At any rate, there's little I can say that hasn't already been said very well by many other people - this is some fucking outrageous bullshit, it is demonstrating yet again that anti-choicers do not deserve the moniker "pro-life" because they don't give a shit about any kind of life other than the fetal kind, etc. What I can do, however, is make available some links I've seen in various places, so that if you had been donating to Komen, or were inclined to make a statement by starting your breast-cancer-fight donations with someone else because of this, you will have a list of alternatives. I know that Komen's vastness and extremely effective pinkwashing efforts have made them often the *only* visible target for people who want to give to this cause, and a lot of people wouldn't begin to know where to look for alternative orgs, so here you go. In no particular order:
- Directly to Planned Parenthood's Emergency Breast Care Fund
- African American Breast Cancer Alliance
- National Breast Cancer Foundation
- Breast Cancer Research Foundation
- Living Beyond Breast Cancer
- Breast Cancer Network of Strength
Special thanks to Bebinn on Tumblr, and the rest of the feminist Tumblr community for the various posts and reposts of links I saw today and from which I collected these.
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Right? That's pretty much my feeling about this whole thing. But I'm also watching friends who have given so much time and energy into the 3Day events, some walking 2 and 3 a year, go through some serious soul searching.
I'm, sadly, always a bit skeptical when it comes to fund-raising organizations. I generally prefer to stick with the smaller, locally-based groups. But I also feel like these national groups do have something positive to contribute.
Also, didn't there used to be (maybe still is) a website that ranks charities based on criteria like overhead and salaries and actual donations?
I really feel for people who are having to struggle with watching an organization they trusted and believed in show its true colors, I really do - can't help feeling a little smug though. >.< I hear you on being skeptical of charities, too.
As for ranking charities, I found Charity Navigator, but I find their rankings breakdown hard to read/understand - and they rank Komen 4 stars out of 4, so. :-/
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