis Johnson, Census Bureau
Rodger Matthews, USDA
Matt Mitchell, USDA
Dennis O’Connell, GSA
David Rhoades, USACE
Harry Strader, CFC
Quo Tyler, USPS
Sharon Willis, FAA
Alternates & Others:
Wanda Hooks, USPS for Terry Freeman,
Linda Day, USPS
Welcome & Introduction – Rodger Matthews:
Rodger thanked the cabinet members for being involved
in the campaign this year. Each
member in attendance introduced themselves.
Sandra was unable to attend at the last moment
Labor Cabinet Update – Larry Hisle for Sandra
Champion -Jones:
·
Reported on the Union Partnership Meeting held on April 25th
·
The purpose of the Union Partnership Council is to secure the support of
representatives from more than 20 area federal employee unions.
·
Up-dating of the Union Listing is an on-going process
·
We are doing a much better job of obtaining Labor Co-Coordinators
·
Labor Division Co-Chairs with make peer calls on the Bargaining Units in
their area. Labor Co-Coordinators
were to be encouraged in all Agency Head Calls
·
Upcoming meeting will take place on July 19th.
Agency Head Training & Calls – each Division
Chair:
Each Division was asked to report out on their
progress on contacting the Agency Heads in
their respective Divisions.
·
Completion Percentage
·
Completion Date
·
Problems or trends
Division
0: Larry reported out for the Division
·
Gary Beets, FMS and Roberta Jackson, IRS, are at 63% of calls that have
been completed or scheduled.
·
All large accounts have been contacted.
·
Remaining calls will be done by June 30.
Division
1: Mike Jaromin reported
·
Mike Jaromin (DHS-CIS) and John Ster from GSA have completed 18% of
calls for this division.
·
John Ster (GSA) will be the LE for this division
·
May be difficult to complete all calls by June 30th, but are
working
Division
2: Charlie Garrett reported
·
Charlie Garrett (SSA) and Team Leaders from Social Security & HHS
have completed 100 % of calls for this division.
·
There are four Team Leaders from Social Security and Fred Schuster from
Dept of Health & Human Services have made these calls.
Division
3: Dennis Johnson reported
·
Dennis Johnson (Census Bureau) and Sharon Willis (FAA), have completed
90% of calls for this division
·
Remaining calls will be done by June 30.
Division 4:
Randy Hawkinson reported
· Randy Hawkinson and Maria Tupac (USDA) are
currently at 35% of calls completed & all have been scheduled.
·
Got a late start, but all calls should be done by June 30
Division 5:
Wanda Hooks reported
·
A few calls have been completed.
·
Jeff Beaton & Ed Gorman (USPS), will be making calls on all Post
Masters & Plant Managers.
·
Will be working to get an appointment with the new District Manager
·
Jeff, Ed and Quo Tyler will be LE’s this year.
Division
6: David Rhoades reported
·
Mike Anthony (USMC) and David Rhoades
(USACE) are currently at 57% of calls that are completed.
· Remaining calls
should be done by the June 30 deadline.
·
Capt. Vincent Weber, (USCG) and Harry Strader
(CFC) have currently completed 50% of calls scheduled.
·
The bulk of the larger accounts will be completed by
the June 30 deadline.
·
Division Chairs should follow-up on those agency heads who were invited
to the Leaders breakfast.
·
All completed Agency Head Agenda forms should be sent back to Larry.
·
Goals for each Division and overall CFC goal will be done at the July
CFC Cabinet Meeting.
Goal
Setting –
·
A comparison sheet example was shown listing last year’s projected
amount and the final amount that was collected.
·
Each division will set a projected goal-need to factor in agencies that
are closing, downsizing, having employees retiring or early outs.
·
Division Chairs, LE’s and Team Leaders need to meet prior to July’s
Cabinet Meeting to conduct a progress and goal setting meeting.
·
The combined total of all division goals will be reviewed at the July CFC
Cabinet Meeting and an overall goal recommendation set for CFC.
·
The recommended goal will be reviewed by the Federal Executive Board
(FEB) Members at their July Cabinet Meeting for final approval.
