Talk:Little Baby Face Foundation

message: I have nothing against LBFF -- I wish them all the luck in the world -- but I think it's fair to point out that they are a really small organization right now, and this isn't likely to dramatically change any time soon (=in the next five years).  Here's some information that other editors might consider relevant:
*  Impact:  A quick back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that about 150,000 babies worldwide are born each year with facial deformities related to LBFF's mission; they arranged surgery for exactly twenty-one children and teens during 2007.  This is about average for them:  their website claims that they have helped about 100 kids in the last six years.  Compare this to The Smile Train, which has performed almost 300,000 of these surgeries in the last nine years, and Operation Smile, which has performed more than 100,000 surgeries in the last 25 years.  Helping anyone is certainly noble, but helping 0.014% of the people who need it is probably not notable enough to merit inclusion in a worldwide encyclopedia.  
*  Activity:  They have three part-time employees, maybe two dozen volunteers at any given moment, an annual budget (on a three-year average) of about $200K, and total assets of about the same amount.  They get maybe three contacts a week from healthcare professionals, and maybe three contacts a day from families looking for more information.  
I suggest forgetting for a moment that this is a noble charity, and just looking at it as an organization.  Would Wikipedia normally accept an article on, say, a medical clinic that arranged a single surgery every couple of weeks?  How about a clinic whose total revenues were less than half what one Manhattan attorney makes in a year?  Or one that only heard from three potential patients each day?  
If LBFF is specifically associated with a larger organization (e.g., all the surgeries are performed at the same hospital), then they might merit a sentence in a larger article, but I'm not feeling the notability here for a stand-alone article.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:57, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Notability

message: Here are some references I've found. I'm sure there are more--search engines don't turn up everything that's out there, so if there's some particular sort of reference that would help establish notability, let me know and I'll see what I can find. Most of the listings are profiles of individuals. There's a lot about fundraising--I've only listed an AP article about a Sopranos motorcycle being auctioned and a NYMEX partnership notice.
I've got a few questions below, please let me know what you think!
===Documentary===
There's an online version, and a profile at IMDB--what's the best place to link?
*"Profiles in Caring" (IMDB)
*"Profiles in Caring" documentary online at GoodTube
===Magazine Articles===
*“Mommy, I can Hear!” By Lisa Collier Cool, BetterHearing.org, reprinted with permission from the June 2005 issue of Parents magazine -- Can anyone verify that this reprint was indeed published in Parents Magazine? Parents Magazine doesn't have a copy online. The doctor has the same text with pictures also credited to the same author and Parents Magazine. Either searching the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature or finding a print copy of the June 2005 issue would do it.
*Suffering in Silence, by Emma Rosenblum, June 5, 2005, New York Magazine
===Newspaper Articles===
New_York_Daily_News is apparently the fifth most-widely circulated daily. Does that work as a source? 
*Earmarked for Aid Hearing-impaired Ariz. boy set for surgeries by Dave Goldiner New York Daily News, January 13, 2004
*Joy After Son's Ear Surgery by Lindsay Fortado and Owen Moritz, New York Daily News, January 25th 2004
*In the Hear & Now: 6-year-old born with one ear gets miracle gift from doc, but, for now, sez, Turn it down! by Alison Gendar, New York Daily News, April 17, 2004
*Ear's Lookin' At You, Kid! Surgeries by City Pro Give L.A. boy a Sound Foundation by Jose Martinez, New York Daily News, November 24, 2005
*Harley owned by Sopranos actor Federico Castelluccio up for auction, AP article reprinted in New York Daily News, March 25, 2008
The Syosset-Jericho Tribune is apparently a regional newspaper per Anton_Community_Newspapers; let me know if you think that's better to leave out:
*Amazing Alec Mazur Receives the Gift of Sound, December 23, 2005, Syosset-Jericho Tribune
===Foundation Partners===
*NYMEX Foundation Partners with Little Baby Face Foundation, June 3, 2008
Let me know what you think, or feel free to add any of these to the article if they're useful. Otherwise, I'll try to come back to do that in a few days. Jodi.a.schneider (talk) 13:00, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: *NYMEX Foundation Partners with Little Baby Face Foundation, June 3, 2008
Let me know what you think, or feel free to add any of these to the article if they're useful. Otherwise, I'll try to come back to do that in a few days. Jodi.a.schneider (talk) 13:00, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Foundation Partners