Susan G. Komen Ribbon Follow-Up...

[Fresh Baked Printing]

This may or may not shed a bit more light on the ribbon thing. I asked the Komen national office directly and they said:

"Great question, Bobby! Thanks for asking! Unfortunately, we don't allow participants to use our logo and ribbon on team shirts because only our top level sponsors are allowed to use our logo and ribbon. However, we have an "Official Race Team" badge that you can acquire from your Komen Affiliate to use as an alternative on your shirts. We can notify the Affiliate so they are aware that you will be contacting them!"

It would appear that no permission would ever be forthcoming to using the ribbon logo and other Komen marks unless you are a top level ($$$) sponsor who presumably would be printing very large quantities of shirts, such as for a Ford sponsored employee walk fundraiser.

http://ww5.komen.org/Partners/PartnersSponsors.html

[Screened Gear]

Wow that is nice to know. If they ever went after all the people in the walk (that have shirts with the logo on their shirt) it would turn out to a major S_it storm. It’s a walk for their charity you think they would let participants use their logo. They are walking to give them the money. I am really surprised at their stance on this.

[royster13]

The money that they get from corporate sponsors pays for the administration costs so they do not want to harm those relationships....

[Fresh Baked Printing]

The money that they get from corporate sponsors pays for the administration costs so they do not want to harm those relationships....

If you look at their sponsorship page, there are certain industries that are "full": http://ww5.komen.org/uploadedFiles/Content/Partners/BecomeOne/AttachFactSheet2010-2011updated.pdf

[blue moon]

we are talking about the ribbon with a dot above it here, right? I can't see them having rights to a pink ribbon!

pierre

[Screened Gear]

we are talking about the ribbon with a dot above it here, right? I can't see them having rights to a pink ribbon!

pierre

I want to share my point of view of these Nonprofit Donation taking big corporations. I can't stand them. I worked for a big company once and United Way came in and we were told to donate 3 percent of our salary and we would be reimbursed (not sure why that was) so we did. I then later find out the person from United way that gave use the professional presentation makes over $250,000 a year. I ran the numbers a little (guessing) So my entire company would have not even paid here salary. That means we gave money to help the poor and all of our money wouldn't even pay her.

Its sad that this crap is legal. I know if these nonprofits didn't exist then the poor people would never get as much as they do now. It just makes no sense it costs so much money to get money from my pocket to a poor person.

Just my 2 cents.

[JBLUE]

we are talking about the ribbon with a dot above it here, right? I can't see them having rights to a pink ribbon!

pierre

This is why when someone comes in needing it I draw my own. Just change it up a bit. Right or wrong its what I do.

[screenxpress]

we are talking about the ribbon with a dot above it here, right? I can't see them having rights to a pink ribbon!

pierre

I want to share my point of view of these Nonprofit Donation taking big corporations. I can't stand them. I worked for a big company once and United Way came in and we were told to donate 3 percent of our salary and we would be reimbursed (not sure why that was) so we did. I then later find out the person from United way that gave use the professional presentation makes over $250,000 a year. I ran the numbers a little (guessing) So my entire company would have not even paid here salary. That means we gave money to help the poor and all of our money wouldn't even pay her.

Its sad that this crap is legal. I know if these nonprofits didn't exist then the poor people would never get as much as they do now. It just makes no sense it costs so much money to get money from my pocket to a poor person.

Just my 2 cents.

Looks like another nobly started thing just managed to end up lining a bunch of people's pockets. 

Actually becoming pretty commonplace these days.