Meanwhile, how are things going at Susan G. Komen?

[$tevie]

Not so great, it would appear.

Two top executives at Susan G. Komen for the Cure have announced their resignation, amid reports that the breast cancer charity is struggling to raise money and repair its reputation after its decision to defund Planned Parenthood and subsequent reversal.
Katrina McGhee, Komen's executive vice president and chief marketing officer, privately announced several weeks ago that she will be stepping down on May 4, and Dara Richardson-Heron, CEO of Komen's New York City affiliate, announced her resignation on Tuesday. Both cited "personal" reasons and declined to elaborate.
Komen founder Nancy Brinker informed the staff about McGhee's resignation in an internal email, sent Feb. 28 and obtained by The Huffington Post.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/20...68213.html

The chief executive officer of Susan G. Komen’s powerhouse New York City affiliate resigned today, a possible indication of further fallout from the foundation’s recent decision to de-fund—and then re-fund—Planned Parenthood. That scandal, which unfolded last month, triggered a backlash from critics and heavy scrutiny of the cancer-fighting foundation.
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Richardson-Heron wasn’t immediately available for comment. Her resignation comes amid the recent news that the New York City affiliate is postponing two spring fundraising events—an awards gala and a teen-focused event called Tickled Pink—due to concerns about efforts to raise funds in the near term, according to the group’s director of communications, Vern T. Calhoun. A free breakfast for “grantees, supporters, and volunteers” is planned instead, according to a statement from the affiliate.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/20...signs.html

A drop in donations to its biggest fundraiser of the year is creating a crisis for Susan G. Komen for the Cure's Southern Arizona chapter, its executive director said this week.
With the event less than two weeks away, registration this week totaled 4,200, far less than the event's target of 11,000.
The event has a fundraising goal of $700,000 and so far has pulled in $200,000, said Jaimie Leopold, executive director of Komen Southern Arizona, which gives grants to local groups for breast cancer treatment, awareness, research and prevention. Last year's race raised $660,000. The race is the organization's biggest fundraiser of the year.

http://azstarnet.com/news/local/komen-ra...z1pgx3Xrop

[Grace62]

I wonder if it would help if Nancy Brinker stepped down, and let someone else start fresh with this organization.
Hard to say.

[Dennis S]

Grace62 wrote:
I wonder if it would help if Nancy Brinker stepped down, and let someone else start fresh with this organization.
Hard to say.

And give up her $5 million salary?

[Lux Interior]

The difficult thing about giving to charity is that the CEOs (and other execs) of these BIG ones take a nice cut. But you figure that they are still getting money/services to people who need it, so you give anyway.

Once they lose that thin veneer of goodwill, they're screwed. And in Komen's case, I think deservedly so.

[$tevie]

These charities that get so big become as much corporations as they are charities, probably MORE corporate than charitable. The fact that Komen spent so much of their time tracking down people who used the term "race for" in their events, and trying to force them to stop doing so, proves to me that they had become far more concerned about the organization itself than about women who had breast cancer.

And since I do not buy into the idea that ANYONE is worth that kind of a salary, not even the CEO of the greatest company on earth should there be such a thing, I definitely don't think Brinker should make that kind of money.