Office of Re-Entry
Bureau of Community Relations

The Florida State Employees’ Charitable Campaign, known as the “FSEC Campaign” or "FSECC", is the only state-sanctioned charity drive among state employees in the workplace. Each year, state employees generously contribute more than $4 million to their favorite charities through the FSEC Campaign. Until 1993, the campaign was authorized by a Cabinet Resolution. The 1993 Florida Legislature, however, authorized the campaign in Florida law (Section 110.181, Florida Statutes), in order to address concerns that the Cabinet Resolution provided insufficient authority to promulgate legally binding rules relating to the campaign. The FSEC Campaign is housed, for administrative purposes, in the Department of Management Services, is overseen by the FSEC Campaign Steering Committee comprised of nine state employee representatives, and is conducted by state employees with the assistance of 27 United Way area fiscal agents through the state.

The FSEC Campaign was instituted to:

• Provide state employees an opportunity to contribute to the charity or charities of their choice through an easy, payroll deduction process;
  
  
• Minimize the cost of fundraising and reduce the work disruption caused by separate campaigns;
  
  
• Combine separate fundraising drives for voluntary non profit agencies among state employees; and
  
  
• Provide funds to charitable organizations that provide services and benefits for Florida’s citizens, thereby reducing the burdens of government on its taxpayers.
  

Support for the FSECC by the Department of Corrections

The following are the amounts collected during the 2004 FSECC campaign:

$117,759.01 from the Big Bend Campaign
$294,459.12 from institutions outside the Big Bend area
$ 44,843.38 from Community Corrections outside the Big Bend area

for a total of $457,061.51

For further information with regard to the Florida State Employees’ Charitable Campaign (FSECC), please contact Robert Woody, Chief, Bureau of Community Relations at (850) 922-3868 or at e-mail address woody.robert@mail.dc.state.fl.us, or you may contact his assistant Patrick Finan at (850) 410-4567 or at e-mail address finan.patrick@mail.dc.state.fl.us.