What SHOULD Be Next for Komen

[stopbush]

1. Handel needs to be fired WITH CAUSE and without severance/parachute - TODAY!

2. Board members who voted to defund PP need to submit their resignations - TODAY!

3. Brinker needs to announce her retirement as head of SGK, effective ASAP. She should forgo any part of her $400,000 salary for the time she has left with SGK and should be offered no pension, parachute or severance beyond anything she has sitting in her 401k.

4. SGK needs to immediately restore the $12-MM in funding for stem cell research they just cut. All other defunding decisions must be put on hold for at least the next 6 months to determine how many of these cuts were made for political reasons, then, reevaluated.

5. Remaining board members - ie: those who didn't vote to defund PP - need to come up with a plan forward in the next 30 days that includes strict firewalls between any political influence and SGK, as well as transparency as to all of their existing ties to RW political organizations, including a very public disclosure of their finances.

That's a start, even if it doesn't guarantee the continuing financial support of people who have been shocked to learn what SGK is REALLY all about.

[Hutzpa]

1. I'm confused

a charity foundation with board members?? What is the difference from running a
corporation then? And they don't pay taxes either, but the founder gets paid
$400,000 per year, wow.

[stopbush]

3. Non-profit board members receive no financial compensation from the organization.

In fact, most of them are primary donors to the organizations upon whose boards they sit.

However, they are the people who make decisions by voting on initiatives and policies.

I imagine that Handel brought forward this ploy to defund PP, but it would have never become policy had the SGK board not approved the ploy.

Brinker - the founder - IS compensated as the Exec Director. She also sits on the board as a voting member of that board. This is the case in almost all non-profits - the Exec Dir is the only staff person in the organization who had a vote in board decisions.

People are asked onto these boards because they 1. have influence and reach in the community, and 2. they can contribute money and time to the organization. What's important to realize is that it is the Exec Dir who often decides who gets asked onto these boards, and EDs typically invite people who think like them onto their boards. That often means that the board just goes along with what the ED recommends.

[LiberalFighter]

5. I believe that Brinker was fully behind defunding PPH and is of the same mind as Handel.

[Hutzpa]

6. In other words she made the decision

supported by Karen Handel to discontinue funding PP.

[WingDinger]

2. Threaten to deny their tax exempt status, for any partisan outbursts.

[Cognitive_Resonance]

4. K&R nt

[yellowcanine]

7. I think Handel certainly has to go because she compounded the error by sending out the

nasty tweet about PP. And Brinker should probably go also if they truly want to have any hope of getting this behind them. They have basically admitted that they made a defunding decision in response to unproven politically based allegations and had it stood the result might have been that victims of breast cancer might have been injured. As it is they have likely dried up as significant amount of donations to their cause. That kind of thing can't just be undone with no consequences. Confidence in Komen will have to be rebuilt one donor at a time and it is unlikely that this will happen without a major shakeup.