Enough is Enough

[ND NYC]

The NFL is auctioning off all of their pink used equipment from this month and claiming to donate all the proceeds to charity. Come to find out the owners take 50% to start and then by time everyone else takes their share they donate a whole 7% of each auction to the charity. If you want to help, donate straight.

why does this not surprise me

 

[PLACforever]

Whenever I wear a pink dress shirt and some tool makes a comment my reply is, "I'm wearing this for breast cancer awareness, are you pro-cancer or anti-boobs?"

 

[ickythump1225]

everything that is wrong with College Football.

 

[ickythump1225]

I think the breast cancer awareness thing has reached market over-saturation. It's definitely starting to turn me off. It's just a giant marketing ploy and I doubt much actual good is accomplished through it. There are millions of other causes out there that garner much less recognition and funding that deserve their day in the sun too.

 

[Irish Insanity]

I think the breast cancer awareness thing has reached market over-saturation. It's definitely starting to turn me off. It's just a giant marketing ploy and I doubt much actual good is accomplished through it. There are millions of other causes out there that garner much less recognition and funding that deserve their day in the sun too.

I take it your not a boob man

 

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

I had a dr appointment this week, and was talked into getting a flu shot...The dr spent about 10mins trying to convince me to get the flu shot.

One of his selling points was..."Do you know how many ppl die from from Breast cancer per year?" taking the bait, I said, "No". He tells me, "30,000. Do you how many ppl die from the flu every year?.....37,000"

I immediately thought, "why doesnt the NFL have a Influenza awareness month?"


it was probably not the desired thought process the dr was trying to get me into..

The flu doesn't have powerful groups backing it, selling flu colored stuff doesn't reach out to women like selling pink stuff, and the flu doesn't require detection like cancer does.

The middle one is why this happens. It's a great way to make money for everyone involved. They really need to turn pink into general cancer awareness and use each week to sponsor one kind of cancer: breast, bone, pancreatic, prostate, testicular, whatever. Of course the crazy people at Susan G. Komen wouldn't allow it because I guess they own pink or some dumb **** like that. That organization is a scam. I feel bad for the woman it is named after.

 

[BobD]

At ACS, 70 cents of the dollar is spent directly supporting the mission, which is lower than many non-profits and not all the 30 percent goes just to the CEO's salalry and employee retirement funds but they have a higher overhead with things like research facilities and equipment and supplies (wigs, prothetics, lab equipment, etc.) They still do a lot of good for cancer research, those suffering from cancer and their families. I used to be employed by them and I saw the good that they did daily. My only beef with them was they didn't fund a broader spectrum of cancers.

if you would like to fact check me, their I9 is available online for all the public to see.

Now the current large non-profit I work for is extremly proficient with roughly 93 cents on the dollar going towards the mission and is 97% volunteer run!

My understanding is that it depends on how the accounting is done. It could be 70/30 or 60/40 because of advertising for fund raising. If I have this right, I guess they use between 7-10 percent for advertising to request donations, but if they put a "you should wear sunscreen" message on it, they can claim it as a money spent on prevention as opposed to money spent to seek donations. Either way, they're not a bad organization( there are much worse), but there are better out there.

 

[FLDomer]

My understanding is that it depends on how the accounting is done. It could be 70/30 or 60/40 because of advertising for fund raising. If I have this right, I guess they use between 7-10 percent for advertising to request donations, but if they put a "you should wear sunscreen" message on it, they can claim it as a money spent on prevention as opposed to money spent to seek donations. Either way, they're not a bad organization( there are much worse), but there are better out there.

Good point, agreed. And there are better out there, like my current organization

 

[DillonHall]

Hey, I can understand the Breast Cancer Awareness objective but... Come On
Oregon To Wear Pink Helmets Saturday - ESPN Video - ESPN

How many of your family members have died from breast cancer?