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Will Leadership Shake-Up Cure The Susan G. Komen Foundation?
There are going to be several changes at the top at the Susan G. Komen Foundation with the hope that these changes will help deal with a p.r. disaster that occurred last January. The president’s resignation will take effect next month. Two of the Foundation’s board directors are also resigning and Founder/CEO Nancy Brinker will be playing a new role. The question is will it be enough to re-establish the trust that Americans once had for the Susan G. Komen Foundation?
After hiring anti-choice Republican pro voter purge, anti-choice activist, Karen Handel, as their vice-president for public affairs; the Susan G. Komen Foundation entered a downward spiral from which it is still struggling to recover. It began with the Foundation’s decision to revoke its funding for breast cancer screenings provided by Planned Parenthood in January this year. At the time, sources within the Foundation told reporters the decision was made of Karen Handel, as Palm Beach Daily News, reported at the time:
In a blog posted Thursday, Jeffrey Goldberg, national correspondent for The Atlantic said sources in or formerly part of Komen’s management told him the funding policy was changed because of Karen Handel, who became Komen’s senior vice president for public policy in April. Handel is anti-abortion and wrote during an unsuccessful bid for Georgia governorship in 2010 that since she is “pro-life, I do not support the mission of Planned Parenthood,” Goldberg writes.
Komen’s managing director of community health programs, Mollie Williams, resigned in protest immediately after the board made the fateful decision.
While Handel’s conservative friends were thrilled with the decision, most of America shared Mollie Williams’ sentiments. So much so that within days of that disastrous decision becoming public, Karen Handel resigned from the Foundation. To this day, the Susan B. Komen Foundation is dealing with the fall-out.
The latest attempt involves a significant leadership shakeup, as NBC reports:
The president, Liz Thompson announced her plans to leave the foundation next month.
In a statement Thompson said:
“That legacy will continue,” Thompson said. “It has been a privilege and an honor to serve in this role.”
Brenda Lauderback and Linda Law, both members of the board of directors are also leaving.
Last, but hardly least, founder and CEO Nancy Brinker will shift to a new role as Manager of the Komen Board executive committee where, according to the statement, she will focus on “revenue creation, strategy and global growth”
Trust is very fragile. It takes a while to gain it. Once acquired it can be easily lost and regaining it is, to put it mildly, challenging. For much of its history, the Susan G. Komen Foundation was synonymous with providing help and hope to all women with breast cancer. The decision to cut funding to Planned Parenthood amounted to turning the Foundation’s back on many American women. It may be awhile before Americans are assured that Susan G. Komen’s mission is as inclusive as it once was.
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Cindy Sullivan
Aug. 9th, 2012 at 4:17 pm
Komen Refused Funding for Breast Cancer Prevention Vaccine
Nancy’s Twitter states that she promised her sister to put an end to breast cancer and she raised millions upon millions of dollars to do it. Yet the Komen foundation refused funding for the world’s first preventive breast cancer vaccine that could do just that; put an end to breast cancer!
The Pink Vaccine was developed by Dr. Vincent Tuohy of the Cleveland Clinic and is 100% effective in preventing breast cancer in mice. Further, it reduced tumor size in mice that already had breast cancer. It’s our biggest hope yet and it’s sitting on a shelf at the Cleveland Clinic awaiting a mere $6 Million in funding to get it to clinical trials in humans.
One in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime yet Komen refused funding three times for our best hope at preventing it. My tax deductible contributions are going directly to the Cleveland Clinic.
Prevention is the Cure!
More Here: www.ThePinkVaccine.com
Deborah Shepherd
Aug. 9th, 2012 at 4:24 pm
This is a story of bad decisions by several people. The upshoot is sadly the people making the decisions were totally misreading American women. I applaud all women who stood up for our sisters and who supported Planned Parenthood..This repulsive women, Ms. Handel should be ashamed of herself and Ms. Brinker has responsibility as well. The far right may have cheered the decision to pull funds from PP, but the resulting fall out shows the conservative/far right has no clue as to where the majority stand in this country. Fund Planned Parenthood, we know the money is going for a great cause, not so sure of Komen Foundation any longer.
Reynardine
Aug. 9th, 2012 at 5:00 pm
I know I have quit buying yogurt with pink ribbons on it or anything else of that kind. Three enemies of the female sex are misogynist gynecology, misogynist psychotherapy, and of late, the Susan G. Komen foundation.
Mary Beth Elderton
Aug. 9th, 2012 at 6:25 pm
Komen has broken its trust and revealed itself for what it is–a hard right-wing money-making organization with little concern for actually helping women. I believe the right-winger’s objection to Planned Parenthood has less to do with the fact that a tiny percentage of patients are referred to outside doctors for certain treatment and more to do with trying to find a way to get the money that might go to PP. This management shuffle is nothing more than an attempt to polish their “brand.” I hope that some of my favorite companies will think twice before putting that pink ribbon on their products, because I will no longer buy them.
Thomas Johnson
Aug. 9th, 2012 at 7:31 pm
It would be telling to see how much the top people of komen are paid each year and what percentage of their monetary intake actually goes to care and research. How much you want to bet that they are WELL paid and their actual giving is low.
Deyndra
Aug. 9th, 2012 at 8:21 pm
www.reuters.com/article/2...
This article is from February, but should answer your questions about where Komen’s money goes. Part of the reason I don’t buy all that pink stuff is because so much of Komen’s money goes to “education” or making more pink crap to sell to us. If I donated, I’d like the majority of my donation to actually go to research.
Thomas Johnson
Aug. 9th, 2012 at 9:14 pm
Yea, sounds a lot like sarahpac where a hefty percentage of the money goes to “postage.”
Dean
Aug. 9th, 2012 at 7:44 pm
I think one of the more important things to come out of this is that some 83% of Komen money raised goes for overhead. They tried to screw planned parenthood and Americans saw through it. So long Komen, Planned Parenthood will get my future donations.
Shiva (Moderator)
Aug. 9th, 2012 at 8:27 pm
This is a RWNJ organization. I dont think it will change. They hired Handel for a purpose and it wasnt to shuck peanuts
Maple
Aug. 9th, 2012 at 9:39 pm
The best thing to come out of the Komen scandal was the information about how LITTLE is the amount going towards research or, if you will, the “cure”. I belong to an international network of breast cancer patients, and almost to a person, they condemned Komen for misleading donors, volunteers and race participants.
The second best thing was the positive attention paid, and generous donations given, to Planned Parenthood. Komen’s PR nightmare became PP’s lovely dream!
But until Komen begins to live up to its original mission, a change in leadership is mere PR whitewashing.
Marilyn
Aug. 10th, 2012 at 7:00 am
Is Hadassah Lieberman still their “Global Ambassador” at $100,000 a year? I stopped giving in 2009 when that was made public. Hadassah has too many ties to the insurance industry and it was the same year that her husband, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, opposed the public option in the president’s health-care proposal, almost single-handedly killing the provision.
Edith Stubbs
Aug. 10th, 2012 at 11:29 am
I’ve supported Susan
Komen since its earliest days in Peoria, IL, but I’m done. Brinker knew what/who Karen Handel is when she was hired, & hired her regardless. Planned Parenthood is established, well-known, & reliable: no more of my $ to SK, more to PP.