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Komen Caved
Their press release:
Statement from Susan G. Komen Board of Directors and Founder and CEO Nancy G. BrinkerWe want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women?s lives.
The events of this week have been deeply unsettling for our supporters, partners and friends and all of us at Susan G. Komen. We have been distressed at the presumption that the changes made to our funding criteria were done for political reasons or to specifically penalize Planned Parenthood. They were not.
Our original desire was to fulfill our fiduciary duty to our donors by not funding grant applications made by organizations under investigation. We will amend the criteria to make clear that disqualifying investigations must be criminal and conclusive in nature and not political. That is what is right and fair.
Our only goal for our granting process is to support women and families in the fight against breast cancer. Amending our criteria will ensure that politics has no place in our grant process. We will continue to fund existing grants, including those of Planned Parenthood, and preserve their eligibility to apply for future grants, while maintaining the ability of our affiliates to make funding decisions that meet the needs of their communities.
It is our hope and we believe it is time for everyone involved to pause, slow down and reflect on how grants can most effectively and directly be administered without controversies that hurt the cause of women. We urge everyone who has participated in this conversation across the country over the last few days to help us move past this issue. We do not want our mission marred or affected by politics ? anyone?s politics.
Starting this afternoon, we will have calls with our network and key supporters to refocus our attention on our mission and get back to doing our work. We ask for the public?s understanding and patience as we gather our Komen affiliates from around the country to determine how to move forward in the best interests of the women and people we serve.
We extend our deepest thanks for the outpouring of support we have received from so many in the past few days and we sincerely hope that these changes will be welcomed by those who have expressed their concern.
I find the bolded statement to be especially hypocritical. If you didn't want your mission marred by politics, you should have thought about that before you made such a powerful, politically motivated decision.
Re: Komen Caved
I wonder where that leaves this?
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/02/komen-foundation-gave-75-million-grant-penn-state
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What a wonderful half-apology.
I hope the SGK staff who resigned over this start their own foundation. I would like to see an alternative organization take over as the leading place to donate money in the name of curing breast cancer.
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Is it really a reversal? Isn't the PP investigation about failure to report sex trafficking? Is that not criminal?
I'd be happier if they had some findings of guilt attached. Is that what "conclusive" means?
And fire Handel.
Considering this whole situation made a lot of people start investigating SGK's use of funds, I doubt this "we're sorry you misunderstood what we were doing" statement will make a lot of difference. Many people are suprised/enlighted/whatever the right word is by the fact that very little of the funds raised go to research/treatment.
This is exactly what I was thinking. The damage has most certainly been done. I'm glad that a lot of people are starting to do their research and deciding to place their money elsewhere that lines up more with what they were hoping it would go to. I can't stand SGK.
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