komen for the cure ceo

[Danzig]

http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news...-canceled?lite


so many charities start out for a good reason...

and then it becomes a bloated shell of its former existence, with more and more of the donations going to support the charity, instead of being used for actual charitable purposes.
donate wisely.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Danzig

http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news...-canceled?lite


so many charities start out for a good reason...

and then it becomes a bloated shell of its former existence, with more and more of the donations going to support the charity, instead of being used for actual charitable purposes.
donate wisely.

Susan G Komen could have kept the gravy train rolling forever if they could have kept the politics of their muckety mucks out of everything. But as soon as they ended that grant to Planned Parenthood, what did they think would happen? PP is exceptionally good at mobilizing, and has the advantage of having been used by millions of women for their health care, so it has a track record of providing services to a lot of poor and middle-class women. Who got pissed at the grant getting eliminated. And then all the skeletons started coming out of the closet.

I did the Race for the Cure once back in the mid-90s (my boyfriend's mom asked me to do it with her), but back then men weren't allowed to run and I remember thinking it was incredibly unfair that girls and women could run, regardless of their breast cancer status, but men and boys couldn't, unless they'd actually had breast cancer (rare, but happens). What, men can't be concerned about breast cancer too? First and last Race for the Cure I did. (I heard they later opened it up to men, too, but I was soured on the charity by then.)

[Danzig]

i always investigate a charity before giving. i think if more than a certain percentage of donations goes to things other than actual charitable works, they should lose their status!
yet another 'good intention' gone awry. it's too bad, because they accomplish a lot. but the ceo deserves that kind of money? c'mon. and they need that much overhead to operate?

and i agree, men should never have been barred. they get the disease, and they are affected by it.

[GenuineRisk]

I don't really think the Susan G Komen org accomplishes much besides raising money. In 2011, only 15 percent of their donations went towards research. Over 40 percent went towards "education."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...8171KW20120208

I'm always wary of disease-related charities that spend the majority of their money on "raising awareness" or "education." It can easily become a cover for expensive trip and events that don't actually get any money to actual brick-and-mortar research facilities or health care clinics.

You're right that it's important to investigate charities before giving! As some of the articles that came out in the wake of the Susan G Komen thing said, people would be better off donating directly to a research facility or health care clinic itself; not to an intermediary.

[dellinger63]

Good news though, next year, as everyone will be required to have health coverage by law. Every dime can then go to research.

Federal funding for free clinics be gone. Maybe we will see some money back and all these claims of policies going up by 50-100% will be off set by the money saved shutting down the free/supplemented clinics/hospitals. Yea Right!

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

I don't really think the Susan G Komen org accomplishes much besides raising money. In 2011, only 15 percent of their donations went towards research. Over 40 percent went towards "education."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...8171KW20120208

I'm always wary of disease-related charities that spend the majority of their money on "raising awareness" or "education." It can easily become a cover for expensive trip and events that don't actually get any money to actual brick-and-mortar research facilities or health care clinics.

You're right that it's important to investigate charities before giving! As some of the articles that came out in the wake of the Susan G Komen thing said, people would be better off donating directly to a research facility or health care clinic itself; not to an intermediary.

yeah, i remember reading about their awareness and 'education' funding back when they tried to pull the plug on the PP funding.

[Clip-Clop]

Borderline criminal enterprise. Racketeering for one. Suing small outfits trying to raise money for actual research or to help people pay medical bills for using the word "cure". They should shut them down and PETA too.