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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……

2009 –
Selected
Charities: Comparisons
Key Items (see notes)
Organization Ovarian OCATS Ovarian Colorec Your
Cancer * Cancer tal Charit
Canada National Cancer y?
Alliance Assoc
(U.S.) Canada
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Selected
Info/Financials:

**Incidence rate # 2,500 21,550 22,000

**Death rate # 1,750 14,600 9,100
**% survival 30 % 32 % 59 %

Survivours on Staff N Y Y Y
Survivor donations (e.g. 1,387,05 N/A
walks) $ 9

Salaries
Charity’s Salaries~/+ Total 1,474,41 N/A 255,626+ 323,299
$ $ 9~ ~
CEO/President Salary $120,000 N/A N/A 80,000
$ – –
$159,999 $119,99
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***Nursing Salaries $40,497-
General Duty Nurse (range) $81,536
*** Head Nurse (range) $56,978-
$91,197
€ Family Physician $170,000
-
270,070
Financials:
$

Total Revenue~ 3,004,43 * 1,663,446 1,707,5

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Income fundraising e.g. 1,387,05

survivour walks etc 9
Other gifts received-tax 510,823
receipt
issued
Other gifts received- tax 864,780
receipt
not issued by charity

Total Expenses~ 3,375,61 1,263,096 1,694,6

9 80

Expenses: *
Salary-CEO/President~ $120,000 $120,00
- 0–
$159,999 $159,99
(1) 9 (0)
Salary-other~ $80,000 - 80,000
(top 10 salaries) $119,999 –
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(3) $119,99
9 (1)
Salaries-total~ 1,474,41 255,626+ 323,29
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Salaries as a % Fundraising 106% N/A
Funds expensed to: 0 0
research
grants/scholarships ~
Other – see notes 891,885 $20,000,000
Legislative/
DOD
Board of Directors~ 20 14 15
Medical Advisory Board N Y Y
Total employees+ 19 9 7
Financial Statements N N/A Y N
available
directly on website

• *New, no data available as of this report date April 2010

• ** Canadian Cancer Statistics/American Cancer Society 2009 Incidence and Mortality

rates

(estimates)

• ~ per Revenue Agencies

• ^ advertisements for job placements 2010 – 1 full-time position, 1 part-time position

• + per website

• *** 2009 Overview of Key Nursing Contract Provisions http://www.cfnu.ca

• € CIHI Physicians in Canada: Average Gross Fee-for-Service Payments, 2005-2006

(Ottawa:

CIHI, 2007)

Notes:

The purpose of this quick outline and comparison chart is an effort to

provide a brief

Financial glimpse/overview for individuals who are wishing to make

donations based

on informed decision making. As noted, the information has been either

taken from
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government-based financial returns (Canada) and/or from website

information.

Differences exist in reporting. Other information:

• Ovarian Cancer Canada: according to website 6 x $150,000 research grants

– note financial information per government return

• Ovarian Cancer Canada and Colorectal Cancer Association of Canada partner

with

Canadian Partnership Against Canada

• CEO Ovarian Cancer Canada: additional responsibilities (2009) as co-chair

leader

of National Survivorship Working Group - Canadian Partnership Against Canada

• The Government of Canada funded the Canadian Partnership Against Canada

in 2006/07 - $250 million/5 year commitment (The Partnership is wholly funded

through a new Funding Agreement dated March 13, 2009, with Health Canada

which calls for $220.7 million of contributions over the four years ended March 31,
2012.)

• Selected category differences exist due to changes in reporting procedures

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