Join us and federal employees at the 5th Annual Public Service Charity Walk/Run on May 7, 2017! Register today.

Now in its fifth year, the Public Service Charity Walk/Run celebrates and supports federal public servants across the country, giving public employees a visible reminder they are valued, and offering friends, family, and the broader community the opportunity to come together to thank them.

To learn more and to register for the race, please visit www.feea.org/5k.

Over our thirty year history we have supported more than 50,000 families with emergency loans, disaster relief grants, scholarships, and childcare subsidies all across the United States and from almost every federal department and agency. All proceeds from the race support civilian federal and postal workers through FEEA: The Federal Employee Education & Assistance Fund, the event’s official charity.

We are pleased to announce we have just received a 4-star rating again this year from the independent rating agency, Charity Navigator!

A letter from their president and CEO, Michael Thatcher, congratulated FEEA and said:

“We are proud to announce that the Federal Employee Education & Assistance Fund has earned our second consecutive 4-star rating. This is our highest possible rating and indicates that your organization adheres to best practices and executes its mission in a financially efficient way. Attaining a 4-star rating verifies that FEEA exceeds industry standards and outperforms most charities in your area of work. Only 25% of the charities we evaluate have received at least 2 consecutive 4-star evaluations, indicating that FEEA outperforms most other charities in America. This exceptional designation from Charity Navigator sets FEEA apart from its peers and demonstrates to the public its trustworthiness.”

FEEA is the only independent, nonprofit 501c3 organization devoted solely to providing emergency financial assistance and scholarships to our dedicated civilian federal and postal public servants and their families. FEEA also has a for-profit subsidiary, FEEA Childcare Services, which administers childcare subsidy programs on behalf of a number of federal agencies. Since 1986, FEEA has supported more than 50,000 federal families with emergency loans, disaster grants, scholarships, and childcare subsidies.

The 2017 scholarship application from FEEA: the Federal Employee Education and Assistance Fund is still available! You can access the online application and instructions here. The deadline to apply is 3pm EST on Monday March 27, 2017.

Collectively our scholarship program to date totals over $14 million. FEEA champions the pursuit of higher education and each year supports over 200 students with merit-based scholarships. You can view a list of our winners from last year here.

FEEA is the only independent, national, nonprofit organization dedicated to federal civilian public servants. This program, and all FEEA’s programs are made possible by our generous individual and organizational sponsors who donate directly and pledge to CFC #11185 each year.

Outside the D.C. metro area we are recruiting “City Captains” to help raise awareness about virtual participation in the Public Service 5K Charity Run/Walk on Sunday, May 7, 2017. Volunteers can be federal employees, their family members, friends or neighbors. Learn more about the event at www.feea.org/5K.

Volunteer City Captains:

• Advertise via their personal network and local community by hanging flyers and promoting participation via email and social media;
• Suggest local parks or other locations where runners and walkers can meet on race day to sprint, jog, or stroll a roughly 5 kilometer distance; and
• Help connect registered participants who would like to walk or run as a group on race day.

We’ll give you all the tools you need to succeed, including downloadable flyers and lots of ideas for getting the word out.

For more information and to sign up to be a city captain, please visit https://fs28.formsite.com/FEEA/CityCaptain/.

All proceeds from the race support civilian federal and postal workers through FEEA: The Federal Employee Education & Assistance Fund, the event’s official charity.