Alpe d'HuZes

Alpe d'HuZes is a Dutch fundraising event for combating cancer in which people climb, typically by bike, six times in a single day.

Short after the 2013 edition, the event and foundation were criticized because they hadn't been able to actually spend 37 million euro of the collected donations from the previous years and researchers complained that the process to get funding was opaque.

[5] It turned out that the subsidy of 3 million was only partially spent on scientific research, but mostly on management fees and reimbursement for travel.

[6] The scandal played out widely in the Dutch media, and one of the most successful fundraising effort was suddenly much less appreciated.

In the years after, Alpe d'HuZes and KWF strengthened its checks and balances after they were forced to admit that oversight was insufficient in the case of Inspire2Live and some other subsidies.