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Company Profile - American Cancer Society, Inc.

1599 Clifton Road, NE
Atlanta, GA 30329-4251

Phone: 404-320-3333
Phone2: 800-227-2345
Fax: 404-329-5787
Website: www.cancer.org

Key Facts

In 1999, an ACS research grant recipient made a breakthrough in breast cancer research.
Promotes itself through corporate partnerships with companies like the Florida Department of Citrus and GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare.
In February 2000 it announced that it would spend $10 million on its first paid ad campaign to publicize its name and mission.
Key Financial Facts
1999 revenue: $672 million
1-yr. growth rate: 11 percent

Personnel Highlights
Number of employees: 4,500
1-yr. growth rate: 1.9 percent

Company Overview
There are more than 1,000 nonprofit organizations with the word cancer in their names, but this is the original and the largest nonprofit in the country devoted to fighting cancer. Its official goal is to reduce cancer death rates by 50 percent by 2015. Founded in 1913 by a group of New York doctors, it now has locations in over 3,400 communities nationwide.

The society works on all fronts of cancer prevention, from sponsoring community-based programs and lobbying against the tobacco industry to providing an around-the-clock national call center and helping HMOs improve early cancer-detection techniques. Last year it floated $84.3 million in grants into the scientific community for cancer-related research.

Funded through public support, the ACS reported $556.2 million in donations for fiscal year 1997-98, a 13.9 percent increase over the previous year. It reports that 71 percent of its revenue is spent on programs and research, and 29 percent goes towards overhead costs.

Major Line of Business : Non-Profit & Government

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