CBC.ca News - Charities paid $762M to private fundraisers

Note: also see blog "BSB4uD", this article focuses on external fundraisers but the focus should be fundraising costs irrespective of source

"If a charity's not going to be transparent with you on how it's spent money in the past, why would you give it a donation?" she asked.

Money paid by charities spending more than 50% of their revenues on external fundraisers, by province, in 2008:

Province	# of charities	Amount raised ($)	Amount paid to fundraisers ($)	Net revenue for charity ($)
B.C.	38	4,976,236	3,436,926	1,539,310
Alta.	27	19,529,677	16,434,884	3,094,793
Sask.	4	537,703	384,954	152,749
Man.	3	561,674	307,378	254,296
Ont.	100	38,223,556	25,024,532	13,199,024
Que.	28	8,477,161	7,113,096	1,364,065
N.B.	5	750,874	588,702	162,172
N.S.	2	406,617	322,806	83,811
N.L.	3	118,969	88,337	30,632
P.E.I.	4	346,448	264,157	82,291