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

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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

So help me understand. The Biden Cancer Initiative was not ever supposed to fund research?

So people donate to it knowing their donations aren't going to be used to fund research? But that the organization has a different purpose (explained above)?

So I'm not seeing how there is any problem, here. Of course people are getting salaries -- the organization needs people to do the work and people need to be paid a salary.

So what's the problem exactly?

That it's a transparent non-profit scam?

No, it’s plainly not. It’s a promotional nonprofit and those are commonplace and in fact they’re explicitly authorized as a subset of 501(c)3 entities, even when they’re not Federally sponsored.

But what is a scam is your attempt to place the entity under a false light. You have been lighting up the net for four years with garbage claims of corruption and chicanery on the part of democrats generally - claims that you know to be outright lies. Having lost an election, you are now attempting to place the winners in a false light. No one is buying it any more, OP. In fact, democratic voters in Blue states are ready to kill off your subsidies and your Red welfare and even split the country to get rid of you. Your idiotic lying has poisoned the whole country. Turning your attention to a legitimate nonprofit venture that cross-connects several thousand dispersed research, trial, treatment and prevention efforts does no one any good, and your peculiar and false claims are now read by every high school graduate in the country as a bunch of lies. Quit it and go away, OP. There is no room for you here or anywhere.

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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.

And yet, you support Trump.

As a nonprofit executive, this drives me crazy. No one wants to fund overhead, which actually makes everything more efficient. It doesn't help if nonprofits don't speak to each other and understand what everyone's role is. What happens is that people end up duplicating efforts. The reason this happens is that no one wants to pay for the overhead to be strategic.

no I do not support trump. he makes me sick.

so mr nonprofit executive, what is your salary? are you living a cozy life with two homes, private schools, and vacations abroad?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That quote full of buzzwords and cringe corporate speak is hilarious. Translation: We don't do jack s***. This entire thing is a racket.

+1
And it’s even more hilarious that all these self-professed “intellectuals” are completely snowed by it. Would make a great Onion article.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

And yet, you support Trump.

As a nonprofit executive, this drives me crazy. No one wants to fund overhead, which actually makes everything more efficient. It doesn't help if nonprofits don't speak to each other and understand what everyone's role is. What happens is that people end up duplicating efforts. The reason this happens is that no one wants to pay for the overhead to be strategic.

no I do not support trump. he makes me sick.

so mr nonprofit executive, what is your salary? are you living a cozy life with two homes, private schools, and vacations abroad?

Jealous much?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

So help me understand. The Biden Cancer Initiative was not ever supposed to fund research?

So people donate to it knowing their donations aren't going to be used to fund research? But that the organization has a different purpose (explained above)?

So I'm not seeing how there is any problem, here. Of course people are getting salaries -- the organization needs people to do the work and people need to be paid a salary.

So what's the problem exactly?

That it's a transparent non-profit scam?

No, it’s plainly not. It’s a promotional nonprofit and those are commonplace and in fact they’re explicitly authorized as a subset of 501(c)3 entities, even when they’re not Federally sponsored.

But what is a scam is your attempt to place the entity under a false light. You have been lighting up the net for four years with garbage claims of corruption and chicanery on the part of democrats generally - claims that you know to be outright lies. Having lost an election, you are now attempting to place the winners in a false light. No one is buying it any more, OP. In fact, democratic voters in Blue states are ready to kill off your subsidies and your Red welfare and even split the country to get rid of you. Your idiotic lying has poisoned the whole country. Turning your attention to a legitimate nonprofit venture that cross-connects several thousand dispersed research, trial, treatment and prevention efforts does no one any good, and your peculiar and false claims are now read by every high school graduate in the country as a bunch of lies. Quit it and go away, OP. There is no room for you here or anywhere.

DP. Practically every word you just wrote could be applied to you and your fellow Democrats and your horrific behavior over the past four years. Oh, the irony.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

So help me understand. The Biden Cancer Initiative was not ever supposed to fund research?

So people donate to it knowing their donations aren't going to be used to fund research? But that the organization has a different purpose (explained above)?

So I'm not seeing how there is any problem, here. Of course people are getting salaries -- the organization needs people to do the work and people need to be paid a salary.

So what's the problem exactly?

That it's a transparent non-profit scam?

No, it’s plainly not. It’s a promotional nonprofit and those are commonplace and in fact they’re explicitly authorized as a subset of 501(c)3 entities, even when they’re not Federally sponsored.

But what is a scam is your attempt to place the entity under a false light. You have been lighting up the net for four years with garbage claims of corruption and chicanery on the part of democrats generally - claims that you know to be outright lies. Having lost an election, you are now attempting to place the winners in a false light. No one is buying it any more, OP. In fact, democratic voters in Blue states are ready to kill off your subsidies and your Red welfare and even split the country to get rid of you. Your idiotic lying has poisoned the whole country. Turning your attention to a legitimate nonprofit venture that cross-connects several thousand dispersed research, trial, treatment and prevention efforts does no one any good, and your peculiar and false claims are now read by every high school graduate in the country as a bunch of lies. Quit it and go away, OP. There is no room for you here or anywhere.

