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If you’re looking for a military-related charity for your Combined Federal Campaign donation this year, there are some new causes on the block that may not be easy to find.
“A lot of folks don’t know who we are,” said Barbara Lau, executive director of Comfort for America’s Uniformed Services (CAUSE).
The group is new to the CFC national charities list this year, but missed the deadline for being included in the federation of Military, Veterans and Patriotic Service Organizations of America, Lau said. She and her husband, and three of his West Point classmates and their wives, began the effort in April 2003 to provide personal care items and clothing to wounded troops, and have expanded to recreation and entertainment.
Many local CFC campaigns have search devices on their Web sites that allow donors to search for charities using key words, programs, affiliations, or other parameters. If your local campaign doesn’t have a search device, you can search for national and international charities online. About 350 new charities are on the national/international CFC list, including CAUSE.
That group’s newest program involves $2,500 specialized game carts — hospital carts configured with a television and game station, with a telescoping arm that can wind its way around IV lines and other wires around hospital beds, Lau said.
CAUSE has put three at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington and eight in the Veterans Affairs hospital in Detroit, Lau said. CAUSE libraries at six medical facilities allow military patients to check out videos, games and gaming systems. A seventh is scheduled to open in January at Fort Riley, Kan. Information is available online about donating, money, recreation items, and volunteer time to each of these libraries and other CAUSE efforts.
CAUSE’s CFC number is 33011. Another new military-related charity is Wounded EOD Warrior Foundation, CFC number 37190, which also is not part of the MVPSOA, although it is part of another CFC federation, Human Care Charities of America. The Wounded EOD Warrior Foundation provides grants to those who have been injured while removing unexploded military ordnance and terrorist devices.
Staff writer Tim Kauffman contributed to this report.
These charities do not represent the official and complete list of CFC participating charities.
