CHARITY BUREAU REPORTS
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1997:
The Cancer Fund of America, purporting to fund
no animal research, and apparently funding little or no
research of any kind, has again flunked the standards of both
the Council of Better Business Bureaus Philanthropic
Advisory Service and the National Charities Information
Bureau. Both agencies reported that the Cancer Fund failed
to provide sufficient information about itself in financial
statements. The NCIB added that the Cancer Fund does not
meet standards requiring “that promotional, fundraising, and
public information should describe accurately the organization’s
identity, purpose, programs, and financial needs; that
the organization spend at least 60% of annual expenses on
program activities; that the organization insure that fundraising
expenses, in relation to fundraising results, are reasonable
over time; and that the organization not have a persistent
deficit in net current assets.”