Month: December 2017

Cohen Children’s Medical Center launches fundraising, marketing campaigns

Stuart Mitchell

Cohen Children’s Medical Center today announced the launch of its first integrated fundraising campaign to help the nonprofit – recognized as one of the nation’s best children’s hospitals – continue to deliver life-saving care. The outreach effort, spearheaded by Northwell Health Foundation, is being supported by the “Cohen Heroes” marketing campaign, which features some of the inspiring stories of the thousands of youngsters who have overcome life-threatening illnesses and injuries, thanks to the expertise of their caregivers. “What makes this campaign unique is that it promotes our pediatric services while…

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Impassioned Lung Cancer Survivors Join Your Cancer Game Plan Campaign

Stuart Mitchell

A vivacious working mother. A motivated college athlete. A career-minded dad and avid runner. An energetic father and professional soccer referee. They differ in age, gender, athleticism and careers, yet each was stunned by a lung cancer diagnosis. Today, the four lung cancer survivors take every opportunity to right misperceptions about it being only a “smoker’s disease” and use their voices to advocate for others who are impacted by the number one cancer killer worldwide. They’ve joined leading lung cancer advocacy groups, CancerCare and Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, to bring their voices to Your Cancer Game Plan, an awareness…

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New Campaign Highlights the Unacceptable Face of Emergency Care

Stuart Mitchell

Every year, the number of assaults against ambulance staff increases. In 2016/17 more than 250 physical assaults were recorded against staff from the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST) – an increase of 10 per cent from the previous year. The Trust has launched Don’t Choose to Abuse to highlight the problem of assaults on ambulance service staff and remind the public there is zero tolerance against any form of abuse against emergency workers. Whilst this is a small proportion of the thousands of calls the ambulance service…

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Wells Fargo Launches Holiday Food Bank Program With $5 Million Donation to United Way

Stuart Mitchell

Wells Fargo & Company today announced the launch of the Wells Fargo Holiday Food Bank program to make more meals possible in communities this holiday season. Working with United Way Worldwide to create a long-term, high impact program that will support hunger-related causes in our local communities, Wells Fargo donated an additional $5 million grant to the United Way in support of this effort. According to a recent Wells Fargo study 1, 83 percent of people are more likely to donate food this season if they could do it at…

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Stephen Fry calls on public to share poignant dementia film this Christmas

Stuart Mitchell

Actor, broadcaster and activist Stephen Fry is calling on the public to back dementia research again this Christmas after Alzheimer’s Research UK re-launches its award-winning Santa Forgot animation. Fry, who provided the voiceover for the original film, has penned a blog for the charity giving his backing to the campaign and describing his hope that future generations “will only be reading about Alzheimer’s and not experiencing it”. In a year where dementia has become the UK’s leading cause of death for the first time, he calls on the public to…

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