Big Pay for Cancer Foundation Consultants Is Criticized
About half of the private money raised to help the beleaguered Texas cancer research institute in fiscal year 2011 went to administrative fees and overhead, benefitting the consultants who oversaw distribution of the funds, documents show.
The figures, contained in an annual report of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas Foundation, are prompting more calls for reform and transparency.
The nonprofit foundation was set up to boost executive salaries and support operations at the cancer agency, known as CPRIT, but hundreds of thousands of dollars also went to the consultants who run the charitable organization, documents and interviews ...
Comments (6)
audrey fisher
Sigh, another article that few care about: when will folks ever wake up to the way in which $$$$ here in TX are being cycled in a black-box.
CPRIT says that they don't and won't release financial donor's, in fact their high dollar glossy doesn't even inform anyone who is being paid for "research" and certainly no clue where these funds are going.
Then they send money to a private corporation that was created by Venture Capitalists, add a smattering of "big names" and everyone get's rich? Anyone seen any research outcome? Too soon? Or is this just another way to privatize all of Texas?
Here's hoping the Investigation into this will inform Texan's if we are being sold yet another bag of smelly brown stuff - like we have seen via TALF and TEP programs via the Rick Perry regime.
Jim Vance
Gee, and neither the author nor an editor thought the use of a highly appropriate colloquial term -- "honey pot" -- was needed for this article? C'mon...this is Texas, after all, and that's how we do bidness here!
audrey fisher
Just a update for the few in TX who care about how much taxpayer money has been gifted by Gov. Rick Perry and his "cronies": http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/15/texas-cancer-agency-_n_2307946.html?ref=topbar
Just a note to all the Texans who continue to believe that the GOP can do no harm and are doing such a bang up job as being "fiscal conservatives" and not wasting a nickel - this venture is thus far only wasted $3billion. Now feel free to try and smear the messenger - it won't make the facts or the investigation go away, but have at it!
MadDawgg
I'm all for open government and best practices, and while it's clear that there are questions about CPRIT's granting processes, Andrew Wheat's unsubstantiated accusation that Stevens "paid herself" excessively comes close to slander. In the first place, private foundations are governed by boards of directors which set compensation for its executive staff. In the second, the article misleads the reader to think her company was paid $600k, when in fact the amount it received was around a third of that. The company performed valuable services worth what it was paid. Lastly, and this is important, the money her firm was paid came from private sources, not taxpayer dollars. The donors are all aware of how their money is being spent.
It's a fair question to ask whether or not the CPRIT foundation donors received preferential treatment in the granting process, which we now know to have been flawed. But it's unfair and reckless to suggest that Jennifer Stevens has engaged in any wrongdoing.
Della Creighton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Thats another reason I quit donating to any of these foundations lost the meaning of the startting and start making something it isn't
Juan Reynoso
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