Comments on: An update! http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/?p=1251 Tue, 07 May 2013 20:06:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Jane http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/?p=1251&cpage=1#comment-931 Jane Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:58:20 +0000 http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/?p=1251#comment-931 How about this: In answer to the question about only a stipend of $3,000 a year being offered to Komen affiliate staff in lieu of health insurance, the answer was, "We are too small to offer health insurance." So, if a staff member is diagnosed with breast cancer -- will Komen pick up the tab? Also, sickened by "Preserve your Ta-Ta's - join the Bon Bon BraGade," an Avon Foundation - walk-related local fund raising effort to raise the $1500 a piece to be allowed to walk. I have a suggestion for the Keep A Breast Foundation - -offer that money to women who have either been told they might have a malignancy, or those diagnosed, to pay for professional, high-level psych therapy. There's a great need, unmet by anyone. How about this: In answer to the question about only a stipend of $3,000 a year being offered to Komen affiliate staff in lieu of health insurance, the answer was, “We are too small to offer health insurance.” So, if a staff member is diagnosed with breast cancer — will Komen pick up the tab?

Also, sickened by “Preserve your Ta-Ta’s – join the Bon Bon BraGade,” an Avon Foundation – walk-related local fund raising effort to raise the $1500 a piece to be allowed to walk.

I have a suggestion for the Keep A Breast Foundation – -offer that money to women who have either been told they might have a malignancy, or those diagnosed, to pay for professional, high-level psych therapy. There’s a great need, unmet by anyone.

]]> By: Bernadette Broderick http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/?p=1251&cpage=1#comment-915 Bernadette Broderick Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:37:12 +0000 http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/?p=1251#comment-915 Buyer/Donator Beware! Thank you for sharing the MSNBC info on the financial expenditures Keep A Breast. I work for a breast cancer organization, and am all too familiar with bogus breast cancer fundraising organizations in my area. My high-school aged son came home & asked me if he bought one of these bracelets, would he be allowed to wear it? I found the Foundation's website, and they seemed to be a legit org. with an unfortunate message. I then checked with several survivor friends to see what they thought of the message, and each was overwhelmingly uncomfortable with it. The "boobie" bracelets were voted down in my house, and my son wears a pink rubber bracelet imprinted "strength, hope, faith, courage" a concession to the bracelet-for-a- cause mania. Now I can let him know where his friends' money is really going. Buyer/Donator Beware! Thank you for sharing the MSNBC info on the financial expenditures Keep A Breast. I work for a breast cancer organization, and am all too familiar with bogus breast cancer fundraising organizations in my area. My high-school aged son came home & asked me if he bought one of these bracelets, would he be allowed to wear it? I found the Foundation’s website, and they seemed to be a legit org. with an unfortunate message. I then checked with several survivor friends to see what they thought of the message, and each was overwhelmingly uncomfortable with it. The “boobie” bracelets were voted down in my house, and my son wears a pink rubber bracelet imprinted “strength, hope, faith, courage” a concession to the bracelet-for-a- cause mania. Now I can let him know where his friends’ money is really going.

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