Susan G. Komen for the Cure

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</div><div>=</div><div>Nancy Goodman Brinker is the founder and Chair of Global Strategy of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_G.Komen" class="mw-redirect" title="Susan G. Komen" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Susan G. Komen</a>, an organization named after her only sister, Susan, who died from breast cancer in 1980 at age 36.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#cite_note-dallas.bizjournals.com-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[1]</a> Brinker was also<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_Hungary" title="United States Ambassador to Hungary" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">United States Ambassador to Hungary</a> from 2001 to 2003 and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_of_Protocol_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief of Protocol of the United States" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Chief of Protocol of the United States</a> from 2007 to the end of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush_administration" class="mw-redirect" title="George W. Bush administration" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">George W. Bush administration</a>. Brinker, a breast cancer survivor, uses her experience to heighten understanding of the disease. She speaks publicly on the importance of patient's rights and medical advancements in breast cancer research and treatment.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#cite_note-crt.org-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[2]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[3]</a> She is currently serving as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization" title="World Health Organization" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">World Health Organization</a>'s Goodwill Ambassador for Cancer Control.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[4]</a> Brinker is the author of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">New York Times</a>bestselling book Promise Me - How a Sister's Love Launched the Global Movement to End Breast Cancer, released on September 14, 2010.Brinker has helped build Komen by fostering a coalition of relationships within the business community, government, and volunteer sectors in the United States.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[5]</a> For her work on breast cancer research, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Time</a>magazine named Brinker to its 2008 list of the 100 most influential people in the world.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#cite_note-time100-2008-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[6]</a> Calling her "a catalyst to ease suffering in the world," President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Barack Obama</a>honored Brinker with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom" title="Presidential Medal of Freedom" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a>, the nation’s highest civilian honor, on August 12, 2009.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#cite_note-whitehouse.gov-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[7]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[8]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; font-size: 13.3px; display: table; zoom: 1; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; font-size: 13.3px; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#Early_life_and_education" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">1Early life and education</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#Susan_G.Komen_for_the_Cure" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">2Susan G. Komen for the Cure</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#Government_service" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">3Government service</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#World_Health_Organization_Goodwill_Ambassador" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">3.1World Health Organization Goodwill Ambassador</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#Chief_of_Protocol" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">3.2Chief of Protocol</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#Ambassador_to_Hungary" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">3.3Ambassador to Hungary</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#Other_government_service" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">3.4Other government service</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#Business_career" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">4Business career</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#Awards" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">5Awards</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#Publications" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">6Publications</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#Personal" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">7Personal</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#See_also" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">8See also</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">9References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">10External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Early life and education<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate; font-family: sans-serif;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nancy_Brinker&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early life and education" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Brinker (née Goodman) was born to a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jews" title="American Jews" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Jewish</a> family in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoria,Illinois" title="Peoria, Illinois" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Peoria, Illinois</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#cite_note-NotableBiographies-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[9]</a> the daughter of Marvin L. and Eleanor (née Newman) Goodman. Her father was a commercial real-estate developer and her mother a homemaker.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#cite_note-NotableBiographies-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[9]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#cite_note-people.com-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[10]</a> In 1968, she received a B.A. from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Illinois" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Illinois" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">University of Illinois</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#cite_note-NotableBiographies-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[9]</a> After school, she moved to Dallas, Texas and worked at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neiman_Marcus" title="Neiman Marcus" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Neiman Marcus</a> as an assistant couture buyer. Thereafter she took various positions at other public relation firms before marrying <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Brinker" class="mw-redirect" title="Norman Brinker" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Norman Brinker</a>, the founder of the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steak_and_Ale" title="Steak and Ale" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Steak and Ale</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennigan%27s" title="Bennigan's" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Bennigan's</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chili%27s" title="Chili's" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Chili's</a> restaurant chains.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#cite_note-NotableBiographies-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[9]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Susan G. Komen for the Cure<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate; font-family: sans-serif;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nancy_Brinker&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Susan G. Komen for the Cure" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>In 1982, Brinker established <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_G.Komen_for_the_Cure" title="Susan G. Komen for the Cure" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Susan G. Komen for the Cure</a>, after a promise to her dying sister, Susan G. Komen, that she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">citation needed</a>] Since its inception, the nonprofit has raised over $1.9 billion<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[11]</a> for research, education and health services,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[12]</a>making it the largest breast cancer charity in the world.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[13]</a> The Washington Post has called her the "steely force" at the organization.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[14]</a> Komen has more than 75,000 volunteers nationwide, 120 affiliates in the United States, and 3 affiliates in other countries. The organization has resulted in the development of many new treatment options and a higher quality of life overall for breast cancer patients and long-term survivors.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[15]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[16]</a> Brinker served as founding chairman of the organization, supervising all aspects of initial growth,.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[17]</a> On December 2, 2009, Brinker was appointed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEO" class="mw-redirect" title="CEO" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">CEO</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#cite_note-dallas.bizjournals.com-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[1]</a>She also pioneered <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cause_marketing" title="Cause marketing" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">cause marketing</a>, allowing millions to participate in the fight against breast cancer through businesses that share Komen's commitment to end the disease.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[18]</a> Susan G. Komen for the Cure at one point held <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charity_Navigator" title="Charity Navigator" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Charity Navigator</a>'s highest rating, four stars. As of March 2014, it held two stars.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[19]</a> In late January 2012, a public furor arose around the Foundation's policy decision to stop funding most <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_Parenthood" title="Planned Parenthood" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Planned Parenthood</a> offices, resulting in an apology from Brinker and a revised policy by the first week of February 2012.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[20]</a> On June 17, 2013, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_A.Salerno" title="Judith A. Salerno" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Judith A. Salerno</a> replaced Brinker as CEO.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[21]</a></div><div></div>