Showing posts with label fundraising. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fundraising. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Cancer Society spends more on fundraising than research - Canada - CBC News
Note: consolidated statement
"An Ontario cancer researcher is concerned that the Canadian Cancer Society has proportionally shifted funding away from research and is spending more of its dollars on fundraising and administration costs.
"Most scientists don’t realize that the budget has been going up and up, and donations have been growing, but the budget for research has been shrinking," said Brian Lichty, a researcher at McMaster University who is looking into treating cancer with viruses that kill tumours. "So they are surprised and disappointed when they find out that this is the case, and the trend."
CBC's Marketplace analyzed the Canadian Cancer Society’s financial reports dating back a dozen years. It discovered that each year, as the society raised more dollars, the proportion of money it spent on research dropped dramatically — from 40.3 per cent in 2000 to under 22 per cent in 2011.........."But when Marketplace scrutinized the financial reports, it found that a greater percentage of funds was not being directed toward support, information and advocacy.........cont'd
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
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 |
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