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Post by fiddlesticks on May 12, 2015 19:55:06 GMT
My DH's aunt passed on Mother's Day after a short battle with cancer. She was a pretty incredible person. She wanted no kind of service but DH and I want to donate some money in her honor to an organization that supports cancer research. There are so many out there and I know that some have a very large overhead.
It's hard to know what to choose and we haven't done this sort of thing before. Does anyone have any first hand knowledge of a place that would be great to donate to?
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MerryMom
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Post by MerryMom on May 12, 2015 19:59:56 GMT
I am sorry about your aunt.
Usually a regional teaching hospital has some type of cancer research or a Children's Hospital.
In central Ohio, there is the Stephanie Spielman Fund for Cancer Research.
I'm not a big fan of the Susan Komen fund.
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Post by papersilly on May 12, 2015 20:03:43 GMT
do you want to donate to a cancer specific organization? there are many breast cancer orgs. we gave to the lymphoma and leukemia society when my friend got lymphoma. there is also the American Cancer Society as general one.
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Post by fiddlesticks on May 12, 2015 20:10:05 GMT
do you want to donate to a cancer specific organization? there are many breast cancer orgs. we gave to the lymphoma and leukemia society when my friend got lymphoma. there is also the American Cancer Society as general one. I don't really know. By the time she was diagnosed, it was already stage 4 and had spread quite a bit. Now that I think about, I don't know if we ever heard the origin. So I guess a general one. |
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Post by originalvanillabean on May 12, 2015 20:12:23 GMT
I don't have any suggestions, but want to say sorry for your loss.
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Post by papersilly on May 12, 2015 20:20:16 GMT
do you want to donate to a cancer specific organization? there are many breast cancer orgs. we gave to the lymphoma and leukemia society when my friend got lymphoma. there is also the American Cancer Society as general one. I don't really know. By the time she was diagnosed, it was already stage 4 and had spread quite a bit. Now that I think about, I don't know if we ever heard the origin. So I guess a general one. well, whoever you donate to, be prepared to get spammed to death with future solicitations for donations. no matter how much you give, I guarantee you then will spend that and more to get more donations from you. that is what makes me the saddest about donating to organizations like that. their subsequent mailings are just constant and seemingly wasteful. I was listening to the radio and they were saying that major charities spend a large percentage of donations on soliciting more donations. the percentage that actually goes to research or to patients is not as large as we want to believe it is. we have donated to everyone from habitat for humanity, doctors without borders, cancer organizations, animal rescue and cruelty organizations and we could earn extra income just recycling the paper waste that comes from all the mailers we get from these companies after our donations are made. |
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tincin
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Post by tincin on May 12, 2015 20:22:29 GMT
There are sites online you can look at and find out how much of each dollar any specific charity actual uses for the cause and how much goes to fund raising and overhead costs. I would suggest you do this before you donate to any cancer charity because some are much better than others. Charity Navigator |
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Post by christine58 on May 12, 2015 20:28:09 GMT
I am sorry about your aunt. Usually a regional teaching hospital has some type of cancer research or a Children's Hospital. In central Ohio, there is the Stephanie Spielman Fund for Cancer Research. I'm not a big fan of the Susan Komen fund. Chris Spielman played for the Buffalo Bills for a couple years..I did not know there was a fund in her name...thanks for posting this! |
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Post by greenlegume on May 12, 2015 20:55:35 GMT
MD Anderson and Texas Children's do amazing things for cancer research and patients. I have firsthand experience with them.
I hear good things about St. Jude's.
Not a fan of Komen, through personal experience and personal research, so I can't recommend them.
I would recommend a google search on finding out the percentages of their funding that charities actually donate to research. There were some threads about this in the past on 2peas, and that's when I discovered how little Komen gives to research. I'm sorry I don't have more specifics for you, though.
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gsquaredmom
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Post by gsquaredmom on May 12, 2015 20:58:06 GMT
I ONLY donate to American Cancer Society. I looked at several organizations and they were the best on terms of funneling money to good research, supporting individuals who called, etc. i have very limited money for charity and they are the only ones I give to.
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