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Sacramento Business Journal: Debate grows over value of startup charities - 2006-03-06

Sacramento Business Journal: Debate grows over value of startup charities - 2006-03-06: "Debate grows over value of startup charities
Sacramento Business Journal - March 3, 2006
by Kelly Johnson
Staff Writer

The loss of his mother to ovarian cancer spurred local insurance executive Robert Kingsley to start his own public charity to support ovarian cancer research.

Doug Carson of Sacramento did the same after his first wife died of breast cancer.

So did Robyn Raphael of Roseville after her 5-year-old son died of cancer of the nervous system.

And Dave and Jan Tamayo created a fund within a larger charity after losing their 5-year-old son to brain cancer.

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