Dell and Susan G. Komen Promise to Fight Breast Cancer Together

[lemonadesoda]

I always found it funny when a charitable foundation names itself after the megalomanic who came up with the concept of how to harvest peoples money. Personally, "charitable" foundations, if named after a person, should be named after dead people only. A bit like a Saint. Then there is no vested interest, e.g. "The Marie Curie foundation for...", "The Stalin foundation for" (or whatever). Naming a charity after yourself stinks of nothing but selfaggrandisement. e.g. "The lemonadesoda foundation for (myself and my intersts)"... or "The George Bush foundation for international liberty"... etc.

 

[Polaris573]

It doesn't matter if they were supporting higher taxation on FLIP-FLOPS or garden gnomes or something equally ridiculous.

It's not even about abortion.

It's about another big named oh so virtuous and glorified foundation, that takes people's charity under a premise, CURING CANCER none the less, and then spends it on things OTHER than CURING CANCER.

And yes, lots of organizations do it, and it's always wrong every time. As you said, Charities are becoming almost redundant, if 1.3 billion can't support enough research to find a cure, how much will?

The Komen foundation never claims to provide money only for cure research. Much of it is used for breast cancer screening since survival rates are significantly higher if breast cancer is caught early. I think you are confused because their high-profile event is "The Race for the Cure". It is also horribly naive to believe that the money they have given to cancer research is useless because nobody has cured cancer yet. I'm not sure you have all the information you need to pass judgment on this organization. The only leg you have to stand on is, "all charities are bad". Which you are well within you right to believe I suppose.

I always found it funny when a charitable foundation names itself after the megalomanic who came up with the concept of how to harvest peoples money. Personally, "charitable" foundations, if named after a person, should be named after dead people only. A bit like a Saint. Then there is no vested interest, e.g. "The Marie Curie foundation for...", "The Stalin foundation for" (or whatever). Naming a charity after yourself stinks of nothing but selfaggrandisement. e.g. "The lemonadesoda foundation for (myself and my intersts)"... or "The George Bush foundation for international liberty"... etc.

Susag G. Komen (for which the charity is named) died before it's creation. It was created by her sister.

I'm not saying this is the best charity ever, but I do think that if everyone is going to denounce it then they should denounce it for it's faults instead of fictional material.

 

[SK-1]

'Worked' for ..... could mean anything.

No. worked for mean this...
* On December 24, 2008, President Bush appointed her to the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for a six-year term.[11]
* In 2000, she served on the National Steering Committee for the National Dialogue on Cancer.
* Vice President Dan Quayle invited her to chair a subcommittee monitoring research, progress and development in the fight against breast cancer.
* In 1990, President George H. W. Bush appointed her to chair the President's Cancer Panel and to monitor the progress of the National Cancer Program.
* In 1986, President Ronald Reagan appointed her to the National Cancer Advisory Board.


Not all businesses operate the same, Ford has contributed 95 Million in the past decade or so, and 50,000 of their employees do the Run each year.

 

[IcrushitI]

I questioned my Doctor on this. More men die of prostate cancer then women of breast cancer, but does any one hear of any organizations trying to help men out. His answer was"Men don't yell loud enough".
Here in Canada women get free mammogram tests, they even drive a portable bus around with the equipment all for free. When I go for my yearly I have to pay $26.00 out of pocket for the blood work to check for prostate cancer. I wish just once women would show some caring for men as we do for women and scream out loud for us.
Maybe Dell can donate some money for prostate cancer research for men.

 

[SK-1]

I questioned my Doctor on this. More men die of prostate cancer then women of breast cancer, but does any one hear of any organizations trying to help men out. His answer was"Men don't yell loud enough".
Here in Canada women get free mammogram tests, they even drive a portable bus around with the equipment all for free. When I go for my yearly I have to pay $26.00 out of pocket for the blood work to check for prostate cancer. I wish just once women would show some caring for men as we do for women and scream out loud for us.
Maybe Dell can donate some money for prostate cancer research for men.

Yes the dirty little secret. Prostates are not as warm and cuddly as breasts I guess
My favorite radio personality Dr, Dean Edell http://www.monkeypump.com/edell/ has stated this fact for years. Kinda sad when you think of it, we guys have a bigger chance of dieing of Prostate cancer than a woman does from Breast cancer...