Are there any good breast cancer charities to donate to?

Maybe there are some honest ones but I havnt found any

Either I donate to BCO because they help us in every aspect of bc.

Or

I help someone I know that has the beast by either cooking a meal or just some financial help..there are a lot of sistas that help each other

Why give to a charity ????charity begins at home???here..

Focktober stinks...pink stinks too.

BCRF does have a good reputation in terms of maintaining a pretty small staff and having a very excellent ratio of administrative cost to money that actually goes to research, but my complaint about them is that they are very firmly tied to Estee Lauder cosmetics - which owns Clinique, Bobbi Brown, MAC and a bunch of other cosmetic companies - and they produce cosmetics with carcinogens. This seems like a bit of a disconnest to me personally. You always have the option of donating to any research organization affiliated with an NCI hospital - which is what I do, or I imagine, directly to the NCI.  They are among the organizations actively pursuing research that will hopefully lead to a cure.

You might want to check out Stand Up 2 Cancer.

This is from their website:

How will donations to Stand Up To Cancer be used? 100 percent of the donations received from the public will go directly to cancer research.

We have partnered with the prestigious American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) to provide scientific oversight and expert peer review, and administer Stand Up To Cancer grants, which fund:

• Dream Teams (multi-disciplinary and collaborative groups of scientists that will be responsible for conducting novel, groundbreaking cancer research projects that address critical problems in patient care and are designed to deliver near-term patient benefit).  The research being done by the Dream Teams already at work has the potential to impact the diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of cancers that are responsible for two thirds of the cancer deaths in the U.S.
• Individual innovative grantees conducting high-risk, potentially high-reward research projects that would often not be supported by conventional funding sources.

Guidestar.org has most all non-profit IRS filings. It shows how much they earned, how much the executives get in salary and how much they spend. It's a great site for large and small organizations.

You have to register to use the site but its free. I've been using it for years. It's a wonderful resource!

You can contribute to breastcancer.org right here.

Metavivor.org is volunteer run and gives 100% of funds to breast cancer research. They focus on cutting-edge research that keeps people alive and hopefully lead to a cure. They are headquartered in Maryland and I've met these folks. They are patient people and are all breast cancer fighters.

Yeah, my nurse tried to encourage me to donate on ACS and I found out that during my journey they haven't help me at all.  They give you somebody to talk to but they live on the East Coast and you could not even call them anytime. You have to call the ACS first then someone will call you very late in the evening and wil, tell you they cant talk that long coz its already midnight in their area. I went to get some free wig and aftre I been driving that far I could not even use it coz it was really cheap and doesnt look good. They also rented a place which kind of pretty scary to go on your own coz the neighborhood seems funky so I left and cancel my appointment and went to their other location. I put them in my spam when they email me coz they havent really help at all. I will not even donate my time for a walk coz for me most of these organization dont care about us but just care about their pockets. They care about numbers. The only place that help me with support is this website. People her are real and they help me a lot with dealing on side effect and emotional ups and down.

Melissa---u r so right

Why not donate to BCO

They are there for all of us 24/7.

I support the CIBC Run for the Cure that is held here in Canada.  I used to get so sick of all the pink stuff, bake sales, raffles etc. every time I went in the bank.

Then, I got diagnosed and where did I end up?  At the CIBC Breast Centre at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto.  And now I have done a complete 360 on the bank's fundraising.

In the year I have been going there, I have seen some improvements in an already excellent clinic.  When I had my first mammogram since surgery, I had the results before I left the hospital.  No anxiety waiting for a week for results.

I'm going to be volunteering at this year's race.  And I'm quite excited to be able to 'give back' a bit to an agency that has been really great to me.

I would also support BCO for the same reason...don't know how I would have survived without it.

My birthday is in October. Instead of gifts, I've asked folks to give to METAvivor