Amount Donated
The Life Ball is the most important source of income for AIDS LIFE. Since its inception, margins from annual proceeds and from the total sum of subsidized projects have been profitably invested to be able to finance national projects for another year, should the Life Ball have to be canceled one year. As proceeds are impossible to forecast, the organization does not finance infrastructure costs of the projects it supports, such as rent, personnel expenses, and operating costs. A failure of AIDS LIFE to produce financial support must not result in the cancellation of a project.
| Year | Sponsors | Net proceeds in EUR | Donations to projects in EUR | Supported international projects |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Life Ball | national | international | |||
| 1993 | 3 | 63.193,98 | 41.685,14 - | - | - |
| 1994 | 167.365,31 | 111.763,65 | - | - | |
| 1995 | 240.149,12 | 143.448,77 | - | - | |
| 1996 | 130 | 335.598,50 | 289.026,98 | - | - |
| 1997 | 140 | 323.789,07 | 224.575,07 | - | - |
| 1998 | 135 | 516.731,42 | 317.103,29 | - | - |
| 1999 | 150 | 691.084,00 | 325.276,25 | 25.944,20 | Austrian charity Nachbar in Not ”Austrian Village” in Turkey |
| 2000 | 185 | 684.942,00 | 398.493,64 | - | - |
| 2001 | 190 | 558.392,33 | 347.735,02 | 420.875,42 | Elton John AIDS Foundation |
| 2002 | 179 | 750.470,00 | 473.238,27 | 272.000,00 | Elton John AIDS Foundation |
| 2003 | 199 | 739.472,83 | 434.067,44 | 374.145,85 | Elton John AIDS Foundation |
| 2004 | 184 | 938.621,04 | 497.183,65 | 406.283,94 | Elton John AIDS Foundation |
| 2005 | 215 | 1.089.705,81 | 452.696,43 | 607.005,42 | Crystal of Hope Elton John AIDS Foundation amfAR |
| 2006 | 217 | 1.076.547,86 | 486.638,88 | 685.988,42 | Crystal of Hope Impilo Südafrika amfAR (TREAT Asia Projekt) |
| 2007 | 280 | 1.821.139,53 | 522.759,59 | 1.343.687,71 | Crystal of Hope amfAR (TREAT Asia Projekt) Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS (CHAI) |
| 2008 | 188 | 1.845.028,06 | 490.551,24 | 655.000,00 | Crystal of Hope amfAR (TREAT Asia Projekt) German AIDS Foundation (DREAM Mozambique) |
| 2009 | 1.640.181,66 | ||||
On May 24, 2007, two days before the Life Ball, a formal dinner with Bill Clinton which was also attended by Austrian President Heinz Fischer and then Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer was held in the Great Gallery of Schönbrunn Palace. With the support of major Austrian companies, the total amount of donations could be raised even further. After dinner, guests enjoyed the Concert for Europe played by the Vienna Philharmonic in the palace’s park and a check worth USD 1 million was presented to Clinton for the HIV/AIDS initiative (CHAI) of his William J. Clinton Foundation. The same program was planned for 2008 but had to be canceled because Clinton was busy with the US primaries.
Since 2008, nine full-time employees of the Life Ball have worked on the acquisition of donations in money and kind and coordinated all volunteers and participants over the course of a year. There are almost 1,000 partners and staff for catering alone. A special audit of finances from 1994 to 2008 by auditing firm Hübner & Hübner in 2009 confirmed Life Ball’s proper financial conduct. At a press conference, Andreas Röthlin also made it clear that “as opposed to many other charitable organizations, AIDS LIFE is very efficiently managed, also and especially with regard to expenses.” At this occasion, AIDS LIFE also received the “Österreichisches Spendengütesiegel” (Reg. Nr. 05685), a quality seal for NPOs awarded by the Austrian auditors’ chamber, valid as of August 24, 2009.
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