I once spent the better part of a Saturday surfing trying to find out about this SGK and exactly what was going on.
My personal observations were that the board of directors (one is SGKs sister I think) make a hell of a lot of money.
I also could not find a link where they actually delineated who they gave money to for real cancer research, the amounts or anything of the sort.
I found plenty about how cancer survivors and those concerned for cancer victims could participate in this 3 day thing and collect a bunch of money to do something nebulous for some innocuous feel-good reason, but nothing substantive beyond that.
I finally capped off my assessment (again, purely my impression) that SGK was about money and, with their on and off, and on again sponsorship of Planned Parenthood activities (who were FORCED to admit in 2012 had NOT ONE mammogram machine in the whole country). Some here may recall that one of the board women, Karen Handel, ended up quitting over their duplicity.
Each time I see that little ribbon at the checkout counter of Kroger and they ask me for money, I ask “Is it for Komen? If so NO!”
Yes, the organization is named after a woman who died young from BC, and her sister started the org. Interestingly, the Left criticizes that sister for being a Republican, and the Left criticizes Komen for stopping the PP funding.
But there are other complaints about Komen: I’ve read that Komen sues smaller fundraising groups to stop them from using similar phrases and symbols. They say they don’t want donors to confuse those groups with theirs. OK, maybe that’s understandable.
But still another complaint is from terminally ill patients: they complain that the org stopped fundraising “for the cure” and has pretty much given up on them.
The Komen organization tends to lead people think they are the only cancer charity out there.
I’ve been to relay for life events locally. Both in support of my teen son for leukemia and as a former cancer patient myself.
Probably insensitive to say, but going to those events you get the feeling it was for breast cancer only. Few men and my son was the only child with cancer there.
You would think such events would work with local children’s hospitals to support the kids and their families.