Mission Breast Cancer Awareness and Eradication

Another challenge the organization faces has to do with its decision in 1998 to restrict the corporate contributions it could accept. For example, BCA will not take pharmaceutical funding due to the policy work it does and because it provides information to people about drugs and doesn't want to put forth a perception that its advice is in any way influenced by funding. The funding challenges of this decision are compounded by the fact that its restrictive corporate-contributions policy leads some to believe that it doesn't take any corporate money, which is untrue, Brenner adds.