Susan G. Komen Foundation Gave $7.5 Million to Penn State In Apparent Violation Of New Policy

Mother Jones:

The Susan G. Komen Foundation, which recently announced that it is ending grants to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screening because of a controversial investigation launched by an anti-abortion Republican congressman, currently funds cancer research at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center to the tune of $7.5 million. Like Planned Parenthood, Penn State is currently the subject of a federal government investigation, and like the Planned Parenthood grant, the Penn State grant appears to violate a new internal rule at Komen that bans grants to organizations that are under investigation by federal, state, or local governments. But so far, only the Planned Parenthood grants appear to have been cancelled.

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Comments

[sharpatti]

01:42 AM on 02/18/2012

Not an organization I will ever support again! These actions were just an example of the fundamental basis of the foundation. Don't be fooled by thinking that just because of one resignation, they are going to go back to practicing their mission!! One person within the organization was not the cause...it's much deeper. I prefer to donate money towards the CURE, not someone's political agenda!!

[dbrett480]

01:57 PM on 02/09/2012

This isn't a shocker. Big charities like SGK are known for being very political.

[Snippert]

12:08 AM on 02/07/2012

Anyone else think this women looks like Sandra Bullock if she was burned in a fire?

[Chimoch]

05:40 PM on 02/04/2012

The more I read about the events of late concerning SGK, the more I am disgusted by the charity. Will avoid all products in sponsorship with them.

[EdinFL]

07:28 PM on 02/03/2012

The extreme right has taken a turn for the worse.

[greylox]

04:09 PM on 02/04/2012

**They've been on that curve for a LONG time.

[dixdarlin]

06:49 PM on 02/03/2012

Could we see her tax records, please?

[ThinkGlobal]

05:54 PM on 02/03/2012

This organization has proved to be hypocritical, mean spirited and mis-guided. Donate directly to PPH. Women UNITE. War on one woman's health is war on all.

[Saxton]

04:27 PM on 02/03/2012

If this woman had an aura about her, it would be black.

[bluguy8]

03:49 PM on 02/03/2012

smells like politics to me. When did Penn State start doing womens health care

[ncsteeler]

07:02 PM on 02/03/2012

Hershey MC delivered a couple thousand babies last year. Their ObGyn dept had something like 60K patient appointments last year as well. That in addition to considerable research on a wide variety of women's health issues. They do have a website you know.

[CaroleK1970]

02:42 PM on 02/03/2012

fascinating. lets see em pull funding for PS. waiting....

[drhooper]

03:55 PM on 02/03/2012

Ditto

[mgm5]

01:48 PM on 02/03/2012

These charities, when they become too big and influential, turn into not much more than major corporations. It's all politics, publicity and big money.....altruism, not so much. Remember the head of the Red Cross who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on perks like a private plane?

[Steve Levine1]

08:23 AM on 02/04/2012

Well stated.

[TESOLstudent]

01:41 PM on 02/03/2012

Wow, I can't believe people are so political and hateful. I wonder if Planned Parenthood was the first of many (or a few) organizations that would have been defunded. If so, the only mistake Susan G. Korman foundation made was starting off with Planned Parenthood. The political vitriol from the left is both amusing and sad. How dare an organization or company try to straighten up its finances when it means someone else is going to lose their freebies. If they had started with Penn State, no one would have complained (except Penn State). Such hypocracy! Planned parenthood has sunk to a new low...about equal to ACORN. Sad indeed.

[hoipoli]

02:18 PM on 02/03/2012

.....aahhhhh...........WHAT?! Surely you jest!

[Friction57]

02:27 PM on 02/03/2012

I would agree with you on the Acorn analogy, but for VERY different reasons.

The right has demagogued PP in exactly the same way they did Acorn. With half truths, out right lies and a concerted effort politically to remove something that was providing value to the American people. In both instances they were WRONG. However the tactics are the same, so yes, PP and Acorn are the same, but only because the attacks from the right on them are the same. Politically motivated hack jobs.

[traceymarie]

01:34 PM on 02/03/2012

support pedophilia before life saving procedures for women. go komen. (snark)

[kareemachan]

01:33 PM on 02/03/2012

Hypocrisy from Komen? How.... unsurprising.

[EdinFL]

01:02 PM on 02/03/2012

Brinker's hypocrisy should undergo a mammography: there is a cancer growing there.

[Friction57]

02:27 PM on 02/03/2012

I think it's the big hair

[bluguy8]

03:50 PM on 02/03/2012

AND ALL THE BOTOX

[chris784100]

11:21 PM on 02/03/2012

I wonder how much she makes directly or indirectly off of the foundation. From the mess she has made of her face I think its safe to say she does not make the best decisions in life.

[EdinFL]

11:43 PM on 02/03/2012

It is said that the foundation gives her a salary of a little over $ 450,000 a year.

[truthmachine]

07:49 PM on 02/04/2012

Can we lose the lookism and implied sexism and ageism, please?