A Lesson for Global Donors from the Susan G. Komen Fallout: Transparency is a Virtue - Up Front Blog - Brookings Institution

Cancer-advocacy group slams barriers to treatment - The Globe and Mail

Note: includes media commentary regarding financial conflicts of interest, doctors' barriers in advocating for patients....

BSB4uD (Be Smart Before You Donate - see blog posting and income comparisons non-profit employees vs professional salaries) - note updated information on Canadian family physician salaries - average

Blogger Author's  Opinion:  based on these averages, most family physicians are underpaid

Family Physician salaries as per CMAJ April 9th 2010: $225,521. Cdn avg CMAJ

Update:  May 18th, 2010
A separate, unpublished CIHI indice which weights all payments — whether fee-for-service, salary or other form of capitation — for all services, against a national median indicates that Newfoundland and Labrador doctors essentially earn 6.78% less than a national median of $224 875 earned by doctors in 2007–08. On that scale, doctors in Alberta (7.22% above the median) were the highest paid in the country, followed by those in British Columbia (5.84% above), New Brunswick (4.6% above), Saskatchewan (4.24% above), Nova Scotia (1.68% above), Ontario (1.68% below) and Manitoba (4.88% below). Only doctors in Prince Edward Island (18.28% below) and Quebec (28.66% below) earned less than those in Newfoundland and Labrador.
http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/182/8/E339?etoc

Be Smart Before You Donate BSB4uD (Cancer) - Comparing Non-Profits before you donate (see chart)

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  BSB4uD               ( Be Smart Before You Donate )

^So……. Always questions concerning donations? 

                       When it comes to donations, how much do you really know? 

Who do you believe, and why ?

How do you decide ?

Do you even care where you donate – if you donate?

Time or money or…..

Speaking of Trust:

Who gains?

What’s the priority?

Who loses?

Who leads?

Little, or nothing....... to gain /to lose?

Top down?  Bottom up?

^{It’s…….U}p to you to ask the right questions.  Be smart, it’s your right to ask -  your right to know.
    

Here’s a start – add your own

walk through this start of information - what you need or should  know & think about  but most likely don’t

Here’s the question:           I donate because.....

Have a look at the charts below to compare  ovarian cancer 
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