WHAT: Local Hyundai dealers and representatives from Hyundai Motor America will present a Hope Grant in the amount of $100,000 to Nationwide Children’s Hospital to support childhood cancer research and support programs dedicated to improving the lives of children with cancer. Childhood cancer patients and their families will join doctors, researchers and staff from Nationwide Children’s to receive the award. September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month – to commemorate it, Hyundai Hope on Wheels will work to raise awareness of childhood cancer with a national television commercial about this issue, materials in its dealerships and donations totaling $6.8 million to help fight childhood cancer. The donations will be given as “Hope Grants” to hospitals and nonprofit organizations across the country. Hyundai Motor America and its dealers joined the fight against childhood cancer in 1998 and created a program called Hyundai Hope on Wheels. At the end of this year, Hope on Wheels will have donated more than $23 million to fight childhood cancer. For more information about the program, visit www.hyundaihopeonwheels.org. Childhood cancer remains the leading cause of death by disease among U.S. children 1 to 14 years of age. Every day approximately 40 children, the equivalent of a school classroom, are diagnosed with cancer, which adds up to almost 15,000 new cases of childhood cancer diagnosed each year. WHEN: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 9:30 a.m. – media opportunity WHERE: Nationwide Children’s Hospital 555 S. 18th St. Columbus, OH 43205 *please allow time to meet media relations rep in hospital lobby to be escorted to event location Media Contacts: Mary Ellen Peacock Nationwide Children’s Hospital 614-355-0495 Johanna Clark Allison & Partners c: 626-497-5137 johanna@allisonpr.com
Local Hyundai dealers and representatives from Hyundai Motor America will present a Hope Grant in the amount of $100,000 to Nationwide Children’s Hospital to support childhood cancer research and support programs dedicated to improving the lives of children with cancer. Childhood cancer patients and their families will join doctors, researchers and staff from Nationwide Children’s to receive the award. September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month – to commemorate it, Hyundai Hope on Wheels will work to raise awareness of childhood cancer with a national television commercial about this issue, materials in its dealerships and donations totaling $6.8 million to help fight childhood cancer. The donations will be given as “Hope Grants” to hospitals and nonprofit organizations across the country. Hyundai Motor America and its dealers joined the fight against childhood cancer in 1998 and created a program called Hyundai Hope on Wheels. At the end of this year, Hope on Wheels will have donated more than $23 million to fight childhood cancer. For more information about the program, visit www.hyundaihopeonwheels.org. Childhood cancer remains the leading cause of death by disease among U.S. children 1 to 14 years of age. Every day approximately 40 children, the equivalent of a school classroom, are diagnosed with cancer, which adds up to almost 15,000 new cases of childhood cancer diagnosed each year. WHEN:
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 9:30 a.m. – media opportunity WHERE:
Nationwide Children’s Hospital 555 S. 18th St. Columbus, OH 43205 *please allow time to meet media relations rep in hospital lobby to be escorted to event location Media Contacts: Mary Ellen Peacock Nationwide Children’s Hospital 614-355-0495 Johanna Clark Allison & Partners c: 626-497-5137 johanna@allisonpr.com