·
CFC will present their goal at the Community Campaign Cabinet Meeting
(United Way Cabinet Meeting) on August 13th.
·
Our goal is to be included in the overall Community Goal.
·
The initial release of the CFC goal may be made at the United Way
Community Kick-off on September 6th, as part of the overall Community
Goal.
·
The official release of the 2007 CFC Goal will be revealed at the CFC
Campaign Kick-off on September 19th.
Committee
Reports:
●
Awards & Recognition –Nadine Johnson
Orders
have been placed and many items have started to arrive.
The cabinet was reminded of what was approved at the May Cabinet meeting
·
Plastic Coaster as Everyperson Gift
·
Back Scratcher as the
Rally Gift (samples handed out)
·
Mini Stapler
all Coordinators and Canvasser (samples handed out)
·
Umbrella
as a post gift to the Coordinators
·
Pillar Club Pins for 1%
or $390 Donors
·
Commander Coins for 2%
or $650 Donors
·
A new pewter descending
eagle with gold tips for Eagle Donors. They
will replace the base with one which is rosewood
·
The Double Eagle
“Soaring Eagle Club” for those people who donate at least $2,000.
They will receive the eagle and a nice rosewood Pen and Pencil set.
●
Communications – Larry Hisle for Gail Allen
The Communications Committee met
for the third time on May 24th.
Reminded
the cabinet that “Give a Little…Help A Lot” is our theme for this year.
v
Local Film:
Viewed national and discussed
local video
a.
Committee recommendation is to use
the generic parts/graphics and tape our own version.
b.
Quo created a script from the video
and Larry rewrote it for our use.
c.
The scene setting will take place
in the FEB classroom and the students will be the FEB.
(Pending approval from the FEB.) Main
characters will be Sandra Champion-Jones and Rodger Matthews discussing what
they/you can do to support CFC.
d.
Filming location will be at the
EPA, hopefully at the July 18th FEB meeting.
e.
We would like to use the cabinet as
extras that day.
v
Graphic Design:
Purpose
to create graphics to brand and
market the Heartland CFC Theme used in catalog, newsletters, posters and on the
website.
Four different
versions were shown for selection. The
cabinet chose to keep it simple.
v
Flat
a.
The cost is much more than
originally anticipated. We are
looking to use a cheaper route
b.
Reminded Cabinet that we need
people to be a Flat Stanley and provide testimonials.
v
Newsletters:
We had hoped to have a newsletter out in late
May/early June focusing on Day of Caring recruitment, but there was a delay, so
the first newsletter will additional issues each month Aug through Nov during
campaign; and a close out issue in Jan
v
Other Issues:
o
Web Site:
We will be redesigning the current page using 2007 theme and visuals and
keep updated during campaign. The
website will need to be approved by the LFCC in the fall.
§
Share your story on the Web
o
Photography:
Need volunteers to take photographs and videos at CFC events and at local
charities used in newsletters, on the website
o
Special Events/ Federal Employee
Appreciation Nights:
We currently have two specials going on with the Royals & the
Wizards. We are also working with
Ticketdeals Networks to establish a ticket discount system
o
Online Pledging: We
are researching some options with several other CFC’s on an online system.
Requested assistance with IT people to view the online pledge version.
Please contact Gail Allen
with any comments or suggestions.
·
Eligibility Status – Dennis O’Connell
·
We have completed our eligibility process.
·
At the May 22nd
Eligibility Meeting, 2 appeals from applications which were not approved, were
reviewed again. All 2 decisions for
sustained. The order of the
federations and local un-affiliated was randomly drawn and will be listed in the
following order in the 2007 Catalog for Caring.
Earth
Share of
Community
Health Charities of
Local
Independent Organizations
Heart
of
Bi-County
United Way of Cass & Jackson, Inc.
United
Way of Greater
United
Way of
United
Way of
·
There were two agencies which appealed to OPM in
·
In total we will have 398 local agencies in the book
Events – Larry Hisle:
· The Kick-off
Committee met for the third time yesterday Tuesday,
June 19th.
·
The planned date for this event is Wednesday, September 19th once
again
at
the
·
Paige Wymore-Wynn, US Courts is chairing this committee this year.
