bonanza oil co. in dallas to replace the lost funding. four days later, komen's board of directors reversed the decision and announced that it would amend the policy to "make clear that disqualifying investigations must be criminal and conclusive in nature and not political". several top-level staff members resigned from komen during the controversy. in august, brinker announced she would leave her ceo role. the number of participants at various komen fundraising events dropped 15–30% in 2012. the susan g. komen 3-day for the cure fundraising walks were scaled back to seven us cities in 2013, from 14, due to a 37% drop in participation over the preceding four years. in january 2014 it was reported that the foundation saw a decline of 22% in contributions in the year following their decision to cease (and then continue) funding for planned parenthood. karen handel, the brinker protégée whose opposition to abortion was at the center of the planned parenthood controversy, resigned and has published a book on the controversy titled planned bullyhood. embryonic stem cell research in 2006, komen wrote in its newsletter that embryonic stem cell research had promise for curing breast cancer. one such grant recipient was robert a. weinberg, ph.d. through whitehead institute for biomedical research at mit. in 2011, the anti-abortion coalition on abortion/breast cancer said that komen gave $12 million to institutions such as johns hopkins school of medicine and the u.s. national cancer institute that funded stem cell research, which the coalition considered to be abortion. in 2012, komen said that it did not fund stem cell research and never has. according to science magazine, christopher umbricht got nearly $600,000 from komen for molecular marker research at johns hopkins that includes stem cells. ceo salary according to komen's 2011–12 irs form 990 declarations, brinker made $684,717 that fiscal year, a 64% raise. komen said the last ceo salary hike had taken place in november 2010. charity navigator continued to give komen very favorable overall ratings based on figures komen had declared to the irs, but charity navigator president and ceo ken berger called this compensation "extremely high". this pay package is way outside the norm. it's about a quarter of a million dollars more than what we see for charities of this size. this is more than the head of the red cross is making for an organization that is one-tenth the size of the red cross.— ken berger of charity navigator, a group that evaluates and rates charities after the release of this information, judith a. salerno was named ceo, with brinker named founder and chair of global strategy.