For a number of years, the greatest effort by the government to cut costs has involved reducing the number of local CFC zones. Each year, the government urges PCFOs to merge. Currently, OPM states on their website that there are 184 CFC zones – down from 355 a decade earlier. The immediate question, of course, is whether these mergers actually reduce costs.
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While the CFC slips in both the rate of employee participation and the amount of money raised, the government – perhaps inevitably – is paying a great deal of attention to cutting costs. That drive toward efficiency was reinforced early this year when OPM’s Inspector General issued a critical report of spending by Global Impact, the administrator of the National Capital Area CFC zone.
This blog has been quiet for several months. But during that time, the world of the CFC has been very active. We now want to look carefully at what’s been going on, what may happen in the near future, and what it all may mean to those with a stake in the CFC.
Donors care about an organization’s overhead.
Many have assumed that to be true, but we now know through the analysis of CFC pledge reports that donors do indeed care whether a group is spending a sizeable amount of money on administration and fundraising. Analyzing pledge data from the 2009, 2010, and 2011 CFC cycles, we can now see that donors are most interested in “Medical Research” as a topic. The related topic “Health – General and Rehabilitative” was the second most popular topic in those three years; “Human Services” rounded out the top three.
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