·
The plan is to invite those
committee members back who participated last
year,
or ask for replacements. We also
will be inviting volunteers from
the
federal agencies to participate this year.
·
New opportunities: Looking
at a new food vendor- BBQ this year
·
More detailed information will be available at the next meeting.
· Golf Tournament
·
CFC Championship Golf Tournament has been scheduled for October 9th
(Columbus
Day).
·
Tim Gosnell form GSA is once again helping us with this.
·
We are hoping to have Blue Springs Country Club.
·
Save-the-date messages will be sent to all campaign coordinators.
·
More detailed information will be available at the next meeting.
· Training
Committee - Recruitment & Workshops – Larry for Matt Mitchell
·Campaign Coordinators’ names need to be
identified by the end of June.
·
Invites to the workshops will be mailed out to campaign coordinators
(CC) by July 2nd
·
CC’s will be given a choice of either August 2nd or August
8th in
·
Draft of the Agenda was reviewed by the committee members. A Federation
Fair will be held prior to the training so that CC’s can visit agencies.
·
August 2nd training
will be held at the Children’s Campus
·
August 8th training will be held at Alphapointe
·
August 15th training will be at “Let’s Help” in
·
Draft of the Agenda was reviewed by the committee members. A Federation
Fair will be held prior to the training so that CC’s can visit agencies.
·
We are still working through the training format
LE
Training
·
CFC LE Training is scheduled for September 11th, 12th
& 13th at various non-profit agencies each day.
·
We are working on a Draft timeline of the LE Training that will be
reviewed by the committee members.
·
The following Speakers are needed for the LE Training – Sales
Training, Communication Skills, and Marketing Skills.
·
Former LE’s will be used as Speakers.
·
If you have a speaker in mind or if you would like to volunteer for this,
please forward that information to Larry at Larry.Hisle@gsa.gov
or call at 816-823-2010.
·
We will continue to offer a Speaker
Workshop for the Local Unaffiliated agencies to attend and learn more about CFC.
This workshop will be held on August 21st at
the Kansas City Plaza Library
·
Larry will attend the other
federation speaker’s trainings and present on CFC.
Other Discussion
·
Catalog is in the process of being
put together.
·
Size will be 10” x13” again
this year, but they will be stapled.
·
Plan to order 25,000 catalogs this
year, compared with 18,000 LY
·
We will enhance the pledge card
slightly with a cover and information inside.
A sample was shown.
·
A decision was made to go back to
using the ½ page pledge cards, as they were actually cheaper.
They would also all be continuous feed forms.
·
Currently have 60 federal agencies and labor groups and a 110
coordinators volunteering for Day of Caring.
·
Day of Caring is Saturday, June 23rd.
July
Cabinet Meeting
·
The cabinet Meeting will be set for July 10, 2007
Sponsorships
for 2007 Campaign
·
Sponsorships are coming along quite well this year.
Commitments:
·
GEHA to sponsor the CFC Victory Awards Breakfast, and they did respond
and agreed. They upped their gift
$500 to $2,500 for this year. This
will allow us to continue to comp the campaign coordinator their breakfast and
have an additional breakfast in
·
A request was sent out to GEICO to sponsor the Cruise Giveaway and
Leadership Breakfast. They responded
favorably with an increase of $1,000 to a grand total of $4,000 for this year.
$2,000 of this will be allotted to the kick-off and $2,000 to the Cruise
Giveaway
·
A request has been made to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Greater Kansas
City to be a sponsor for an event and they have committed $1,000
·
In addition, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas donated $500 to
sponsor the Topeka Agency Head Breakfast
·
Letters were sent out to hotels and restaurants requesting donations for
the upcoming campaign.
Upcoming
events
June
Cabinet Meeting
June 20
Day of Caring
June 23
Agency Head Calls completed
by June 30
July Cabinet
Meeting
July 10
Campaign Coordinator Workshop – (Children’s Campus-KC)
August 2
Campaign Coordinator Workshop – (Alphapointe-KC)
August 8
Campaign Coordinator Workshop – (Let’s Help-Topeka)
August 15