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WHEREAS, Idaho state employees desire to help and improve their local and global communities; and WHEREAS, Idaho state employees believe that this desire is best met by supporting community group action plans to address local priorities, strengthening and supporting families, helping children succeed, promoting self-sufficiency, and building safe neighborhoods; and WHEREAS, Idaho state employees are generous in their public service beyond the workplace with donations of time and money; and WHEREAS, the State of Idaho has an interest in establishing a single state employee charitable campaign which minimizes workplace distraction and administrative costs, as well as ensuring the voluntary nature of employee participation; and WHEREAS, an annual workplace charitable giving campaign can build morale by providing an opportunity for Idaho state employees to contribute positively to their communities as state employees, and WHEREAS, the official Idaho state charitable giving campaign is managed by fellow state employees who have selected “United We Care” as its ongoing theme. NOW, THEREFORE, I, JAMES E. RISCH, Governor of the State of Idaho, do hereby proclaim October 2006, to be STATE EMPLOYEES’ CHARITABLE GIVING CAMPAIGN MONTH
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WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great
Seal of the State of Idaho at the Capitol in Boise on this 7th day of September
in the year of our Lord two-thousand and six and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred thirty-first and of the Statehood of
Idaho the one hundred seventeenth.
