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It's actually a valid question. A while back, I had a meeting with the leader of a local branch of another nonprofit that promotes awareness and funds research for a different life-threatening disease (intentionally vague to protect their confidentiality). In the meeting, they mentioned that there is a lot of frustration among the nonprofit community because Komen has done such an insane job of developing a movement around the breast cancer issue that many other diseases are having trouble keeping research going. Everyone's donated to Komen, so there's not as much money to go around for the other issues.
I know that part of that is pure jealousy, but there's no question that there is a disproportionately high level of donor funding going to Komen than toward other similar organizations when compared to the actual number of people who have issues with various types of diseases.
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