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Deflamation-not sure that happened. But, it is not for me to decide. No damage to my reputation.
Debating etiquette, I just reviewed. In the future, I will not respond to what you call defamatory comments.
My response, concerning Komen, with other members, will be more of a platonic relationship: communication with disagreement but comfortable without damaging the relationship but factual for enrichment of shared information.
Thanks for the tip...
AMP
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hllck wrote: "Have you ever been in the US during October in the past 20 years or so?"
I've lived most of the past 20 years in the US on the east coast within a few miles of a major US city.
I've seen the slogan "Komen for the Cure" on products and occasionally seen posters on streets of the city. I've never been accosted to join a race. I've never made a donation. I was once asked to donate to a runner / walker for the "awareness" nonsense. But I declined. As I pointed out to the solicitor, I was already very much aware of two things about breast cancer: at the moment, early detection is the best treatment to save lives and that has been true for most of the past twenty years or so; and I have yet to meet anyone who didn't know that and needed to be made "aware" of that simple fact.
All to say: however much money Komen spent tryint to make me "aware" of breast cancer was a complete waste. My awareness quotient could not have been any greater than the 100% it has been for years. Which tells me that the money spent on making me "aware" would have been better spent, in my view, on clinical assistance for someone who needed it. I would have much preferred that approach in terms of spending money raised by donations. It certainly did not help anyone in need of clinical services to have the money raised for my "awareness" go into Brinker's retirement account instead.
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I don't disagree. Sorry for the double negative :-* I'm really interested to know what kind of percentage of the donated monies goes to the local komen affiliates to make grants? They seem to be the only people who have come out of this well. Any ideas? And how much autonomy do they have to help real women in real need?
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BY ERIN GLORIA RYAN FEB 1, 2012 5:00 PM70,622
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How the Susan G. Komen Foundation Lost Its Way
Before Susan G. Komen died of breast cancer in 1980, she asked her sister Nancy to promise to work towards finding a cure. Now, more than 30 years later, the organization that bears Suzy's name is still fighting — but instead of fighting for a cure, it seems to be fighting for an agenda. Who was Susan Komen, and what would she think of the foundation's downward spiral? Would she even want her name on it anymore?
Susan G. Komen was diagnosed with cancer at age 33, and succumbed to the illness three years later, at age 36. Susan G. Komen For the Cure was established shortly thereafter in 1982 by her older sister, Nancy Brinker. Since the foundation's inception, over $1.9 billion has been raised for breast cancer research and prevention. All well and good, right?
But in recent years, it seems that the organization has lost its way, becoming more about self-promotion and self-preservation than honoring Nancy's promise to Suzy. For example, the organization has refused to acknowledge the link between the chemical BPA and cancer even in the face of piles of science establishing a link, presumably because several of their large donors just so happen to manufacture products that rely on BPA. In 2010, they spent more than $1 million suing smaller charities that used the phrase "for the Cure" in their names or in their events. The organization said that this was to prevent donor confusion. One fundraising program encouraged socially mobile cancer fighters to battle cancer themselves by mailing in Yoplait tops in order to prompt the company to make a 10-cent donation. Postage at the time was 37 cents; Yoplait prices varied.
Finally, Komen claims to be apolitical, but CEO Nancy Brinker identifies as Republican, donates large amounts of money to Republican political candidates, and served as ambassador to Hungary during the George W. Bush administration. The addition of Georgia politician Karen Handel to the executive suite wasn't an aberration, but rather a continuation of the gradual reddening of the foundation. It's hardly surprising that they exhibited so little courage in the face of right wing confrontation; the organization has grown from a sweet promise to a dying sister into a pink clad right-wing sorority of sanctimonious hypocrisy
AnThis — services designed to prevent and fight breast cancer — is what was promised to Susan G. Komen. Not politicking, defensive marketing, and denial of science to appease donors.
Ironically, Susan G. Komen for the Cure's withdrawal of support for Planned Parenthood may end up doing more damage to the charity's image than imaginable, and more for women's health than a million pink ribbons could. Reaction to the move was overwhelmingly negative— one analysis of web reaction to Komen's withdrawal of funding found that only 25% of people who wrote about the move wrote positively about Komen. And according to Elizabeth Clark, Senior Media Specialist for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, in the last 24 hours, more than 6,000 individual donors have contributed over $400,000 to Planned Parenthood, with donations still rolling in. For some perspective, last year Komen gave Planned Parenthood a $580,000 grant. Of course, none of this makes Komen's withdrawal of support — or their lies about why they did so — any less despicable.
