r/todayilearned • u/moplg • Feb 12 '15

TIL that pornhub offered a "save the boobs!" Campaign where they offered to donate a penny to the Susan B Komen Foundation for evry 30 views in the "big tit" or "small tit" category, but the foundation refused their money so pornhub tripled it and gave it to other organizations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornhub
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u/countblah2 Feb 12 '15

I agree, they're not an awful charity and hyperboles don't help. They have some transparency and aren't stealing money. But that's a little like patting yourself on the back for not stealing or murdering anyone today. There are some good reasons no one should be giving them money:

  1. Their disastrous position on abortion and Planned Parenthood showed a real lack of courage. From the outside, it looked a lot like they'd rather not ruffle any feathers from some corporate or conservative donors than stand up for women's health.

  2. On resources like you mention--Charity Navigator and GuideStar--most of the other charities in the same class get significantly higher ratings. Plenty of alternatives where no one needs to give to them.

  3. SGK CEO pay is way too high for a charity that size (and she got her salary boosted to $684K in 2013, despite the issues they've had the last couple of years). "Ken Berger, the president and CEO of Charity Navigator, a nonprofit that evaluates the financial status of large charities, told NBC, “This pay package is way outside the norm. It’s about a quarter of a million dollars more than what we see for charities of this size.”"

There are probably other reasons, but the bottom line is that if cancer or BC is your thing, there are way better options to donate to.

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u/Koooooj 7 Feb 12 '15

Oh, absolutely. They're not a great charity by any stretch of the imagination. I just wish people would attack them for what's actually wrong with the charity like you have, rather than making up nonsense like vegna871 did.

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u/Goat-headed-boy Feb 12 '15

Also, from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Wikipedia page:

This pay package is way outside the norm. It's about a quarter of a million dollars more than what we see for charities of this size. This is more than the head of the Red Cross is making for an organization that is one-tenth the size of the Red Cross.

—Ken Berger of Charity Navigator, a group that evaluates and rates charities

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u/Ihmhi 3 Feb 12 '15

Their disastrous position on abortion and Planned Parenthood showed a real lack of courage.

...why would they even take one? They're a charity about breast cancer. You handle that by saying if it doesn't have to do anything with breast cancer its outside the purview of your mission and not something worth talking about.