The Susan G. Komen Foundation is one of the BIGGEST scams worldwide.
Enough that the term "pink washing" was invented to describe their hustle. They still have the highest-paid directors of any "non-profit" in the world. The IRS doesn't have any standards for how a non-profit spends their donations, just so long as they spend something, even just 1% of their donations. The (((directors))) part the money with marketing to keep it going and pocket the rest.
Don't forget the part where they went after other cancer charity fundraisers over use of the trademark "... for a Cure."
From a 2010 article:
So far, Komen has identified and filed legal trademark oppositions against more than a hundred of these Mom and Pop charities, including Kites for a Cure, Par for The Cure, Surfing for a Cure and Cupcakes for a Cure--and many of the organizations are too small and underfunded to hold their ground.
"It happened to my family," said Roxanne Donovan, whose sister runs Kites for a Cure, a family kite-flying event that raises money for lung cancer research. "They came after us ferociously with a big law firm. They said they own 'cure' in a name and we had to stop using it, even though we were raising money for an entirely different cause."
Donovan's sister, Mary Ann Tighe, said the Komen foundation sent her a letter asking her to stop using the phrase "for a cure" in their title and to never use the color pink in conjunction with their fundraising.
The Susan G. Komen Foundation is one of the BIGGEST scams worldwide.
Enough that the term "pink washing" was invented to describe their hustle. They still have the highest-paid directors of any "non-profit" in the world. The IRS doesn't have any standards for how a non-profit spends their donations, just so long as they spend something, even just 1% of their donations. The (((directors))) part the money with marketing to keep it going and pocket the rest.
Don't forget the part where they went after other cancer charity fundraisers over use of the trademark "... for a Cure."
From a 2010 article:
Disgusting!