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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKomen had $75.2 million dollars in administrative and direct fundrasing expenses last year...
In addition to $29.7 million in Race for the Cure 3-day event and $18.1 million in 'other' fundraising expenditures.
http://ww5.komen.org/uploadedFiles/Content/AboutUs/Financial/2011%20Komen%20Financial%20Statements%20FINAL(3).pdf
Who know how many millions spent in litigation against other non-profits for using the word "cure" and the color pink...
Komen is doing some good, but it's administrative and fundraising expenses are astronomical in scope.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)I remember when the Red Cross got into trouble for the same thing, very few of its dollars were going to actual needy recipients.
appleannie1
(5,062 posts)elleng
(130,749 posts)They're having their heads handed to them now; hope they can recover their original goodness.
Lightning_McQueen
(16 posts)Not going to Nancy Brinker's pocket or Karen Handel's pocket.
The dollars goes to PP and other local breast cancer foundation - including the Denver's SGK who broke away from the national foundation and continues to fund local PP's here in Denver (which is the right move, btw)
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)Bookmarking.
mainer
(12,018 posts)Sad how it became all about profit.
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)Quite the profitable little gig those GOPer family value folks have collected, eh?
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)There was a line item for the OP title on their Year End Report, and then a separate line for Race for the Cure, and another for 'Other'
appleannie1
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Earth_First
(14,910 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)They cannot hide on the Internets. They have cash, we have cache.
slay
(7,670 posts)fundraising for what - first class plane tickets for the admins?
if Komen hadn't tried to make this about politics, they could have kept their nice little scheme going as usual - but now they are being exposed - serves um right for deciding to try and control women, instead of helping them.
JPZenger
(6,819 posts)Many non-profits stick an "educational" brochure in a fundraising letter, and thereby are able to count that cost as educational instead of fundraising.