Would the real Susan G. Komen be satisfied that the legacy of her sister's promise? Would she want access to breast cancer treatment to be dependent on a woman's income? Or would she hope that "curing cancer" meant espousing an ideology that sought to heal and help rather than divide and deny? That sounds a lot more "pro-life" to me.
Enjoy the read. As my research broadens more information on how their donors funds are spent will be posted for discussion. Could not have said it better myself.
During my life, I wrote many grants for non profits organizations, set policy, developed funding criteria, developed general budget with accompanying project budgets and never experience the backlash as seen with Komen.
One organization affirmed my suspicions about drug abuse. Addicts can not live with out their drug choice. Komens drug of choice is power, money and recognition. Brinker has spent the donors money on positioning the Komen Foundation politically , not for helping find a cure for breast cancer.
Brinker figured out if you "bend the will" of all her doubters that she could wrap her arms around millions while encouraging volunteers to work tirelessly toward a healthy future filled with the promise of finding a cure.
You have to give a little to make a little-thus the many little affiliates who haven't figured out, yet, they are being used for a bigger purpose-a purpose larger than themselves-a purpose much more important than cancer research-Brinkers fame and fortune. More blinders with pink and some red in them now.
Women who are writing the check for her aspirations, to be a powerful rich women, will still be waiting for a cure when the foundation fails. Brinker, one the other hand, will be on to a political post that will compliment her already large endowment she took from the women who wrote the check that created the Komen Foundation.
As investors, a very high price to pay when it is your life. False hope with a pink ribbon around the lie.
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Excellent article AMP47.
As an aside, I noticed recently that Phil Mickelson no longer sports the pink ribbon that he adopted when his wife and mother were dx.
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Well done, AMP, and with thanks!
Thousands upon thousands of sick women and their friends and their families all duped into providing very substantial retirement cushions and amping up Republican political career options for a very select few.
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AMP .. thanks for posting the article. Very interesting read.
Painterly ... I wonder what's up with Mickelson.
Bren
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"One fundraising program encouraged socially mobile cancer fighters to battle cancer themselves by mailing in Yoplait tops in order to prompt the company to make a 10-cent donation. Postage at the time was 37 cents; Yoplait prices varied."
Think about that. There's an agreement between the corporation which produces the Yoplait product and Komen: if the corporation gets enough lids from purchase of its products, it will make a donation of a dime to Komen. Who got the benefit of that deal? Cancer research or clinical services for women? Nope.
So people -- urged by Komen to support its sponsor and urged by Yoplait to purchase in order to trigger donations from Yoplait to Komen -- buy multiples of the product to collect enough lids to submit. Then mail them in to Yoplait at consumer expernse. For which effort, Yopliat gives a very small percentage of the profit from the sale of the product to Komen.
Yoplait gets an increase in sales by the arrangement, the consumers pay the postage to send the lids to Yoplait and Yoplait turns around and makes a puny donation out of the profits of the sales to Komen.
The top brass at Komen get a "Well done!" from Yoplait for helping Yoplait increase their gross revenue from sales and Yoplait wants that relationship to continue. Yoplait ought to pay sales commissions to Komen executives for sales boost.
Komen gets almost nothing from the deal in terms of increased donations: a dime here and there from Yoplait to Komen probably doesn't even cover the cost of the electic bill or the phone calls and time for the top brass at Komen to negotiate the deal with Yoplait and keep it going.
And the consumers, i.e., the people who already have breast cancer and hope to do "a good deed," pay the bills for the handwashing between Komen and Yoplait.
The deal is so onesided that Yoplait will not even risk providing postage paid envelopes for people to use to submit the lids! Such generosity never before seen in the annals of philanthropic history.
There are a lot of very smart people on this Board. Because one thing can be said about breast cancer: it's completely disinterested in anything like class, economic level, educational level, politics, religious affiliations, age, brown hair or blond hair and so forth. So there is someone very smart here who can tell me just how to set up an arrangement like the ones Komen sets up with corporate partners so I can make some money.
