OPM Dinged in CFC Suit

Just when the Office of Personnel Management would like to bask in the glow of a record-setting year in 2006 for the Combined Federal Campaign, along comes a little snag for this year's effort. The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports that a federal court has ruled that OPM must reconsider the application of the Stuttering Foundation of America of to join the charity drive. The agency had said the organization did not qualify for the CFC under a new rule adopted last year requiring that groups in the program must be “public charities” as defined in the tax code. The judge ruled that OPM's regulation violates federal law.