The Susan G. Komen foundation is dead to me...like Fredo in the Godfather. I will donate to other similar organizations. If and when Nancy Brinker steps down, I may reconsider.

Yes same here! Never donating Komen again! Go straight to American Cancer org ... Oh and Planned Parenthood too ..worthy causes for women to give their money and effort to instead of Komen the corporation ..

I gave my annual donation to PP. Koman stepped over the line from concern for women's health to right wing politics. They hung themselves with their decision to hire Ms. Handel knowing her anti- PP mission. (Probably used a pink noose!)

Oh, and for anyone thinking they just made a bad judgement call, here's another reason to choose a different breast cancer charity. Komen sued other charities for using the words "for the cure" in their names!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/07/komen-foundation-charities-cure_n_793176.html

Nancy Brinker cares about one thing...earning more and more money for herself. She is as hypocritical and corrupt as some televangelists in the mega-churches.

Bill.....Brinker first inserted politics when she removed funding for PP.

The only person who should be ashamed is Brinker and she showed no remorse until she realized that she would be getting less money for her charity and herself.

You are absolutely right about Nancy Brinker. She has totally lost sight of her mission. Unfortunately, the local affiliates - which are more like indepedently operated franchizes and which have worked for years to raise money and awareness in their communities - are paying the price for decisions and mistakes made at the national level that they had no involvement in. Many of these local affiliates were opposed to the PP debaucle, but had no voice. And now, those who will pay the ultimate price are women in our own communities who benefit from life-saving programs and much needed support services funded by local affiliate grants. Such a shame!

Has it occurred to those of you hating on Komen and Brinker that it was Nancy Brinker's dedication and leadership that turned Komen into the successful charity that it is. Success for Komen translates directly into lives saved. How can you say Brinker is only in it for the money? She lost her sister to breast cancer. Ask yourself this: is the world a better or worse place because of Komen? Before Komen came on the scene breast cancer was a disease mired in shame and was completely under-researched. It's so easy to criticize people. Have any of you started a global movement to fight breast cancer?

FACT: 75% of Race for the Cure money stays with the local affiliate. If you withdrew your support for Komen, all you did was keep critical breast cancer services from women in your own area.

FACT: Of the 19 PP clinics receiving the SGK grants in question, 17 had no mammogram facility and offered no actual breast cancer services.

FACT: Komen consistently receives the highest ratings from charity watchdog organizations. No other organization has more or done better.

FACT: Nancy Brinker worked for Komen for almost 30 years receiving ZERO compensation. She has given far more money to Komen than she has received.

FACT: For more than 20 years, Brinker championed Komen support for PP, even though right wingers bashed her constantly for it and donors (such as Curves) withdrew funding as punishment.

FACT: If each of us did 1% of the good Nancy Brinker has done in her life, we’d be living in a different world.

FACT: Haters don’t care about facts. They just go off like little wind-up weasels when a blogger flips their hater switch.

I support the important work of Planned Parenthood, but they should be ashamed of the way they’ve shivved their longtime supporter in the back. It started as a clever fundraising play, but ignorant people turned it into a personal attack on a great woman who dedicated her life to helping others. I know Nancy personally, and she is the real deal. I've never met anyone with greater integrity or sense of purpose.

If you're a supporter of breast cancer research, there are multiple organizations that support Breast Cancer research and health care awareness for women. If you no longer support Komen (I do not) there are still many viable and dedicated organizations that are focussed on the issue without making multiple PR and political stumbles that cloud the message.

"hating on"? When did that become proper English?

If you want to donate to Komen, do so....but 1000s of others have opted never to do so again because of Brinker turning a wonderful charity into her personal PAC.

We are not "haters" or whatever word of the moment you co-opted from your kids; rather, we are making a moral decision.

If you cannot respect that, then why should I bother discussing it?

As an individual with breast cancer being the family curse(2 aunts, grandmother, cousin), I decided not the do the Komen race this year simply because of Nancy Brinker. I will continue to support cancer research, just not Komen, not now. From what I've read, I wasn't the only one who felt that way last month at the race. Changes need to take place, unless we hit them where it hurts the most, nothing will be done. I respect the work she's done. I just think she's stepped over her boundaries and acting bigger than expected with the charity money she's in charge of. Komen was never supposed to be a political bed for politicians and their agendas.

Katy....I guess all the newspapers are wrong about St. Nancy. She is clearly a selfless, wonderful, politically-neutral person. We are so blessed to live in her world.