My not for profit work is done gratis. Volunteer. I suppose I can see small stipends. But charities where the heads live like Pharaohs is bullshit. No reason that “CEO” can’t live on $80k a year quite nicely.
Do you have a link for that? I’m not familiar with the incident. I’m not surprised that that particular assclown is involved.
Not for the charity’s profit, perhaps. The staff are free to profit and live like kings, apparently. :dubious:
Exactly. It’s a load of smelly crap if you ask me. I don’t mind the head of a large staff making a living wage, but $480k isn’t charity.
Former G. W. Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer (a close friend of Komen’s CEO) has been involved with Komen’s search for a communications director, and candidates for the job were asked about the Planned Parenthood issue. I don’t know why anyone thought this was political.
Coincidentally, a new documentary out of Québec and supported by the National Film Board focuses on the difference between the reality of breast cancer and the huge marketing machine it has become. I wonder if the timing will hurt SGK (and other charities) even more.
Here is an article about Pink Ribbons, Inc.
And they also help abort hundreds of thousands of babies.
Of course now those spineless idiots at Susan G Komen has backed off in the face of hysterical Jacobinist feminists.
Yes, they perform abortions in a safe, legal manner. And I am thankful they do. Hysterical, right wing evangelical Christians do not get to dictate public policy to the masses. I am proud of the courage it takes to do the right thing in the face of ugly, political scare tactics.
The demonization of PP is political rhetoric and misplaced on so many levels.
Feminazis! Feminazis! Jesus Christ, Rush Limbaugh must be rolling over in his grave.
I know, I know. Allow me this little fantasy.
Why is a breast cancer charity getting involved in the abortion debate at all?
It sounds like Komen’s board has completely lost touch with what their mission is. If you care about cancer research, you should probably direct your money elsewhere.
Don’t forget the brown ribbon for victims of gastrointestinal diseases.
People die, it’s a natural part of life. I think it’s good for there to be charities that do breast cancer research and awareness and it’s good there are government funded organizations to help control the population of poor people, but I just don’t have any strong feelings about either SGK or PP. I have some causes I care enough about to donate to, medical research just isn’t one of them. I don’t have anything against those that do, although in terms of medicine I’m not sure how important SGK is. They’ve given some $2bn to breast cancer research during its lifetime as an organization. That may seem like a lot but it costs a pharmaceutical company a billion dollars just to develop a slightly different version of cholesterol medication with less side effects that existing drugs, so something as difficult to control as cancer that’s probably a drop in the bucket. Not to say drops don’t matter, as they obviously do, but I just don’t necessarily feel SGK is very important to me or society.
If I had to rank the two in some way I’d say I’d rather see PP stay operational since they help to suppress the number of societal leaches as they give poor women several different options to avoid having children. So Planned Parenthood is important in a societal way, but even still I’m not a poor woman so I’m not personally invested in their existence. I am a tax payer but I’m at a point now where I’m essentially numb to changes in how much tax I’m paying.
As someone who probably has donated far more in my lifetime to charity than you have, I personally want my money going to organizations that are ran professionally.
If you’re smart you pick one that is ran by a competent, professional staff (and that means they are going to have some people in key roles who make more than a living wage) but isn’t ran for the purposes of just creating a perpetual profit machine for the people who work there (as some charities become, I’ve long felt United Way for example is borderline in this territory.)
The donors making charitable contributions are the ones performing acts of charity, if you want a properly run organization with large presence in all 50 states, billions in assets and revenue, and that impacts millions of people, you need people that are professionals and qualified to run these outfits. Someone who can be a big time fund raiser at a charity isn’t going to do it for a song unless they are independently wealthy or are extremely altruistic. There are people out there who meet those definitions, but operationally it’s unlikely you’re going to get lucky enough to staff all the major charitable organizations in the country with people like that.
This policy change didn’t come about due to lobbying by Christians or anybody else. While I don’t think the official line of defunding PP just due to “investigation” is true, I do think its more of a desire for what is an apolitical organization to avoid a vicious political battle.
That why is it funding Planned Parenthood which is a politically charged organization?
From this article:
And right wing idiocy once again leads to more abortions, win win.
It is funding PP because they do well visits including BREAST EXAMS for poor women, which catches breast cancer and saves lives.
The person who orchestrated this ran for office in Georgia on an anti PP platform. Prolife advocates were pressuring SGK to break away from PP despites the lives the funding saved.
Jacobinists?
Why not fund other organizations that do not perform abortions? I mean its not like Planned Parenthood is the only women’s health organization in the world.
I’ve sat on the boards of a number of non-profits, and the only one I’d consider to be worthy of a $150k plus salary would be a chamber of commerce, and then only because it isn’t a charity.
I’ve heard about United Way being suspected of outrageous exec salary abuse for years. Looking it up http://www.bbb.org/charity-reviews/national/human-services/united-way-worldwide-in-alexandria-va-1994 I see it is over a million a year. Screw that. It’s twice as bad as SGK.
No, I don’t want help the sick and poor charities to make its employees, including top employees, millionaires. If that is what they want, let them go into the private sector and earn it. But not from raking off dollars intended to go to the poor and sick.
There is nothing shameful about earning minimum wage for charity work (or other legal work) or a modest living wage.