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Subscribe to RSSCEO Nancy Brinker stepped into a new management role – the latest fallout at breast cancer organization Susan G. Komen for the Cure after the foundation's decision to cut Planned Parenthood funding and then reinstate it. NBC's Lisa Myers reports.
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Liz Thompson announced she would step down as president of the Susan G. Komen Foundation in September.
The Susan G. Komen for the Cure shook up its top leadership Wednesday announcing the resignation of its president and shifting role for its CEO and founder, Nancy Brinker. Two members of its board of directors also announced their resignations.
Komen President Liz Thompson announced plans to leave the organization in September. Meanwhile, Komen Founder and CEO Nancy Brinker will shift to a new management role as chair of the Komen Board Executive Committee when the search for a new senior executive is finished.
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Komen also said that Brenda Lauderback and Linda Law, who have served on their board since 2008 and 2009 respectively, are leaving the board of directors.
"The legacy will continue," Thompson said in a released statement. "It has been a privilege and an honor to serve in this role."
Regarding new role, Brinker said, "I was asked by the Board in 2009 to assume the CEO role. Three years into that role, and 32 years after my promise to my sister to end breast cancer, I want to focus on Susan G. Komen's global mission and raising resources to bring our promise to women all around the world."
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The shakeup at the top comes after a controversial decision earlier this year by the national foundation to cut breast-cancer screening grants to Planned Parenthood.
The national Komen headquarters announced in January that it was pulling funding from Planned Parenthood because of a government investigation, citing a probe launched by a Florida congressman at the urging of anti-abortion groups. Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., wanted to look into accusations that Planned Parenthood had improperly used public funds for abortions.
Under fire, Komen CEO denies politics in Planned Parenthood cuts
Joshua Roberts / Reuters
Nancy G. Brinker founded the Susan G. Komen for the Cure in honor of her sister. She has been shifted to a new role, the foundation announced Wednesday.
Komen was blasted for the decison. Days later, the national organization reversed its position.
Cheryl Shaw, Executive Director of the Puget Sound Komen chapter, told KING 5 in February the local chapter was opposed to the funding guidelines from the beginning.
Did Komen overstate cancer screening benefits?
"When the decision became public, we wrote a letter to our national office and told them we were totally against this policy, that it had an adverse effect on our work here in the Puget Sound area and it really took us off of our mission,” Shaw said. “Our mission is to save lives and end breast cancer forever."
Unfortunately for Komen, its local chapters and the millions of women they support by promoting breast health and cancer screenings, the damage was done.
Editor’s Note: KING 5 is a sponsor of the 2012 Race for the Cure.
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hey Nancy....
I am out to....
no more from me either....
Sounds to me like Komen lost all the way around. I stopped volunteering for the “Race for the Cure” and cut of my meager $150.00 a year donation as well but for a much different reason. I didn’t want any of my money going to Planned Parenthood. I now donate my time and money to the American Cancer Society Relay for Life. There are to many worthy organizations to donate to that aligned more closely with my philosophies, looks others have done the same.
The Right wing is very pro family, much in the same way the Taliban are pro woman's rights
Always follow the money, and there's sure plenty of it in the 'let's cure cancer' b.s.
I hope someone remembers that the health plan for America includes not allowing pre-existing conditions to influence whether you have your medical needs paid for or not. I can see several people need to learn what it really means instead of talking like the morons who hate it because it happened in this administration. Partisan politics is killing America and Americans, Komen is pandering to the corporate elite like the rest of them. I'm sure she has a nice big bankroll and plenty of bathrooms in her house. Sorry, I just have no use anymore for people who use the misery of others to promote themselves in the name of those who really suffered.
And cures for cancer have been around for a long time, just squelched at every turn. Some of them even jailed. IE: look up Essiac tea
The Komen CEO salary in 2010 was $459,406 a year.[29] Komen paid founder and CEO Nancy Brinker $417,712 in 2011.[30]
nice payday
That is some nice cash , I want in !
Cecile Richards, CEO of Planned Parenthood checked in at over $380,000 for 2008. Also a nice payday. Only it takes a hell of a lot more searching to find that number, as though PP doesn't want you to know they pull in almost a billion dollars a year and had an 85 million dollar surplus for a non-profit company. Quite a profit for a non-profit. Where does that money go?
Right up there with the Planned Parenthood Execs.
This still places the cause of recent problems (Brinker) too close to the top.
You know the shake-up had to happen , they have lost a lot of donations ...
Breast exams are FREE and REQUIRED now that "obamacare"is in effect so the need for such charities will lessen-thank you Pres.Obama!!!!!!!!!!!!!
please how about some economy and jobs Obama
how about you're f**king fired FOR THE CURE...?
