Originally Posted by
mdilthey
People often quote CEO salaries as reasons to hate the Susan G. Komen foundation. It became a bit of a viral fad to hate them for these apparently "secret" injustices within the organization, like they're a for-profit wolf in sheep's clothing.
Not true.
A little research goes a long way. The current CEO of the Susan G. Komen foundation, Nancy Brinker, makes about $500,000 a year. This organization is a multi-million dolalr machine with thousands of employees and a nationwide presence. In order to keep leadership of the caliber necessary to run what is essentially a company on the same approximate scale of Apple or Nike, you basically need to pay that much. Otherwise you lose leadership to the for-profit sector.
The "20% of funds go to cancer research" is also spin. Here's a chart:
In actuality, only 11.3% goes to administrative costs, including the CEO's salary. 88% of funding goes towards a wide scope of activites that include research, but the foundation is also dedicated to providing services for cancer patients, outreach and support groups, education for the public to raise awareness and thus, donations, and for the actual events that do so much good for so many people.
Why the public decided to sink teeth into a foundation that is a net positive in the world, I have no idea. The shock factor of "Charity" and "$500,000 salary" sells newspapers.
Don't believe everything you read.
You did fail to mention the fact they promote products that cause cancer or help make it worse and much of the research they have funded has already been done by others and has resulted in nothing. In 32 years of this scam they have not come up with a cure, they have not even said what the root cause of their cancer is and have virtually ignored women with stage 4 amongst other things. They of course haven't said what the root causes are because that would piss off the Ford Motor Company, Yoplait, Caterpillar, American Airlines, KFC, General Mills (who opposed labeling GMOs) and Baker Hughes (they make pink drillbits for fracking) just to name a few. Plus most of those companies who are "donating" are donating basically what amounts to pennies for them while garnering so much more in free advertising and publicity. Some companies have put a cap on their donations so if they sell x amount of BPA plastic water bottles more than the cap, all of that money is going back to the company that makes it and not even to Komen or Avon or whichever charity.
I don't see anything positive about an organization claiming to want to end cancer, giving people cancer and funding looping research that hasn't really helped anyone (and is mostly directed towards light skinned people) . I also don't see the positives about taking a $600,000+ salary working for a company that is netting millions upon millions while there are people in the world who have breast cancer who cannot afford doctor bills and other living expenses and none of them are getting help! I am not saying someone cannot live comfortably but living as a millionare is sick and disgusting. Plus if you are promoting products even some you have made that go against your organization it just makes it so much worse. Not only are you making big profits but you are harming people you claim to want to help.
The goal is not to emulate the corporations because we have seen how bad they are but to actually go out and help people.
Also lets not forget when they withdrew funding for mammograms at Planned Parenthood, which is something they are big on, even though science has shown it causes more false positives. All of that early detection crap is causing women to fear they have it when they don't and get more unnecessary treatment which is taking money and resources from those who actually do have it. But if your thing is doing that you shouldn't withdraw funding for it especially because wealthy theocratic men who dislike women and want to control them tell you to.
I highly suggest you watch Pink Ribbons Inc. it is on Netflix. I knew a decent bit about them previous and had done a bit of private research on my own about them but hearing stories from women afflicted and from people who have devoted a lot more time and research to it has opened my eyes up much much wider than before.