DP. Practically every word you just wrote could be applied to you and your fellow Democrats and your horrific behavior over the past four years. Oh, the irony.

Factually false. But everyone fully appreciates that you can’t really tell the difference. You can’t actually read your King James Version. The view in every direction from your trailer is the same. Kenneth Copeland gives you the same instructions no matter whether you pick him up on cable or dish. You might be able to afford more than one semiautomatic per month, if you get a payout from some claimed injury. And no matter how much you get from workers comp, supplemental disability, AFDC, and everything else that you live off and that I pay for, neither intelligence nor common sense can be trained in your Klavern meetings or elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Rather disgusting that these "executives" of a non-profit supposed charity make 9-10x the median income.

Then they scold workers about how useless tariffs are and tell them to learn to code.

Any "foundation" where 30%+ of donations goes to wages (in this case its double that) and where any employees makes higher than the GS-15 level should not get non-profit status.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

So help me understand. The Biden Cancer Initiative was not ever supposed to fund research?

So people donate to it knowing their donations aren't going to be used to fund research? But that the organization has a different purpose (explained above)?

So I'm not seeing how there is any problem, here. Of course people are getting salaries -- the organization needs people to do the work and people need to be paid a salary.

So what's the problem exactly?

That it's a transparent non-profit scam?

No, it’s plainly not. It’s a promotional nonprofit and those are commonplace and in fact they’re explicitly authorized as a subset of 501(c)3 entities, even when they’re not Federally sponsored.

But what is a scam is your attempt to place the entity under a false light. You have been lighting up the net for four years with garbage claims of corruption and chicanery on the part of democrats generally - claims that you know to be outright lies. Having lost an election, you are now attempting to place the winners in a false light. No one is buying it any more, OP. In fact, democratic voters in Blue states are ready to kill off your subsidies and your Red welfare and even split the country to get rid of you. Your idiotic lying has poisoned the whole country. Turning your attention to a legitimate nonprofit venture that cross-connects several thousand dispersed research, trial, treatment and prevention efforts does no one any good, and your peculiar and false claims are now read by every high school graduate in the country as a bunch of lies. Quit it and go away, OP. There is no room for you here or anywhere.

DP. Practically every word you just wrote could be applied to you and your fellow Democrats and your horrific behavior over the past four years. Oh, the irony.

Factually false. But everyone fully appreciates that you can’t really tell the difference. You can’t actually read your King James Version. The view in every direction from your trailer is the same. Kenneth Copeland gives you the same instructions no matter whether you pick him up on cable or dish. You might be able to afford more than one semiautomatic per month, if you get a payout from some claimed injury. And no matter how much you get from workers comp, supplemental disability, AFDC, and everything else that you live off and that I pay for, neither intelligence nor common sense can be trained in your Klavern meetings or elsewhere.

Wow, the projection is intense with this one ^^^. I think you’d be disappointed to know that I actually live in a gorgeous home in Great Falls. But carry on! That was somewhat entertaining.

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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.

I agree. I voted for Biden but as a cancer patient this makes me sick. Money needs to go directly to research. New research. So much money wasted paying huge salaries to people doing nothing but listening to themselves talk. We don’t need more non researchers putting their greedy hands in the cancer pot.

+100

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:That quote full of buzzwords and cringe corporate speak is hilarious. Translation: We don't do jack s***. This entire thing is a racket.

+1
And it’s even more hilarious that all these self-professed “intellectuals” are completely snowed by it. Would make a great Onion article.

Says the people who support the directors of the Trump Foundation and Trump University.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

+100
Absolutely this. This is exactly the kind of nonsense that liberals eat up. A foundation that does nothing, yet uses as many meaningless catchphrases as possible to disguise that fact. The posters defending this are as full as BS as that “foundation” is.

I'm not a liberal, or even a Democrat, but the hypocrisy you're spewing is laughable.
Have you thoroughly vetted Trump's charitable work too? I'd love to hear your explanation and defense of that.

[Anonymous]

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.

No, dummy. People contributed for research. Not hunters new crack pipe.
Be better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That quote full of buzzwords and cringe corporate speak is hilarious. Translation: We don't do jack s***. This entire thing is a racket.

+1
And it’s even more hilarious that all these self-professed “intellectuals” are completely snowed by it. Would make a great Onion article.

Says the people who support the directors of the Trump Foundation and Trump University.

You are wrong. Real democrats recognize that supporting this kind of thing will kill the party. If we don't speak up and tell biden "aww come on man! What would your working class father say!" then trumpism will win next election.