Department of Defense (DoD) employees worldwide can support their favorite charities from Oct. 2, 2017 to Jan. 12, 2018 by participating in the 2017 Combined Federal Campaign (CFC).

CFC is the world's largest and most successful annual workplace charity campaign with 36 CFC Zones located everywhere federal employees work. Last year, military and civilian employees contributed more than $167 million to almost 20,000 local, national and international charities. Members of the military and DoD civilians accounted for more than $67 million of that total. Once again this year, DoD employees worldwide have the opportunity to give to their favorite charitable cause during the CFC giving season from Oct. 2, 2017 to Jan. 12, 2018.
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Our Help is Needed

During the next four years it is expected that 250,000 service members will transition into civilian communities, annually.
One in ten homeless adults is a veteran.
Since 2001, more than two million American military children have had a parent deploy at least once.
Deployed veterans are 41 percent more likely to commit suicide when compared to the general U.S. population.

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CFC Conference - Musicians perform during the Combined Federal Campaign National Capital Area conference. CFC photo

My Cause Is... - A participant reads a board signed with various pledged causes for the annual Combined Federal Campaign. CFC photo

Colors Presentation - Service Members display the colors during the Combined Federal Campaign National Capital Area conference. CFC photo

A group of Marines stand while displaying a CFC banner.

CFC Tournament - Marines assigned to 2nd Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion reclaim the 2017 Combined Federal Campaign Tug-of-War Tournament trophy at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C., Oct. 13, 2017. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Jason Jimenez

Two airmen sit at a table while two others stand in the background.

CFC Kickoff - Air Force Col. David Mineau and Chief Master Sgt. Brent Sheehan stop for a photo with two representatives for the 2017 Alaska Combined Federal Campaign at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, Oct. 27, 2017. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Eric M. Fisher

Four airmen stand while posing for a photo.

CFC Efforts - Air Force Col. Sean Tyler, front, stops for a photo with Chief Master Sgt. Arnold, left, and Combined Federal Campaign representatives after signing CFC forms at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., Nov. 15, 2017. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Alexandra Singer

2017 Combined Federal Campaign-Overseas PSA Contest

Department of Defense Dependent Schools High School Public Service Announcement Contest Winners

FIRST PLACE

SECOND PLACE

THIRD PLACE

FIRST RUNNER-UP

SECOND RUNNER-UP

THIRD RUNNER-UP

Artwork Contest

Grand Prize Winners Info

Children's drawing of a nurse surrounded byu patients in beds at a hospital.

Kindergarten

Olivia Pyfrom

John O. Arnn Elementary School

Children's drawing of a girl in a closet, with clothes hanging on the rack. It asks for clothing donations.

1st Grade

Hyori Reese

John O. Arnn Elementary School

Children's drawing of homes created to house homeless veterans. On the side, two soldiers embrace and give thanks.

2nd Grade

Ulyana Villalobos

Joan K. Mendel Elementary School

Children's drawing of a large pair of feet, saying 'stomp out hunger.'

3rd Grade

Kristin Pham

Stearley Heights Elementary School

Children's drawing of an underwater landscape with sea creatures, calling for keeping the sea clean because it is beautiful.

4th Grade

Sydney Johnson

John O. Arnn Elementary School

Children's drawing of a cancer survivor, making important the act of curing diseases.

5th Grade

Brayla Choate

Joan K. Mendel Elementary School

2017 marked the seventh annual CFC-O/DoDDS Art Contest for elementary school students: Kindergarten through fifth grade. The CFC-Overseas Art Contest encourages eligible elementary school students to create their own artwork illustrating the campaign theme. Participation is entirely voluntary and is encouraged as a ‘homework’ opportunity, thereby involving parents in the activity (which ripples out the campaign message to the community).

All participating students received a certificate of Achievement signed by the CFC-O Director, Amanda Huckins. Six grand prize winners (one from each grade level) were selected by a panel of Department of Defense judges in Washington, DC based on artistic merit, creativity and depiction of the 2017 CFC-O theme: Show Some Love.

The six grand prize winners will be publicly promoted through a press release announcement in the fall and their artwork will be used in CFC-Overseas promotional materials throughout the campaign. The grand prize winners will also receive a framed copy of their picture. Second and third place finishers receive a prize packet of art supplies.