SEFA group asking all employees to make a gift
 Visit the campus's SEFA website for details about this year's campaign. |
SEFA is the single combined campaign for employees of New York State, providing funds year-round to support health and human service agencies who aid people of all ages and backgrounds in our region and statewide. They work injunction with the United Way Foundation, aiding those in need.
Kathy Dyckes, the co-chair of the campaign, said the committee has set a goal of $45,000 for this year's SEFA Campaign at SUNY Fredonia. That goal can be meet, she said, with full participation by the SUNY Fredonia faculty and staff. Donations can be made by payroll deductions, cash or check. There is a solicitor in almost every department on campus to take donations. Donations can go directly to an agency or it will be spread among the different agencies that most need it.
SEFA helps people like Sharon Gavitt, Reference Librarian at the New York State Library. "I'm grateful for Community Maternity Services in Albany, a SEFA-supported agency, for their financial and emotional guidance during a time when I was young, single and pregnant. They were a haven of help when I was feeling overwhelmed and alone," she said.
An investment of $1 each pay check for a year will provide:
- One month's discount rate medication for a kidney disease patient; or
- one safety syringe and one pair of latex gloves to ensure proper workplace safety and protection; or
- one potential donor to be typed for the Bone Marrow Registry; or
- one wig for a patient who has lost his/her hair due to chemotherapy.
An investment of $3 each pay check for a year will provide:
- Ongoing therapy to a child from a hospice worker; or
- shipping and importation cost for $800 of medical and supplies into Mexico; or
- three months of counseling sessions for a family dealing with Alzheimer's; or
- school books for two children in the Philippines.
An investment of $5 each pay check for a year will provide:
- 16 hours of Helpline calls for Alzheimer's and cancer caregivers and patients; or
- 10 hours of home care for an aging senior; or
- medicine to treat 30 people with River Blindness.
An investment of $10 each pay check for a year will provide:
- one week of Asthma Camp for an asthmatic child; or
- one month of milk for an orphaned child in Romania or
- 16 hours of research on the causes and cures for leukemia.
Win prizes by giving early; find more at the SUNY Fredonia SEFA website
SUNY Fredonia employees who donate before November 21 are eligible to win prizes in a raffle drawn on December 2. For more information go to https://www.fredonia.edu/about/offices/state-employee-federated-appeal.
