5bvnst530 Week 2 Business Ethics Paper

OPNAVINST 1754.5B
N1
31 Mar 2011
OPNAV INSTRUCTION 1754.5B
From:

Chief of Naval Operations

Subj:

FAMILY READINESS GROUPS

Ref:

(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
(g)
(h)

Encl:

(1) Sample By-laws

U.S. Navy Family Readiness Group Handbook 2011
OPNAVINST 5380.1A
SECNAVINST 5211.5E
DoD 5500.7-R, Joint Ethics Regulation, of 1 Aug 1993
OPNAVINST 1750.1F
DoD Instruction 1000.15 of 24 Oct 2008
OPNAVINST 4001.1F
CNO WASHINGTON DC 312222Z Aug 10 (NAVADMIN 295/10)

1. Purpose. To establish policy, assign responsibilities, and prescribe procedures for interactions with family readiness groups (FRGs) and their operations onboard Navy installations.
This instruction is a complete revision and should be reviewed in its
(2) Per reference (d), commanders may officially endorse and approve FRG fundraising events when the fundraising occurs within command spaces and is conducted among their own members or dependents to raise money for the benefit of their own command members or dependents.
(3) In regards to fundraising elsewhere on the base,
FRGs will obtain approval of the ICO to hold fundraisers on base when the location is other than unit command spaces.
(4) FRGs may solicit local businesses or conduct fundraising off the base; commands do not approve or disapprove such activities. However, FRG members will not solicit gifts or donations on behalf of the command or imply that the Navy officially endorses their fundraising activity. Service members and civilian employees may never solicit donations from defense contractors, even if acting in their personal capacity as a private member of the FRG.

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Gifts

(1) An FRG is free to accept solicited and unsolicited gifts offered to the FRG without command approval but compliant with its by-laws. An FRG may never accept a gift on behalf of
d.

ICOs (in addition to paragraph 5c) will:

(1) Review the input of the unit CO, when analyzing whether to provide support to an FRG.
(2) Authorize or provide support for permissible FRG events on the installation, to include access to appropriate installation spaces and use of equipment, consistent with references (d) and (f), and available resources.
(3) Act as the approval authority for all FRG fundraising events on the installation when they are not conducted within affiliated command spaces.
e. Operational unit COs (in addition to paragraph 5c) will provide input to ICOs to assist in analyzing whether to provide support to a unit FRG (e.g., after review of FRG by-laws, unit
CO will inform ICO of favorable support of FRG and request approval for fundraising on the base outside of unit spaces).
6. Disestablishment. When in the best interest of the FRG to disestablish, the FRG may be dissolved by a vote of its members.
7. Records Management. Records created as a result of this instruction, regardless of media and format, shall be managed per Secretary of the Navy Manual 5210.1 of November 2007.