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It was another record-setting year for the Combined Federal Campaign in 2006, the Office of Personnel Management reports, with more than $271 million in pledges. That's up from $268 million the year before. The largest local campaign, in the national capital area, saw pledges of more than $60 million, up $2.4 million over 2005.

Susanne Franza Valdez, executive director of the Greater St. Louis Federal Executive Board until she retired in March 2007, won OPM's CFC Leadership Award. Despite a drop of nearly 10 percent in federal employment in the St. Louis area in recent years, pledges there rose to $3.2 million in 2006, up 14 percent from their 2002 level.