- 2006 Komen Pittsburgh Race for the Cure
- 2006 Run With HAART 5K
- 2006 Fineview Step-A-Thon 5K
- 2006 Race for the Cure 5K
- 2006 Pittsylvania Mile Run
- 2006 Us Too Father's Days 10K
- 2006 Run Around the Square
- 2006 IKEA-Montour Trail Half Marathon
- 2006 Run Shadyside 5K
- 2006 Great Race 10K
- 2006 Race for Pace 5K
- 2006 Gomer Davis Pumpkin Chase 5K
- 2006 HealthAmerica XC Challenge
- 2006 South Mountain 10-Miler
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This Mother's Day, I will be participating in the 2006 Komen Pittsburgh Race for the Cure® to raise pledges in support of the fight against breast cancer. Since my aunt is currently receiving treatment for breast cancer, this a disease I am particularly motivated to eradicate.
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women today and the most common cancer among women. It is estimated that more than 1.2 million people will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year worldwide. Early detection is your best defense against this disease. When found early, your chance of survival is greatly increased. Your participation in the pledge program will save lives by providing mammograms to the underinsured and uninsured women and men in 30 counties throughout Central and Western Pennsylvania.
Click here to visit my personal page and pledge your support
By pledging your support of my participation in the Race, you will help provide the necessary funds for vital breast cancer education, screening and treatment programs in our community. Please join me in the fight by pledging your tax-deductible contribution. Simply click the link below to make your online donation. You may also download a pledge/donation form from the website if you prefer to mail in your contribution. Whatever you can give will help! I truly appreciate your support and will keep you posted on my progress. Thank you so much for your time and support in the fight against breast cancer! Every step counts!
To sponsor my participation online, click here.
Funky Dung
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Funky,
Not sure if you new of the connnection, but Komen Foundation gives a lot of money to Planned Parenthood!
Here's a link on some info. Not sure if the Pittsburgh Chapter does or not. Or just do a Google search on Planned Parenthood Komen. There's a lot out there.
http://www.lifeissues.org/AbortionBreastcancer/komen/fact_sheet.pdf
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Posted 11 Mar 2006 at 9:15 pm ¶My wife used to volunteer at SJK races, until it was revealed that the Foundation is a very significant and dedicated contributor to Planned Parenthood. It's unfortunate that such a worthy cause decides to lay with the Culture of Death.
Thanks Roz for posting the link so I don't have to look it up.
-swf
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Posted 11 Mar 2006 at 9:58 pm ¶1) I've already paid my registration fee.
2) As far as I know, the proceeds of this race go to breast cancer research. Komen may indeed give oodles of money to PP, but they are funding abortion services from donations made specifically for breast cancer research would be fraud.
3) I have not seen evidence that Komen grants go to abortion services.
4) As a result of 1-3, I'm still running the race and I'm not telling people not to donate in my name.
5) If someone can prove that Race for the Cure donations go to PP's abortion services (or pro-choice lobbying), I may change my mind on number 4. I want evidence, though, not heresay.
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Posted 12 Mar 2006 at 12:09 am ¶I'm almost afraid to ask, but is there anything wrong with the Fathersday 5/10K sponsored by Us TOO Prostate Cancer Education and Support?
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Posted 12 Mar 2006 at 9:08 am ¶It seems that grants are given by individual chapters. Here's the list of Pittsburgh grant recipients in 2005.
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Posted 12 Mar 2006 at 9:20 am ¶We have the same sort of issues at work when we do our annual United Way donation drive, where there is a clear option to make directed donations to specific agencies.
While the United Way may have affiliations with Planned Parenthood, my directed donations (and the matching funds my employer provides) don't go there.
There's a big difference. Hopefully this misconception doesn't hinder your fundraising, Eric.
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Posted 12 Mar 2006 at 6:39 pm ¶Actually, howard… Your refusal to give to Planned Parenthood via the United Way doesn't affect PP's total allotment from the United Way at all. The way those campaigns usually work is that the local chapter of the United Way promises a certain amount of funds to each agency before the campaign begins. Although individual donors can, and do, direct their donations, such directed donations don't reduce the original allotments to the agencies. So, even though your $100 isn't going to PP, PP's allotment isn't reduced by $100. Instead, the United Way will just shuffle the funds so that PP gets all its money.
(That's United Way's dirty little secret. My former employer reassured us that we could direct our donations, but when I looked into it I realized that it's just smoke and mirrors.)
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Posted 13 Mar 2006 at 1:22 am ¶Nota bene: Each local United Way chapter decides which organizations to support. Not all chapters give money to Planned Parenthood. The chapter in my new city gives money to a pregnancy resource center, and to the Boy Scouts (another controversial group), but not to Planned Parenthood.
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Posted 13 Mar 2006 at 1:25 am ¶Emily,
All that aside, I don't contend that my refusal to support Planned Parenthood changes what other people allow their money to support. That would be quite naive. But if (and it's a big if) every single person who donated to the United Way directed their donations away from a specific agency, it really wouldn't matter what agreement existed between the United Way and that agency. If nobody who donates allows their money to go there, the river will run dry. There's no legal way around it.
But the salient point is that the percentages promised to member agencies have no effect on a donor's directed support. Whoever else's donation is supporting Planned Parenthood, mine absolutely is not. And I have the receipts to prove it. If they have been falsified, I'd sure like to know it.
If you've heard different, I'd be curious to know more about your source.
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Posted 13 Mar 2006 at 2:23 am ¶"If nobody who donates allows their money to go there, the river will run dry. There’s no legal way around it."
Granted, but most United Way donors don't put restrictions on their gifts. In fact, most local United Way campaigns I've seen pressure donors to give unrestricted gifts.
"Whoever else’s donation is supporting Planned Parenthood, mine absolutely is not."
And that ought to be true (I have no proof that it isn't). But neither are you depriving Planned Parenthood of support.
For this reason, I choose to make my charitable donations outside the United Way campaign. Because in that way, I *am* depriving Planned Parenthood of some United Way support — because if the campaign falls X percent short of its goal, what usually happens is that all member agencies' allocations are reduced by X percent. If I choose to donate to all the UW agencies except Planned Parenthood outside the United Way campaign, the other agencies get their money, Planned Parenthood gets less money, and I sidestep the whole moral quagmire. That's what I prefer to do.
(Now, if this is a chapter that simply eliminates funding for certain agencies if the campaign falls short of its goal, that's another question.)
Does United Way do good work? Absolutely. I have no problems donating to the United Way chapter in my new city, because it doesn't give funds to PP. But plenty of local chapters do.
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Posted 13 Mar 2006 at 10:34 am ¶I walked Komen with Nancy and ran the Father's Day one myself and intend to do both this year as well.
I hope that doesn't totally kill your fundraising!
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Posted 13 Mar 2006 at 1:50 pm ¶i just signed up
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