Relay for Life Has Fundraising Incentive
Cancer Society reps Les Waldie and Helen Owen join Northland Dodge’s Brent Marshall ( centre) in showing off the car that has become fundraising incentive. – submitted photo
Prince George, B.C.- The 21st annual Relay for Life in Prince George will have an added feature for participants.
For every $500 dollars raised, the participant will have one ticket their name entered into a draw for a 2013 Dodge Dart.
The vehicle has been donated by Northland Dodge as an incentive to raise even more dollars for the fight against cancer. Last year the Prince George Relay for Life raised more than $490 thousand dollars, the second highest amount in the country. The goal is to beat that amount and be crowned the Number One Relay for Life in Canada.
“I believe this is the largest fundraising incentive ever offered for Relay For Life,” said Helen Owen, Team Lead, Relay For Life. “We are extremely grateful to Brent Marshall and Northland Dodge for their generous support.”
People can register for the Relay For Life as individuals or as part of teams. Using the Canadian Cancer Society’s online registration system is the easiest way to sign up and is also the most effective way to raise money. To register, go to www.relaybc.ca and select ‘Prince George’ from the drop-down menu at the top right of the page.
The Relay for Life in Prince George is set to start at 10 am May 11th at Masich Place Stadium and continue for 24 hours until 10am on the 12th.
Comments
Nice but do you know that the Canadian Cancer Society spends more on FUNDRAISING than they do on research? Its a big business now.
Yes, it is a sad, sorry state of affairs when these agencies become so top heavy that they forget that there was a disease to “fight”. Nice gig if you can manage it…
“Nice but do you know that the Canadian Cancer Society spends more on FUNDRAISING than they do on research?”
Source?
“Nice but do you know that the Canadian Cancer Society spends more on FUNDRAISING than they do on research”
They spent $81,476,000 in 2012 on fundraising. In that same period they spent $71,130,000 on cancer control programs, $46,377,000 on cancer control research and $8,574,000 on cancer control advocacy.
So yes, technically they did spend more on fundraising than research specifically BUT they spent far more on TOTAL cancer control programs than fundraising.
I’m certainly not privy to how the Canadian Cancer Society decides to spend their money, but I’d hazard a guess that since there are numerous sources of funding for cancer research in Canada (they aren’t the only one) and likely far fewer sources of funding for direct patient support programs, that it makes complete sense for them to allocate their donations in the manner that they have.
The Canadian Cancer Society does a great deal of work that has a direct and immediate impact for patients and families impacted by cancer and to write that work off with some sort of “conspiracy theory” about all the money being soaked up by overhead is pure nonsense. Besides, how much money would they have received in donations if they didn’t undertake fundraising activities??????
The financial statements are online for anyone who chooses to take the time to look at them.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/07/04/cancer-society-funding.html
…and if an organization spent no money on fundraising – and raised no funds – where would they be? What I see is millions of dollars of research money being raised by million of dollars of fundraising efforts.
Cancer? Still have radiation, chemicals and surgery. We’ve come a long way, folks. Keep up the good work. Fund raising a perpetual business now. Beating out the proverbial perpetual motion machine.
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