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Post by StrongSweet on Jan 2, 2016 17:27:17 GMT
If she's doing this to pursue music and try to focus on her album 100%, then I don't think it's a bad idea. She states that she's doing really well in her treatment, hence, she might want to start working actively on album 6. Probably the foundation required enough time to make her feel overwhelmed and "out of breath". We know that when it comes to Avril there's never too much going on for her at the same time. She's either completely focused on music (2011-2012), or completely focused on fashion (2012, after finishing the first cut of AL that was then dropped by Flopic), or on her charity, as we saw throughout 2015. And she already said that this year she would work full-on for album 6, so maybe that's what's going on. She wants to devote her time to music, and of course her health which should be her top priority. when did she said wants to be full-on album 6?
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Post by StrongSweet on Jan 2, 2016 17:36:06 GMT
What really surprises me is her official annoucement - like another user already said: Why not taking it slowly with the foundation and do a little less in 2016. Her Annoucement sounds like there wont be any employees anymore and that people shouldnt donate for her foundation anymore. So there is something bigger going on than just Avril being exhausted from Lyme etc. what do u mean by smthg bigger? Legal issue? Career?
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Post by BogoGog24 on Jan 2, 2016 17:39:32 GMT
Well I went back and read the message, it really sounds to me like it is just a temporary thing and that Avril does plan for it to return: "I'm excited to see what we will achieve when it returns." The more I think about it, the more I think it may not really have anything to do with finances (they do have partnerships with bigger non-profits that I'm sure help cover costs as well), but that Avril for whatever reason, whether it's her health or because she is preparing a new album, just can't be involved with it right now and has other things on her plate. I know everybody says "But she isn't there all the time," but as I said before, it is HER foundation with HER name on it. Even if she is not involved with the day to day operations, I think she likes to know what's happening and be as involved as she can and if there's something in her life right now that is preventing her from doing that, I can see why she'd want to put everything on hold for a bit. But it sounds to me like she is planning for it to return. If that wasn't a possibility, such as with financial issues, I'm not sure she'd have written a public announcement at all. If they were having deep issues where it was a high chance that it would go under, I think the last thing she'd want to do is make anything public.
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Post by Uncle Bob on Jan 2, 2016 21:14:08 GMT
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Post by In Wonderland on Jan 2, 2016 21:27:34 GMT
Wow. I just downloaded the tax returns for the Avril Lavigne Foundation for years 2010 - 2014. The low percentage of contributions that actually went to charity is shocking. Only 35.24% Anyone that donated has a right to be angry. In the first five years, $1,016,166 was contributed. That would include any amount that Avril herself kicked in. Only $358,149 was in turn released to her charities. The greatest beneficiary of the Avril Lavigne Foundation was whoever collected $575,996 for consulting services. That's right. 56.83% of all the money donated to the foundation was spent on consulting services. I'm not shocked. Working and trying to work close with different charities here, 25-35% goes to the cause. Rest is distribution cost for employees, pr, cost of projectd in general + many other things. It is disappointing. But that's sadly how it works in many cases.
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Post by eismann on Jan 2, 2016 21:32:24 GMT
Wow. I just downloaded the tax returns for the Avril Lavigne Foundation for years 2010 - 2014. The low percentage of contributions that actually went to charity is shocking. Only 35.24% Anyone that donated has a right to be angry. In the first five years, $1,016,166 was contributed. That would include any amount that Avril herself kicked in. Only $358,149 was in turn released to her charities. The greatest beneficiary of the Avril Lavigne Foundation was whoever collected $575,996 for consulting services. That's right. 56.83% of all the money donated to the foundation was spent on consulting services. That isnt much money at all for a foundation. I thought Avril invested more of her own money into this...
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Post by BogoGog24 on Jan 2, 2016 22:40:08 GMT
I agree with In Wonderland. I'm sure Avril's charity is not the only case like this. It costs money to run a charity, unfortunately 100% of the proceeds cannot go to the actual people in need as we'd all hope. It's an unfortunate truth but hardly shocking. I mean every 6 months where I work we have a fundraiser to raise money for operation costs, our last one raised over $150,000 and where do you bet most of it went to? Operation costs, employee benefits, new equipment, etc. Facf of the matter is a non-profit is extremely costly to run if you don't have outside advertising or partnerships with big corporations that can otherwise afford those costs. Avril's charity may not have raised much money but the fact she has it is still a good thing and they've been able to do great things for many kids, like sending them to camp. Any difference it can make is still a good thing.
