The Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign's low administrative cost (10% of current year campaign funds) is a lower percentage than most charities spend on fundraising and administrative costs themselves. In 2017, The CVC Advisory Council voted to hire a third party vendor to manage CVC donations, volunteers and the VSEAF grant website. A 10% administrative fee was implemented with the 2020 campaign chargeable to participating charities. Participating charities may opt to have their 10% administrative fee reduced from their disbursement from CVC.
CVC policy is that all undesignated funds will go to the Virginia State Employee Assistance Fund (VSEAF).
All monetary donations are 100% tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Yes. You can make a donation to an individual fundraiser on an agency team or you can make a general CVC Undesignated donation.
All donations should be mailed with a printout of the pledge card, transmittal report and fundraiser (if applicable) to:
Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign
PO BOX 63132
CHARLOTTE NC 28263-3132
Please make all checks payable to: Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign.
Any donor who mailed their donation and provided an email address will receive a receipt via email once the donation has been processed.
Yes, anyone who donates online, regardless of the amount, will receive a receipt via email.
A Tax ID number identifies your designated charity as a 501(c)(3) non-profit Organization. CVC is not a charity and doesn’t have a TAX ID number
Employees will be able to donate online via payroll deduction and credit card for the 2023 campaign.
Payroll deduction: If employees would like to donate via payroll deduction, you pledge to give a yearly amount that will be divided and deducted over 24 paychecks starting in January. For example, if you wanted to give $240 to Virginia State Employee Assistance Fund, you would select the charity, and designate $240, and you will see the amount that will be deducted from each paycheck, which in this case would be $10 per paycheck. The last day anyone can give via payroll deduction on December 17, 2024.
Credit card: For credit card donations, employees will supply their credit card information through a third-party vendor, securely. Credit card information is not stored on any government devices or databases. No fees are associated with credit card transactions for donors. The last day anyone can give via credit card is December 31, 2024.
For the 2024 campaign, we were not able to include all agencies and universities in the payroll deduction process due to technological restrictions. We understand that this is a inconvenience and sincerely apologize for that. Please consider giving via credit card, on the website, or directly giving to an approved CVC Charity and reporting it to us at cvcsupport@dhrm.virginia.gov.
We do not encourage wage employees to give via payroll deduction. Payroll deductions are made in consistent amounts each paycheck, which can impact wage employees based on a variable paycheck amount. We encourage wage employees to give a one-time donation via credit card, direct giving, or by volunteering time.
CVC is encouraging donating online over paper pledges during the 2023 campaign. Donors can donate instantly online and not worry if their donation has been made. CVC does understand that there may be instances where a paper pledge card would suffice. So, for agencies that need paper pledges, please download the individual pledge card, and print as many as you need for your donors. Along with the transmittal report, pledge card(s) and payment method, please mail to the CVC Lockbox address (see below) for processing.