Saturday, May 11, 2013
Attendance at the charity’s signature fundraising event did decline for the second consecutive year.
Thousands of breast cancer survivors and their supporters gathered Saturday on the Mall for the annual Susan G. Komen Global Race for the Cure, but attendance at the charity’s signature fundraising event was down for a second consecutive year. The decline in participation comes after Komen’s founder, Nancy Brinker, sparked national headlines in February 2012 when she unsuccessfully attempted to defund Planned Parenthood....