Grab a seat and a cuppa Joe. The Susan G. Komen Foundation, which seems to exist solely to raise money, has cut funds to Planned Parenthood to provide mammograms to poor women.
Until now this billion dollar foundation has provided over 800,000 mammograms for poor women at Planned Parenthood locations each year.
Since our soon-to-be-kinged Republican candidate has made it clear he doesn’t care about the needs of poor people (or the middle class, when he says $400K a year in speaking fees is pocket change) who is looking out?
I’ve always believed and have counseled non-profits to be mission-based, and have helped them revisit that mission every decade or so. Are you a community theater? Or are you concentrating on selling high-end coffee and sweets during intermission?
Our mission is to … eradicate cancer as a life-threatening disease… So what about donating nearly one million mammograms to Planned Parenthood goes against that mission? Now you say it’s because they’re “under investigation.” They may be, but only in states who hate that they give women choices.
Perhaps I might change the mission statement: “It is our mission to do whatever is politically convenient, waffle to see where the winds will blow in a national election, keep raising money and decide to do what we want with it when things are settled.” Perhaps we will keep breast cancer in our mission. We’re still thinking about that. Right now we’re going to go raise some more money.
There’s a new skate park we’re thinking of funding, and we’ve found a time share place in Florida that could help us raise some money. Bake sale, anyone? Anyone? Here’s to wonderful non-profits who get too big for their … bras, Dee
Cooking with Dee 