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JPZenger

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14. Many non-profits play games with educational expenses

Reply to slay (Reply #11)

Thu Feb 2, 2012, 04:58 PM

Feb 2012

Many non-profits stick an "educational" brochure in a fundraising letter, and thereby are able to count that cost as educational instead of fundraising.

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Komen had $75.2 million dollars in administrative and direct fundrasing expenses last year... [View all] Earth_First Feb 2012 OP

Excellent find. dixiegrrrrl Feb 2012 #1

Which is why I donate directly to whoever instead of to RC to divvy up. appleannie1 Feb 2012 #13

Not good. elleng Feb 2012 #2

That's why zero dollars from our family goes to Komen Lightning_McQueen Feb 2012 #3

Thank you for this. Ruby the Liberal Feb 2012 #4

They came to do good and did well. mainer Feb 2012 #5

in my math world that's $123 Million, or just slightly more than Colbert's Super Pac. ChairmanAgnostic Feb 2012 #6

Yeah, I wasn't sure how to break it down... Earth_First Feb 2012 #7

They removed that link. appleannie1 Feb 2012 #8

Try it from here: Earth_First Feb 2012 #9

Scrub scrub scrub. Rex Feb 2012 #10

ty appleannie1 Feb 2012 #12

Wow they spend wayyyy too much of their donations on their admins and so called "fundraising" slay Feb 2012 #11

Many non-profits play games with educational expenses JPZenger Feb 2012 #14

Sounds to me like they lost their mission! gopiscrap Feb 2012 #15