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From Wikipedia:
Cause marketing or cause-related marketing refers to a type of marketing involving the cooperative efforts of a "for profit" business and a non-profit organization for mutual benefit. The term is sometimes used more broadly and generally to refer to any type of marketing effort for social and other charitable causes, including in-house marketing efforts by non-profit organizations. Cause marketing differs from corporate giving (philanthropy) as the latter generally involves a specific donation that is tax deductible, while cause marketing is a marketing relationship not necessarily based on a donation.
I think the key here is that cause-related marketing should be mutually beneficial to both parties. Unfortunately, there are too many examples (Yoplait being one) where the corporation derives the much greater benefit, while the non-profit/charity derives very little, and the consumer is, essentially, hoodwinked. IMHO, of course.....
ETA: Cause-related marketing can be a very useful tool for a relatively young and unknown non-profit, in that the non-profit benefits from the marketing assistance of the manufacturer in getting its name out in public. An organization as widely known, and with such a lengthy history as Komen, certainly doesn't need Yoplait or its ilk, for marketing purposes.
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The Yoplait gig has bothered me for years, even before my diagnosis. To require the consumer to put more money towards (postage) sending in lids is just rediculous. Even allowing consumers to enter lid codes online would be better (do they do that?), then requiring them to be mailed. However, even better would just for Yoplait to donate a set amount to Komen and drop the whole lid thing.
I actually wrote Yoplait after I found this on Komen's website:
"New in 2011, through the Share the Pink promotion, specially marked 4-packs of Yoplait Original and Yoplait Light (strawberry and peach flavors) will benefit Komen. For each lid mailed in from April 1, 2011 - August 31, 2011, Yoplait will donate 50 cents up to $50,000. Specially marked packages will be available for purchase at Walmart nationwide."
It really bothered me that they caped the donation at $50,000. So if they received more lids then the cap, essentially consumers were sending lids to Yoplait believing they were supporting Komen, when in reality they were wasting their time, and Yoplait was purely just padding their pockets, profiting off the "pink ribbon".
Yoplait wrote me back stating that "we have not historically had participation exceed that maximum donation amount", which tells me consumers probably are not taking the time to send in the lids. I didn't/don't. They probably buy the product with good intentions, but maybe don't bother with the whole lid thing.
They also pointed out that "As recently as 2011, we made a direct donation of $2 million to Susan G. Komen for the Cure as part of our partnership on the PinkTogether website - without requiring any action on the part of consumers." So apparently they are giving money to Komen with no requirement on the part of consumers. For some reason, this still didn't make me feel any better about the whole Yoplait thing. Maybe it's my problem.
I tend to avoid pink ribbon items. For some reason, they make me feel sick. I don't know if it is the whole reminder of what I went through, or the belief I have that coorporations are profiting off the whole pink ribbon thing.
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I avoid pink ribbon stuff too. Some of the products that are pink-washed are just ridiculous. Yoplait is taking the heat but it's not one of the worst. According to both the Komen and Yoplait websites, over 13 years Yoplait have donated $30 million dollars to Komen. They are one of only a handful of companies who commit to a minimum contribution of $1million dollars per year. As for the donation being only $0.10 per lid, considering the purchase price of the product (somewhere between $0.50 to $1), that $0.10 is probably in the range of 30% - 50% of the total profit per package.
My main problem with the Yoplait campaign is that they support Komen. Of course when they started this 13 years ago that probably seemed like a good idea. Today, not so much.
If we are looking for illogical 'pink partners', how about Purina Cat Chow? Or Crayola? Or Oreck vacuum cleaners? They commit a whopping $100,000 per year, and give $25 to Komen for a product that sells for $500. That's only 5% of the revenue and probably less than 20% of the profit that Oreck make on the sale of every unit.
It's not so much that I want to defend Yoplait however because of what appears to be a measly $0.10 contribution, they often get the heat whereas there are a lot of other companies who are much more guilty in terms of trying to take advantage of "breast cancer pink" while contributing much less money (as a percent of revenue, as percent of profit, or in total dollars) to Komen (or any other breast cancer organization).
