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Komen Philadelphia Closes
Offi ce As National Regroups
LO C AL
SOPHIE PANZER | JE STAFF
Aft er 30 years of operation,
Susan G. Komen Philadelphia
closed its offi ces for good on
Oct. 30.

Th e national breast cancer
awareness and
research nonprofi t Susan G. Komen
shut its regional affi liates,
including Komen Philadelphia,
as the organization transitions
to a centralized model with a
completely remote workforce.

Th e organization announced
plans to reorganize in April.

“To be clear: Susan G.

Komen is not going anywhere.

We are not leaving communi-
ties. We are transitioning from
a federated business model
of independent affi liates to a
single, united entity in order
to increase our operational
effi ciency and impact,” said
Paula Schneider, president and
CEO of Komen, in a statement.

Komen Public Relations
Director Sean Tuff nell said
the organization’s evolution
was accelerated by the corona-
virus pandemic, and that the
new structure will help ensure
Komen’s long-term survival.

“Th e affi liate model itself is
very fragile insomuch as local
markets are heavily reliant on
race walks. And when you are
in a situation where you can’t
meet on a Saturday morning
with 30,000 of your closest
friends, it is tough to sustain
those local markets,” he said.

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Crowds cheer at a Komen Philadelphia parade in 2019.

Photo by Dan Z. Johnson
We contributed $63.7 million in community
grants, and that means grants to hospitals to
see underserved patients or patients without
insurance.” ELAINE GROBMAN
Komen Philadelphia, said she
was proud of the work her
organization has done for the
past 30 years.

“We contributed $63.7
million in community grants,
and that means grants to hospi-
tals to see underserved patients
or patients without insurance
for mammograms, diagnostic
and treatment and support.

We’ve given $28 million
of breast cancer research to
national, which they’ve distrib-
uted. And we were able to give
184,550 free mammograms to
the community,” she said.

Ari Brooks, director of
the Integrated Breast Center
at Pennsylvania Hospital,
has received 18 grants from
Komen Philadelphia in the past
19 years and knows fi rsthand
how they have impacted the
community. His hospital runs the
Penn Medicine Breast Health
Initiative, which provides breast
cancer screenings to uninsured
women. Many of the patients
the program serves are undoc-
umented or otherwise ineligible
for programs provided with
funding from the state of
Pennsylvania and the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.

Komen Ph i l a d e lph i a
provided the funds to get the
project off the ground. It has
secured funding for the program
through April 2021, but beyond
that point it will have to rely on
other forms of philanthropy as
well as funds provided by the
national organization.

Brooks, who is Jewish, said
Komen Philadelphia would be
sorely missed.

“I can’t stress enough
how indebted I am and our
screening program is to
Komen [Philadelphia] for
getting us started,” he said.

Komen Ph i ladelph ia
worked with Jewish organi-
zations, including Hillels at
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