With a 39 percent increase in active patients in the past five years and a 58 percent rise in outpatient appointments over the past decade, Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) is launching a strategic initiative to keep pace with its clinical expansion needs. Today its Campaign to Build a Greater Roswell Park gained impressive momentum to meet this objective thanks to a collaborative $10 million gift from ten Western New York families.
Through the creation of a "Circle of 10," the 10 families have stepped forward to provide gifts of $1 million each. The funds will support the building of RPCI's Clinical Sciences Center (CSC). The 10-story, 123,500-square-foot Center will be located on the corner of Michigan and Carlton Streets, and will be joined to RPCI's adjacent main hospital building via connecting bridges. FXFOWLE is designing the structure.
Circle members include well-known business and philanthropic leaders and a grateful Roswell Park patient and her husband. The Circle of 10's generosity was celebrated on Wednesday, June 8 at the site of the future CSC. Representatives from each family gathered to sign a ceremonial steel beam to commemorate the occasion.
The price tag for the CSC is $40 million for construction. With $10 million from the Circle of 10, $10 million committed by RPCI Corporation, and $10 million raised thus far in additional gifts, volunteers from the Roswell Park Alliance Foundation--RPCI's not-for-profit fundraising arm--now seek to raise the remaining $10 million to see the building through to completion.
Members of the Circle of 10 Include:
Mr. Scott R. Bieler
The William and Nancy Gacioch Family
The Garman Family
Richard and Anne Gioia and Anthony and Donna Gioia
G. Wayne and Charline (Bunkie) Hawk
The Jacobs Family
Patrick P. Lee
Stanford and Judith Lipsey
The late Lawrence Minet, PhD
Ralph Wilson, Jr. (The Ralph C. Wilson Foundation)
The CSC will house a new, expanded Chemotherapy Infusion Clinic that will offer patients a picturesque view of Buffalo's skyline; a Comprehensive Breast Services Center that will offer screening mammography services; and a Patient Education/Survivorship Center for Roswell Park's 31,000 patients and their families. The expansion will allow for the following:
• Chemo-Infusion expanded from 35 to 70 stations
• Breast Clinic expanded from 12 to 24 exam rooms
• Patient Education and Survivorship services expanded 3 to 4x to reach patients, caregivers, family members
• 50-60,000 square feet created for Clinical Administration - allowing clinicians and researchers to work in closer proximity to their patients.
Those damn rich people don't do anything good for the community. /sarcasm
Wait wait wait. I've got a great idea....let's increase their taxes.
That way we can kill two birds with one stone:
1) They won't have as much money to donate
2) The money collected by taxes will go into the "system" which we all know will efficiently handle it right?
i got a better idea... let's sue them...yeah!!!!
Or we can increase taxes on the rest of us, especially on the middle class. A civilized society takes a lot of money to manage and we need to get that money from somewhere. The top earners have received all of the tax breaks and gains of the past 30 years and have yet to be asked to share the burden of our present economic situation. Time to step up and respect the country and people that made their fortunes possible.
These tax breaks and tax cuts that roll off your keyboard so quickly are nothing but empty words. I wish you could provide numbers or details. I'm no tax connoisseur, but I do know that we don't use a flat tax system in this country. The Rich are taxed higher then the poor. That's all I need to know. I'm not saying money is everything but it does make people work and work hard. I don't want to live in a country where people are punished for being successful. That's it. If we had a flat tax system, where the poor were taxed equally as the rich or even more, then you would have a point, but they aren't.....the wealthy of America pay more % of income in taxes.
The United States uses a Progressive Tax Bracket.
The wealthy don't always pay more in taxes. Warren Buffet stated that he pays a lower percentage of his income in taxes than his secretary does.
And especially when you factor in total tax burden (such as sales tax on living essentials) as opposed to just income tax, you find that the wealthy generally pay a significantly lower percentage of their income in taxes than the rest of us.
Your probably right...... I know I have a friend who is a tax lawyer and he doesn't pay taxes(income). I feel like the loop holes are probably available to all the SES brackets, it just finding them that makes the difference.