Komen fundraiser calls for Brinker’s resignation

Think before you Pink!
Big companies and Breast Cancer Awareness organizations are reaping lots of money but often don't have much to show for it.
Examples:
- 3M spent $500K in marketing their Pink-Post-It notes only to give $300K to Komen.
- Cosmetic companies often use parabens (linked to breast cancer) in their products but have lucrative tie-ins with Komen to put pink ribbons on their products.
- Companies often cap their donations to Komen, but this isn't known to consumers who buy the companies' products with the intent that a portion of their purchase goes towards breast cancer awareness.

Finally, do we need to keep spending on awareness? Shouldn't we start spending on prevention, research, and treatment? These days "awareness" sounds a lot more like "marketing" to me...

I just checked, Komen allocated 15% of donations for cancer research in 2011. Not exactly "racing" for the cure, is it? I also read that they spend enormous amounts of money suing local charities for using the words 'race' and "cure," sometimes putting them out of business. They're not the good guys.

Well, those girls sure opened up a hornets' nest! They can't make it go away, either. Of course their Planned Parenthood move was political! How could it not be? Because of all that, they've exposed the probability that the Komen organization is spending money on something besides looking for a cancer cure. Sorry, girls! That's naughty! It's going to cost you donors, and it probably should.

More over, I think she needs to explain her 400,000$ plus salary. I don't believe for a second that hard working Americans would give a dime to a charity that pays anyone in its ranks that much money. She has made millions off of her sisters death. It is just grotesque.

Nothing is going to save this brand. Between the PP disaster and all the other stuff that come out since, no one will trust them with their donations. I'm thankful for the PP disaster because they have been running a scam on us for a long time. Their foot soldiers care too much about a cure to ever trust them again.

i've heard for YEARS that komen threatens and overtakes other start-up foundations to keep the competition away. ever since i started hearing stories about how they operate many years ago, i decided my donation dollars can go to a lot of other organizations, including ones that cover the cancers my family has died from. sometimes it's just personal.

Throw Brinker out !!! She makes how much a year, $500,000.00 a year. That's how she can afford all the plastic surgery.

funny, this is a CANCER foundation. why are politics getting involved?

These organizations start out with wonderful intentions, but when the money gets huge the greed, power, and politics show their ugly heads.

The ole sneaky snake charity foundations. The best charity is hand to mouth.That way,you know where it went!

Our company stopped giving the moment that we found out that Brinker's annual salary was 400k. That is just plain wrong within an organization like this.

Kudos for Eve Ellis for stating the truth.

Feel sorry for that big fundraiser, Eve Ellis. She raised over $250,000 in 6 years for Komen...

I wonder how she feels, knowing that Brinker (Komen CEO) pays herself $470,000/year?

Like I said regarding an earlier story on all this, if people really want to work toward a cure for this or any other disease, DO NOT donate to these large foundations!!! How much of what you donate do you think really goes toward research? Foundations have staff to pay, advertising to buy, events to plan and carry through on and, in this case, pink ribbons and products with pink ribbons on them to produce. Yes, this does raise awareness but it does little, if any, to actually work toward a cure. I've been aware of breast cancer for a long, long time and my awareness didn't come from a pink ribbon or a foundation. It came from my family, my friends and my doctor, NOT from Komen! If you really want to donate to find a cure, donate directly to research labs, hospitals and individuals who are actually trying to do something to find a cure, not spending their time holding board meetings, planning events, shelling out of advertising and playing politics!

just defund Komen and start a new foundation which better reflects your values...

I bet if susan was still alive her sister would have spent more on research and less on political crap and pink fluff. There is no urgency in her charity to find a cure,you know the original purpose

while i think Ellis probably sympathizes with the PP side of the debate, i think her larger point is valid. While i don't necessarily think Komen's original aim in giving $$$ to PP was to voice support for abortions, it's decision to defund PP was clearly a political move to voice condemnation of the practice. And whatever side of the debate you are on, I do think that we all can agree (can we?) that a group whose mission is to raise funds for cancer research, should not be weighing in on a political question not associated with its stated mission and reason for being. While I am firmly on the pro-Choice side of the debate, I think it would also be inappropriate for Komen to give $$ specifically as a way of supporting abortions. Whatever side of the debate you are on, I think it should be pretty clear that it is completely inappropriate for a charity such as Komen to use its clout and resources to weigh in on a political issue outside of its sphere (and I know there are some who claim that abortions lead to higher incidents of breast cancer, but there is not agreement in the field whether the link is substantial -- mostly because those running the studies tend to favor one side or the other and try to have their results comport to their views... so in this instance, even the justification of abortions cause cancer would strike as blatantly political). Komen should stick to cancer, and leave abortion and politics to the politicians. although i think as of now the group is broken. It has lost the respect and trust of people on both sides of the issue, and the scandal has brought to light certain other unsavory practices that the charity engages in (like, suing other, often small and local non-profits, who use pink or the word "cure" in their title). I think that the org really does need to clean house, otherwise Komen in kaput

They're more a business than a charity. They're primarily focused on staff, salaries, and bonuses. All they need is a palatial headquarters in Washington and they can rival the Red Cross.

Here I thought Susan Komen foundation was looking for a cure for breast cancer. Something I entirely support. Why not just stick to what you state you are doing and stay out of other arenas. jmho

Interesting, it seems Komen has found a way to alienate both side of the abortion debate. #$%$ of the left by pulling their support of Planned Parenthood, and in the process revealed that they WERE supporting PP thereby #$%$ off the right. I LOVE IT!