By the way, the reason that most companies put a "cap" on the amount that they contribute is because they have to do that to manage their cost. Often that's necessary to get internal approval for the program. It's a business management thing - you need to have a pretty precise estimate of your costs before you can do anything in the way of promotion. Usually the cap will be set aggressively/optimistically. In other words, if you make 1 million of the product and consumers have to submit a box top and you expect 25% to submit the boxtop, you build the cap assuming a much higher submission rate. Or if you manufacture 50,000 products and the sale of the product automatically triggers the contribution, then the cap assumes the sale of all 50,000 products. In many cases, the actual contribution is based on the cap amount, not on the number of box tops submitted or products sold.
I think that the way that Komen have pink-washed everything and gone after any possible contributor, regardless of the nebulous connection to women or breast cancer, is plain silly. I just wish that the discussions here would focus on the real problems not the imagined or lesser ones. Take a look at Komen's list of partners: http://ww5.komen.org/CorporatePartners.aspx
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It's the connection to the purchase that irritates me.
If the corporation wants to make a donation to Komen or anything else, just make the donation.
Don't make the gift contingent upon having a bunch of sick people or the family members of sick people go buy things!
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Pompeed, I know what you are saying but business is business. If there isn't some opportunity to increase sales or at least generate some good will, then the money won't be given. But I doubt that those companies are expecting that sick people or the family members of sick people will be the ones buying the products. They are appealing to the general public, or more specifically, to their target consumers. If you are going to purchase anyway and you have a choice between Product A and Product B, and if the purchase of Product A will result in a donation "to a good cause", then all other things being equal, more people may be inclined to pick product A. And if all other things aren't equal but if you know or know of someone who's had breast cancer, maybe the donation will be enough to tip the scales in favor of Product A. It's that simple.
The way I see it, if there are going to be symbiotic relationships between companies/products and breast cancer, at least let's have companies/products that are used by women or are relevant to women.
Oh... that would include vacuum cleaners, right? And toilet paper.... And cat food.
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I understand the "business is business" point of view.
But it would be a whole lot more honest and transparent, in my opinion, if the corporations just made whatever donation they wish. Or don't wish.
Rather than dressing up their goods in pretty pink petticoats (for myself, I detest pink anything and don't own anything pink and never would) as a way to make people who make that purchase believe that something really good and important will come from it. More likely than not: a couple of pennies per purchase to the charity and a much larger chunk of change to the seller.
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Komen - a promise for the cure. An organization that has honed the strategies
of marketing: identify, satisfy and keep customers to a searing double edged
blade.Komen identify its customer base from the promise of a dying women-please keep the promise and find a cure for cancer. They satisfied their customer by supplying a promise to find a cure, fund research projects, developed other products, the walk, run, swim, shoot, dance, for the cure, coupled with worldwide outreach.
Breast cancer survivors responded overwhelming. Money poured in at the rate of 400 million dollars in 2010. Komen is launched into the prestige's world of non-profit organizations and "big league" for-profit corporations.
Besides the promise Komen made to all us, Komen has made several promises to corporate players. Yoplait, a very formidable corporate player was also given a promise coupled with a guarantee of money and a monopoly on the market.
Komen promised Yoplait they can display Komens logo and we (Komen) promise not to let any other yogurt company benefit from the use of our logo. That is, if you promise to give us 1 plus million dollars annually and don't forget the ten cents for each Yoplait lid. By promising Yoplait exclusive access to Komens logo, Komen has effectively created a temporary monopoly for both Yoplait and Komen. Microsoft tried that and ended up in court with a substantial fine.
But, you have to askwhere the value is? Well, we feel better. Especially when more people give money-there should be more money forlife saving research. The breast cancer community, at large, feels stronger when two corporations join in the fight against breast cancer. We feel embolden and donate more money. Then, Komen cuts the amount to research, freeing up much needed cash for administration cost, Yoplait skips to the bank with their increased profits, and we feel bewildered and betrayed. Welcome to the world of corporate business called the "bottom line".
Komen is not about finding a cure it is about getting into bed with who ever will give her money to support her life style. Komen has moved from "stand by me" to prostitution.Yoplait is a prime
example. The target market has shifted from us to Brinker's political associations, her political aspiration and maintaining her life style, funded by $427,000 annual salary. How does all of this activity benefit breast cancer research? It doesn't.Something tells me that developing a perfume over donating to breast cancer research is a very bad business decision and just wrong. With very little of the $400 million collected going to breast cancer research, between10-15%, how does she expect to find a cure? What happen to our promise? We pay you money and you don't even have to get in bed with us - just keep your promise: find a cure.
