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Only about 60%[0] of the American Cancer Society revenue goes to charity to begin with so that is to be expected. Most of the cancer charities I've seen (Susan G Komen et all) are rather bad.

[0] http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary...

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Well the issue specifically is Childhood Cancer Research funding.

This link will state a good pissed off parents stance on ACS. They raised funds for their daughter and asked people to donate to ACS instead of flowers. Then they realized where their money was going after ACS pulled funding of summer camps across the nation with out any warning.

http://curechildhoodcancer.ning.com/profiles/blogs/my-though...

ok, can someone explain the best places to donate? I've donated to Fred Hutch in the past:

http://www.fredhutch.org/en.html

Who's effective with the money and doing great research?

I like this article myself: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/what-is-...

That article has nothing to do with cancer research.

I believe that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital does a pretty good job: http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary...

https://www.stjude.org/

Well, that depends on how the non-charity money is used. If that 40 cents on dollar is used to effectively raise another 3 dollars, then it is still worth it. In other words, would you still feel OK with contributing to an advertising campaign that ends up getting other people to contribute to a charity fund that they normally wouldn't?

Are you reading that wrong? That site says 59.6% of the ACS's expenses go to "Program Expenses", which is what Charity Navigator calls the charity's core mission programs.

Sorry flipped it around in my wording, I'll fix it.

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