Too little too late. Korman lost me when I found out how close they were to the Republican Party. No women should support an organization that trusts the Repubs. Taking money away from planned parenthood was disgraceful! Men, save your comments, this is about women supporting women. For once, would the men just let us women alone and we will decide what we do with our money and our bodies! Stay out of the discussion of abortions. You want to make it political and use it against the Deomocratic Party and Obama, that is the only reason you are commenting at all.
well i see the Obama Campaign has a great supporter now
Sandra Fluke i hope they pay her so she can buy some
condoms
And Obama and the Dems have been in your corner all along. Give me a break. Politicians are all alike, they don't really care about you, just your money. You have been drinking the kool-aid for too long.
mgm-
I agree for the most part. Men commenting on Komen and/or PP are discussing this issue not because of cancer but because, once again, men want to control women's health issues. Mostly it's religious zealots who think they know what's best for we, the weaker sex. I call B S on that. I won't vote for any candidate who wants government, religious controls on women's health.
As a man, my experience is carrying boxes of books for the Planned Parenthood book sale, or carrying tables and folding chairs, for the Race for the Cure, and etc, because in general women don't own pickup trucks. As a scientist, I know they're not going to cure cancer, nor get pregnancies all planned out, and society will run like a well honed chronometer, ticking with perfect precision. Women get a variety of cancers, not just breast cancer, and giving to breast cancer research only diminishes the funding for the other cancer research fields. Pregnancies are regulated by biology, of course, but also a variety of religious, social, cultural, and economic factors, and no one has "on plan" for those variables. As a result, I'm inclined to agree with many of the posts that this issue is all about money. The ugly truth is, that for all the money spent there are a significant number of personal and health care failures... if you count death as a failure. I, as a man, don't know the parameters of that which is termed, " women's health ", so consider it as an aspect of overall social health... which boils down to the ages old statistic of death by (blank) per 1000 in population.
Men get breast cancer too. Whack job.
The big question is.....Over the years of their being around the foundation has collected some TWO BILLION dollars. Their records show that they have given out about $750 Million. That begs the question, what happened to the other 1.25 BILLION? Of course, they are not alone in these kind of figures. Many so called "charities" have huge donations coming and very little going out.
Isn't this only par for the course? Since I have been old enough to understand (like 50 yrs ago) there has been tales of social betterment charities raking in the money. Given the media, and those who allows truthful interviews, nothing surprises me. Being a survivor of breast cancer, I can attest to the brutality of cancer treatments. Their only boast over the past three decades is that they can better treat the nausea. When I would question the many side effects not mentioned to me, I was treated as though invisible. If the disease comes back, I am refusing treatment. It is a shame that the big pharmas have so much influence over us. A shame on so many levels I cannot even phathom writing about it. I pray for the folling generations that they will have better options.
Komen: Brinker $417k a year, 50 top execs $100k+ a year, fund raising and admin costs 21% of donations. 40% went to health education. 21% to research. All figures from Wash Post 2/2012. The article states that the salaries are in line with other charities of similar size.
GOOD RIDANCE TO THEM ALL! They forgot from where they came and not have time to look around for where they came
Komen: Brinker $417k a year, 50 top execs $100k+ a year, fund raising and admin costs 21% of donations. 40% went to health education. 21% to research. All figures from Wash Post 2/2012. The article states that the salaries are in line with other charities of similar size.
On par with the PP execs, huh?
Why doesn't the Komen foundation just fold, already? It's already fooled enough women and sold enough cheap pink cr*p to last a couple of lifetimes. We need a smart, educated approach to cancer, not an emotional marketing ploy.
ajillinois-that's the problem with most charities-it's profitable to start a charity as long as you sell well-you give yourself a BIG paycheck -welcome to the charities of the USA.if you really want to give -give your time not money
It's all about the money, what?
Yes, the damage is done and can't be undone. Komen will now forever be associated with the GOP's war on women.
Suzq-1497446, until we women stand up and support each other and our issues people like R257 will continue to control the conversation. We have to control the conversation because it is our bodies. I will not stand by and let men try to tell me what I should, or any of my women friends, should do with our bodies. Kormen sold us down the drain for money. I sent so much money to that organization because my Mother died of breast cancer. I have always sent money to planned parenthood, as did my Mother. No more to Kormen, every dime goes to planned parenthood. Never let a man tell you what you should do with your body, who you should vote for, or what to do with your life.
Komen isn't run by men, and there are plenty of other women trying to tell you what to do with your body. I'm a man, and I support your sovereignty over your own body. The sides of this issue are not dependent on gender.
to blind to even see that....
Agreed, mgm.
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Please make the effort to see the film, Pink Ribbons Inc., if you'd like to inform yourself about the "business of breast cancer".
Meh Susan is a fraud - I only support other groups (such as Avon) to help pay for breast cancer research. Susan B Kolman is all about the fame and moola -
No thanks!
They need to have Brinker step down and leave the company.
Wow. Nice to see the Republican narrow minded posters. It is sad that in this day and age we still have so many Republicans that are ignorant, uneducated, or just complete control freaks. To view the world from such limited experience, or just based on your own perspective is truly sad.
As long as SGK gives to PP, my dollars will go elsewhere.
That's OK Pat--as soon as SGK withdrew funding for PP, I quit donating to SGK, and started sending all that money STRAIGHT to PP.
AND I quit buying anything with that sappy pink ribbon on it.
Sad that you think only 'chaste' women's lives are worth saving.