Australia: media - Charities push for overhaul of cancer funding 03/02/2012

ASHLEY HALL: "Cancer charities are calling for a massive overhaul of the $300 million fundraising and research sector.

They're becoming concerned about what they say is duplication and waste within the cancer research field.

The head of the Cancer Council of Australia says the attention paid to breast, cervix and ovarian cancer comes at the expense of other high mortality cancers including lung and pancreatic cancer....."

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

Who owns pink ideas or cure slogans? Welcome to the Charity Brawl - Gary Schwitzer's HealthNewsReview Blog

 blogger's note:  patients are not typically aware of  'turf' wars in charities, irrespective of 'color'. Turf wars are typically thought of as issues between governments, professions etc but not usually associated with charities. Thus the importance of not only expert patients but an informed public.

1) article: Gary Schwitzer's HealthNewsReview Blog

2) Wall Street Journal reports on an ugly dispute
 Charity Brawl: Nonprofits Aren't So Generous When a Name's at Stake

Six-figure salaries the norm at top charities - The Globe and Mail

Note: this is timely