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Name:	CancerCare
Address:	275 Seventh Avenue, 22nd Floor
	New York, NY 10001
Phone:	212-712-8400 800-813-4673
Web Address:	www.cancercare.org

CancerCare meets the 20Standards for Charity Accountability.

With the help of professional oncology social workers, CancerCare provides face-to-face, telephone, and online counseling to individuals and groups. The organization also has a CancerCare Connect program that involves Telephone Education Workshops (TEWs). Through the TEWs, participants are given the opportunity to listen and ask questions to cancer experts on a wide range of cancer topics. The organization's CancerCare Assist program assists people who are struggling with cancer-related expenses such as pain medication, transportation to and from treatment, home care, and child care. CancerCare Inform offers help, including educational materials and information and referrals. CancerCare's website, www.cancercare.org, is a resource where visitors can communicate with a social worker, join a support group, listen to an archived TEW, and access information on a variety of topics. CancerCare reports that during the 2007-2008 fiscal year, about 53,400 and more than 5,000 people received counseling and participated in CancerCare’s online support groups respectively. Some ($328,000, or 9%) of CancerCare's information and publications programs are carried out in conjunction with fund raising efforts.

For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2007, CancerCare's program expenses were:

Counseling and support	5,275,852
Financial assistance	4,100,647
Information and publications	3,758,817
Education	1,112,134
Total Program Expenses:	$14,247,450

Chief Executive : Diane S. Blum, Executive Director

Compensation*:

$283,826

Chair of the Board: Paul M. Friedman
Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation: Investment banker, Mariner Capital

Board Size: 34

Paid Staff Size: 120

*July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2007 compensation includes annual salary and, if applicable, benefit plans, expense accounts, and other allowances.

Method(s) Used:

Direct mail, telemarketing, special events, grant proposals, Internet appeals, planned giving, and cause-related marketing

Fund raising costs were 16% of related contributions. (Related contributions, which totaled $19,005,981, are donations received as a result of fund raising activities.)

CancerCare incurred joint costs of $1,328,000 for informational materials and activities that included fund raising materials. Of those costs, $1,000,000 was allocated to fund raising expenses and $328,000 was allocated to program expenses.

This organization is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is eligible to receive contributions deductible as charitable donations for federal income tax purposes.

The following information is based on CancerCare's audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2007:

Source of Funds
Contributions from foundations and corporations	10,387,150
Special events, net	2,490,372
Legacies and bequests	1,748,765
Donated goods and services	1,515,853
Direct marketing	1,180,872
Contributions from individuals	1,023,882
Thrift shop sales, net	472,437
Sponsorships and cause-related marketing	387,131
United Way	171,956
Interest and dividends	135,108
Government grants	100,000
Other income	47,704
Total Income	$19,661,230

Uses of Funds as a % of Total Expenses

Programs: 79%  Fund Raising: 17%  Administrative: 4%

Total income				$19,661,230
	Program expenses			$14,247,450
	Fund raising expenses			3,123,463
	Administrative expenses			789,598
Total expenses				$18,160,511
Income in Excess of Expenses				1,500,719
Beginning net assets				14,280,609
Other Changes in Net Assets				1,733,312
Ending net assets				17,514,640
Total liabilities				2,454,351
Total assets				$19,968,991

Note: According to CancerCare's audited financial statements for the year ended June 30, 2007, the organization received $1,515,853 in in-kind donations for pro-bono advertising.

Note 2: In the above financial summary, "other changes in net assets" ($1,733,312) represents net appreciation on long-term investments.