Brinker was politically shamed into funding Planned Parenthood. Recently, she has cut the breast cancer research money in half, especially in the area of stem cell research due to conservative political pressure. She expands her message to underdeveloped countries that do not have the infrastructure to disseminate the information. Meeting with foreign heads of state, countries that considers women chattel, is a waste of money (donated money). Vying for an ambassadorship using funds raised by breast cancer survivors is short of criminal. In other words welcome to the world of corporate business and political influence.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/23/susan-g-komen-planned-parenthood_n_1297483.html
Komen hires consulting firm to try to repair image. I'm not trying to get into politics here, but I find it ironic they hired a consulting firm created by former Democratic polsters.
Copied from the article:
"After Susan G. Komen for the Cure's controversial decision several weeks ago to cut funding to Planned Parenthood, and the subsequent reversal of that decision, the cancer charity has hired a consulting firm that specializes in messaging strategy to essentially ask its donors: Do we still owe you an apology?
Penn Schoen Berland (PSB), which was founded by former Democratic pollsters Mark Penn and Doug Schoen, circulated a survey among Komen's supporters last week to assess the damage caused by the public backlash against the charity in early February. "
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I read thru the questionaire the Huffington Post printed. What ever happened to common sense? Komen made a HUGE mistake and their attempts to handle the mistep is laughable. Hey Komen, how about spending 90% "for the cure"?
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Sewingnut ... I agree with you. It's such a joke. The solution is right in front of them, as it's Komen for the CURE. Focus on the CURE if you want to repair your reputation.
Bren
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Hint to Komen ... spending donor money to find out what you should say and who we would believe mouthing a new BS 'apology' is really just ... stupid.
I'm sure they are not happy that the details of their latest attempt at a con job have gone public.
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Ayyaaahhhhhh...cries ogf agony -Komen turns to the team that messed up Hillary Clinton's campaign SO BADLY...aaahhyeahhhsssss@%#$!^#$!%#$!...no words for this...would like to laugh, but I HATE, HATE, HATE how cause-related marketing is making corporations MONEY on the suffering of women with breast cancer - HATE PINK - and even more torn, cuz I think Komen gives more to Scientific Research ( $70,000,000. a year!!!!!) than any other organization - so far.
MY ANSWER to Komen - STOP spending money on consultants - INCREASE THE PERCENTAGE OF $$$$$$ given to Scientific Research - MORE MONEY TO RESEARCH TO FIND CAUSES, treatments, and some day a cure for this hideous disease...
Wish I could laugh at this survey, but it hurts so much, just want to cry.
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Well, one gigantic screw up and complete waste of donor funds deserves another gigantic screw up and complete waste of donor funds.
I know nothing about marketing or image making or any of that stuff. I do know, however, that when there is a major public relations screw up, the worst thing to do about it is lie and then cover it up. Which was the first thing Komen execs did. The lie is bad enough but the cover up to protect the lie is always worse.
And the second worst thing to do about a mess it is pay some image makers to fix the mess. Which is now the second thing Komen execs have done: spend donor funds to find out how to remake the image instead of just getting back to what those donor dollars were given for in the first instance.
I really cannot believe that with all of those high powered salaries on the administrative side that there isn't intelligent in-house PR capacity to address the mess.
Must be in the revision for all business school marketing texts and classes: how to wreck your brand in less than a week's time by making war on it plus optimal methods for effectively killing off whatever was merely wounded in the war.
PS: I just read through the questions. Anyone know how to respond? I'd love to give them a piece of my mind.
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Pompeed .. maybe you can contact the consulting firm and tell them you'd like to fill out the questionnaire. I'd love to fill one out too!
Bren
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Arni Flecher was approached by Brinker to help with damage control. He referred her to PBN to handled the backlash.
Komens donor population is to large to study it in its entirety. I am sure, a sample set will be selected from the population that donates to Komen: women who perform the walks, runs, swims, cake bakes, ets. and their corporate partners.
Researcher will carefully define the population including the members(sample set) to be included.
Most of the questions are closed. In other words, the researchers are controlling the out come and leave the option of other with why do you say that out of selection options. This is to control the result. Closed questioning allow the researcher to massage the results to achieve a certain statistic.
