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abstract
Highlights
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- The largest cancer advocacy groups raised over $1,000,000,000.00 in 2013
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- Enhanced revenue was proportional to increased overhead and investments in fund-raising activities
Abstract
Non-profit
advocacy organizations have been important in raising public awareness,
promoting education, and enhancing political activism for issues
related to cancer. Grassroots efforts aimed at fund-raising have
substantially augmented federal funding for community outreach and
research. The objective of this review was to evaluate successful
accomplishments of several major non-profit organizations that are
focused on cancer. A review of news media, medical literature, and
financial records (using GuideStar) was performed to access the
organizational structure and productivity of several successful cancer
advocacy organizations. Compared to other cancer advocacy groups, the
American Cancer Society is the oldest (> 100 years old) and worth the
most with net assets of over $1.25 billion dollars and an annual total
revenue of over $900 million dollars. The ACS also has the highest
overhead at 41%. Most of the gynecologic cancer advocacy groups are
approximately 20 years old and have collective total annual revenue of
over $17M dollars. The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund has been the most
successful at raising funds and building net assets to date while
maintaining an overhead of < 10%. The most active and financially
successful cancer organizations tend to be older, have higher overhead,
spend less on total administration, spend more on fund-raising, have
more events (rather than a limited number), and use aggressive social
media strategies.
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