Y-Methe Chicago-based national breast-cancer organization known for its annual Mother's Day race/walkclosed its doors last week, according to the Chicago Tribune. (The website has also been terminated.)
The agency's board made the decision to shut down the 32-year-old organization. Margaret Harte, who founded the race more than two decades ago, told the Chicago Sun-Times that "incompetence and mismanagement" led to Y-Me's financial collapse.
Y-Me's main focus was running a hotline where those recently diagnosed with breast cancer could talk to others who had gone through the illness as well.
"I think the way it was handled was extremely insensitive," said Harte. "I think it was cruel. There were volunteers who were talking to women at different stages of their illness and now you can't get an answer on the hotline. It's wrong."