Further, Komen discusses, in the body of the survey, why they do not support stem cells. Their reason being - because there is no relationships to stem cells and breast cancer.
I have read at least 5 articles that tie stem cells to awakening cells in our bone marrow. Studies show that recurrence is directly related to stem cells that do what they are programmed to do: make new cells whether cancerous or normal.
Using the results of the survey, the researchers will try to draw a conclusion that is Representative of the larger population. A control group with closed questions is one of the best ways to guarantee successful results.
Those results will be plaster on the front page of every news organization. My feeling is the survey will be positive with directions on how Komen can start gluing the Pink ribbon back together and to begin licking their wounds.
Today, when a woman wears a pink shirt, pink ribbon, a hat, blinder with pink bling bling, signs up for a walk, run,swim, etc, they are going to be perceived as Republican conservative instead of just being for breast cancer research. Ear marking Komen as a political conservative with aspirations larger than just breast cancer research which is really not being done.
In all the discussion about Komen, why is no one asking the question: Why do you only spend 10-15% of the $400 million on cancer research?
A question that I am going to pose to many news agencies, organizations and their 169 corporate donors and local women. The questions, for me, is suspiciously absent from the survey.
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AMP
that's EXACTLY the quesiton I hope the public keeps asking. Thank you for working to bring it to public attention. While the total amount, $70,000,000. is huge, it is not that big RELATIVE to the total budget - could be so much more. Let's hope it does become much larger.
Stem cells - "dog whistle" - same as "PP" was in the memos that became public. Sad, sad, sad.
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I think thats a great idea hillck, no matter how mad we are at komen, there is no denying that their budget is massive
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Initially, any request from Komen exec's to reveal how and why they spend their money, will be like launching a tennis ball into a brick wall. The ball will bounce back in a different trajectory and not one you expect.
Although, grass roots movements can be very powerful. A request to Komen needs to be more than just a request with signatures. A persons position needs to be supported by evidence as to why they should spend more on cancer research and not on other items listed within their financial statements: Komen is for the cure - not the creative pamphlet design.
Komens duplicity of information should be one area to look. In addition to money being wasted on services provided by many other agency's, a thorough review of the financial statement show where the money is being spent. Two sources that have a wealth of information in support your request.
Many very bright and articulate woman are on the site. Hopefully, then can be helpful in helping a grass roots movement to look in the right areas.
Personally, I will be approaching directly, using some political avenues, media and every resource of the Internet.
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Komen at the national level is big and entrenched and has developed a 'business model' operation that is profitable for them. They have jumped the shark from charity to business IMO.
I hate to be a cynic but I don't think there is a snowball's chance in h*ll that they are going to change anything other than 'window dressing' no matter what we say.
I am sorry for those at the local affiliates though as it at least seems that they haven't forgotten what they are there for.
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Do Only Some Lives Matter? - Susan G. Komen Pulls Funding from Planned Parenthood - Op-Ed
By: Dr. Susan LoveThu, 2012-02-02 16:34
The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation has announced it will no longer give grants to provide breast exams and mammograms through Planned Parenthood affiliates. Komen states that this has nothing to do with the "Right to Life" but rather the fact that Planned Parenthood is being investigated. According to the New York Times the investigation is by a conservative Republican who was urged to act by anti-abortion groups. This is sad. Investigation does not mean guilt. What happened to innocent until proven guilty?
Pro-choice should be just that. The woman gets to choose-to choose where the money she sweated through runs and walks to raise should be spent! Pro-life should mean not just the lives of babies, but also the lives of women! This is not an either or situation.
Patrick Hurd is the CEO of Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Virginia, a recipient of a 2010 grant from Komen. He is also the husband of a breast cancer survivor who is the veteran of several Komen fundraising races. As he told the Associated Press: "Cancer doesn't care if you're pro-choice, anti-choice, progressive, conservative, victims of cancer could care less about people's politics."
Rather than putting politics into the breast cancer movement, lets rise above the political divisions and work together. Let's redirect all the money that will be spent on investigating Planned Parenthood into funding studies looking to find the cause and prevent the disease once and for all. Let's redirect our anger to making mammograms unnecessary because we know how to prevent the disease. To learn more about our work and become a supporter, click here.
The Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and is not affiliated in any way with Susan G. Komen for the Cure. To learn more about our work, visit Follow SheWired on Facebook
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