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Post by paperbackwriter on Jan 2, 2016 23:34:14 GMT
I thought Avril invested more of her own money into this... She might give directly to organizations instead of putting money into her charity. It might sound weird but I always thought her foundation, as well as other celebrity charities, was more about using her name to give awareness towards charities she's interested in. She could have done all that without a foundation, but I guess grouping it together under her name, when she was popular at least, would give these places more attention. I dunno.... If she has a charity or not I'm sure she'll still push causes and give to charities she's passionate about just like she did before her foundation came into being.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2016 5:33:14 GMT
The lady that interviewed Avril for people magazine said in the promo video she's worth $50,000,000. That's 50 million dollars. If she earned a measly 4% that's 2 million a year to live on. Avril is doing just fine, in fact she's doing better than most can comprehend. Medical cost are a drop in the bucket and besides, either her label or her Union probably offer health insurance. Avril strikes me as person who lives below her means (that's a smart/good thing). Her house in Canada is apparently "modest" by star standards and her latest California acquisition certainly wasn't over the top by Hollywood standards. The Foundation thing could be a tax issue or not. What do we know? Not much.
This is a fan board, and I'm a fan and I wish her nothing but the best. She's worked her ass off for it and she deserves the fruits of her labor.
Oh, and on the pledge before the last one when it came up 30k short of its goal Avril kicked in the rest. And she didn't seek publicity for it. That's a class act.
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Post by BogoGog24 on Jan 3, 2016 14:24:59 GMT
The lady that interviewed Avril for people magazine said in the promo video she's worth $50,000,000. That's 50 million dollars. If she earned a measly 4% that's 2 million a year to live on. Avril is doing just fine, in fact she's doing better than most can comprehend. Medical cost are a drop in the bucket and besides, either her label or her Union probably offer health insurance. Avril strikes me as person who lives below her means (that's a smart/good thing). Her house in Canada is apparently "modest" by star standards and her latest California acquisition certainly wasn't over the top by Hollywood standards. The Foundation thing could be a tax issue or not. What do we know? Not much. This is a fan board, and I'm a fan and I wish her nothing but the best. She's worked her ass off for it and she deserves the fruits of her labor. Oh, and on the pledge before the last one when it came up 30k short of its goal Avril kicked in the rest. And she didn't seek publicity for it. That's a class act. Yeah I've always felt that Avril has never gone super overboard with the Hollywood lifestyle and certainly even less so now. It's as if some of her fans expect her to have the most basic necessities just so she can keep this foundation going and I really don't think that is fair at all. She worked hard for over 10 years to earn that money, if she wants to reward herself with a sizable home and a nice car or whatever, she should be allowed to do that. It doesn't take away from the fact she still helps people in need. If she had all that stuff and never have anything to charity, then I could see that, but we know since the start of her career that she has always been involved with charities. It's not like if anybody else had her money that they wouldn't buy a big house or nice car.
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Post by devon on Jan 8, 2016 2:59:49 GMT
Her fanbase isn't as big as it used to be.
Without a large fanbase, the foundation can't make any money.
Without money, the foundation can't even afford staff year-round to run the foundation properly.
It most likely isn't coming back. She doesn't have the big "name" anymore to make this a viable side-hobby for her.
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Post by gabbox on Jan 11, 2016 16:02:06 GMT
This foundation (as every other vip's foundation..) was born not to pay taxes, and make some charity as well.
The reason why it's closing is just because of a financial matter. Avril herself doesn't really stay behind it - I mean, what she does is going to visit sick kids, releasing music for charity, and other.. but she doesn't really stay at the computer doing the math or something; she has other people paid to do this job for her.
Probably she fired or put these people "In pause" since the foundation is not making much money now and she doesn't want to pay these people now that honestly don't have much work to do now at the foundation.
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