Tax filings reveal Biden cancer charity spent millions on salaries, zero on research

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Anonymous wrote:

I love Biden, but this indeed looks like elitist gobblygook without a concrete example of something they have done. Can they give an example of an efficiency they have found?

I imagine they can and they have, but they aren't posting on DCUM. Obviously. And you do not "love Biden" lol. Get better trolling skills and come back.

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It looks like they shut down fundraising when he began his run for President because... look how much cr*p Hillary got for taking donations for her charity while she was in office or running?

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. But he didn't take a dime of the money, and neither did his kids.

[Anonymous]

Trump cretins signing up idiots for their cult through idiotic conspiracy theories. To these people,if you ain't injecting bleach to cure your covid it ain't science.

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Did they spend donation money on a big portrait of Biden? I don't think so.

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I have worked for an organization that lobbies for grants to cancer researchers. We are all volunteers and have managed to secure a number of grants. Even a very small grant that allows a researcher to hire an assistant can make a huge difference. The salaries are embarrassing for a cancer charity.

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I know Simon personally and I can promise you that he went to a lot of lunches and gave a lot of speeches and spoke on a lot of panels.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sigh. Read the underlying documents. The foundation exists to manage and administer grants, not to conduct funding itself. The American Medical Association doesn’t operate a single hospital - so you probably think that’s made-up too.

Fully understood that you’re a Trump Troll but you just have to be smarter than that post.

So they are essentially a small business that use a charitable designation to pay no taxes?

You are at least a consistent moron:

"In establishing the Biden Cancer Initiative, Vice President Biden and Dr Jill Biden strengthened their commitment to bring together all stakeholders in the oncology space to reimagine how the government, academia, nonprofits, and the private sector can better organize their resources to improve cancer care. The initiative works closely with patients and patient organizations, cancer researchers, cancer centers, research universities, governments, private and philanthropic sectors, and organizations including the Academy of Oncology Nurse & Patient Navigators to identify and address the critical issues in cancer prevention, research, and care to drive new actions and collaborations to find cures."

[Gregory C. Simon is the President of the Biden Cancer Initiative, as well as the former Executive Director of the White House Cancer Moonshot.]

"JONS: Can you describe the methods to achieve your mission?

Mr Simon: The point of the Biden Cancer Initiative is not to fund projects, interfere with regulatory decisions, or to lobby. We do not give grants, we do not touch patient data, we are not a silo of genomic information. Instead, we’re looking for efficiencies that can be implemented and addressing cultural issues that might be slowing us dow­n— the brakes we are leaving on while we drive the car, so to speak. Our goal is to work with the different organizations to figure out how they can double what they’re doing. When problems arise, we’ll address it by assessing solutions that already exist. We want to enrich the possibilities to scale a ubiquitous solution to a local solution.

We focus on creating the solutions to the problems that we know already exist, elevating collaborations and new efforts that improve patient outcomes and save lives."

http://www.jons-online.com/issues/2019/march-2019-vol-10-no-3/2324-the-biden-cancer-initiative

gobbledygook.

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Exactly. How do the salaries here compare to other charitable organizations of the same size?

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I figured out an efficiency.

If they disband and stop taking contributions to pay their salaries the money saved could be used to fund actual research.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know Simon personally and I can promise you that he went to a lot of lunches and gave a lot of speeches and spoke on a lot of panels.

These people remind me of all the administrators at the university where I work. they are absolutely convinced that they are earning their huge salaries by going to lunches, being on panels. The problem is that no one in the faculty, student body, staff, or the parents who are paying would agree. And they are completely oblivious to this. They think because they use long sentences with a lot of abstract nouns, they must be doing something important. It is bloating university costs. This seems like good money that could have gone directly to scientists is allowing the aristocracy to feel like they have an interesting, important job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wonder how many of these employees will be tapped to serve in Biden's administration.

A cancer charity started by Joe Biden gave out no money to research, and spent most of its contributions on staff salaries, federal filings show.

The Biden Cancer Initiative was founded in 2017 by the former vice president and his wife Jill Biden to help find “solutions to accelerate progress in cancer prevention” and help find a cure, but gave out no grants in its first two years, and spent millions on the salaries of former Washington DC aides it hired.

The charity took in $4,809,619 in contributions in fiscal years 2017 and 2018, and spent $3,070,301 on payroll in those two years. The group’s president, Gregory Simon, raked in $429,850 in fiscal 2018 (July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019), according to the charity’s most recent federal tax filings.

Simon, a former Pfizer executive and longtime health care lobbyist who headed up the White Houses’s cancer task force in the Obama administration, saw his salary nearly double from the $224,539 he made in fiscal 2017, tax filings show.

Danielle Carnival, former chief of staff for Obama’s cancer initiative, the Cancer Moonshot Task Force, who took home $258,207 in 2018.

https://nypost.com/2020/11/14/biden-cancer-initiative-spent-millions-on-payroll-zero-on-research-report/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow

Normal. But it’s cute someone thinks this is a scandal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It looks like they shut down fundraising when he began his run for President because... look how much cr*p Hillary got for taking donations for her charity while she was in office or running?

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. But he didn't take a dime of the money, and neither did his kids.

Neither did the Clintons or Chelsea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know Simon personally and I can promise you that he went to a lot of lunches and gave a lot of speeches and spoke on a lot of panels.

These people remind me of all the administrators at the university where I work. they are absolutely convinced that they are earning their huge salaries by going to lunches, being on panels. The problem is that no one in the faculty, student body, staff, or the parents who are paying would agree. And they are completely oblivious to this. They think because they use long sentences with a lot of abstract nouns, they must be doing something important. It is bloating university costs. This seems like good money that could have gone directly to scientists is allowing the aristocracy to feel like they have an interesting, important job.

If you think that is all these people do, then you are the one who needs an education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wonder how many of these employees will be tapped to serve in Biden's administration.

A cancer charity started by Joe Biden gave out no money to research, and spent most of its contributions on staff salaries, federal filings show.

The Biden Cancer Initiative was founded in 2017 by the former vice president and his wife Jill Biden to help find “solutions to accelerate progress in cancer prevention” and help find a cure, but gave out no grants in its first two years, and spent millions on the salaries of former Washington DC aides it hired.

The charity took in $4,809,619 in contributions in fiscal years 2017 and 2018, and spent $3,070,301 on payroll in those two years. The group’s president, Gregory Simon, raked in $429,850 in fiscal 2018 (July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019), according to the charity’s most recent federal tax filings.

Simon, a former Pfizer executive and longtime health care lobbyist who headed up the White Houses’s cancer task force in the Obama administration, saw his salary nearly double from the $224,539 he made in fiscal 2017, tax filings show.

Danielle Carnival, former chief of staff for Obama’s cancer initiative, the Cancer Moonshot Task Force, who took home $258,207 in 2018.

https://nypost.com/2020/11/14/biden-cancer-initiative-spent-millions-on-payroll-zero-on-research-report/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow

Normal. But it’s cute someone thinks this is a scandal.

I think it is a scandal. Unless they can articulate better what they are contributing, they don't deserve a salary greater than $200k per year. No way. This kind of artistocracy, of people taking salaries far more than they need, far more than they deserve, is destroying our nation. If Biden can be fooled by this type, it is a bad sign for our future.

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Anonymous wrote:Wake me up when the Bidens receive a court order to disband their charity and force the board to go through ethics training and ban the board from serving on other boards.

Yes, remind me of the family foundation that those things occured. Who was it?