[Advogado]

A few weeks ago, I posted a warning about this so-called charity (not to be confused with Relay for Life). The National Breast Cancer Research Center is at it again, with a new mailing to Villagers-- claiming to be conducting a "Villages Area Annual Fund Drive" and including in their mailing a pretty pink-ribbon decal. By the way, this seems to be their second "annual" fund drive in the last few weeks.

In fact, the so-called National Breast Cancer Research Center only spends 4.2% of the donations it collects on "research programs services". 51.7% goes to fundraising. 43% goes to "public education", which I suspect is primarily disguised fundraising. The rest (including whatever administrative compensation is buried in the first two categories) goes to "administration". In other words, the whole operation appears to be a giant fundraising scam, conducted primarily for the benefit of the administrators who run it.

The most disgusting aspect of this kind of operation is that it is diverting charitable contributions from legitimate organizations that really are fighting cancer.