Stand Up To Cancer Opens Online Store with PAID, Inc. to Support
Cancer Research
LOS ANGELES & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--This is where the end of cancer begins? with the start of the New Year.
Just in time for the New Year, Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) is opening a
fully stocked online store
whose proceeds will support cancer research to bring new therapies to
patients faster.
?SU2C is an incredible organization, widely supported throughout the
entertainment industry. We at PAID are thrilled to join together with
the long list of dedicated celebrities and their fans in support of this
most important cause?
Stand Up To Cancer, the Entertainment
Industry Foundation's charitable initiative supporting
groundbreaking research aimed at getting new cancer treatments to
patients in an accelerated timeframe, is coordinating the store?s
management and fulfillment through PAID,
Inc. (OTCBB:PAYD) to offer consumers the opportunity to
purchase unique merchandise at www.standup2cancer.org
and help in the fight against cancer.
SU2C?s new online store offers dozens of items including handcrafted
items, musical artist-designed or -inspired jewelry, albums, SU2C-logoed
apparel, and more. From the exquisite STAR necklace designed for SU2C by
Jennifer Meyer and worn by celebrities like Jennifer Aniston, Kate
Bosworth and Miley Cyrus, to t-shirts and totes, consumers can Stand Up
To Cancer while getting unique gifts for family, friends or even
themselves.
?Gifts are that much more special if they speak to a cause close to the
recipients? hearts, which is why we are so thrilled to be working with
PAID, Inc. to offer a diverse range of items whose sale will directly
support the scientists working to end cancer,? said an SU2C
representative. ?PAID?s experience in both merchandising and the
entertainment industry is helping us develop and offer items with broad
appeal to generate the sales that will enable us to continue funding
important research.?
?SU2C is an incredible organization, widely supported throughout the
entertainment industry. We at PAID are thrilled to join together with
the long list of dedicated celebrities and their fans in support of this
most important cause,? said Keith Garde, president of PAID, Inc.
celebrity services. ?This is just the first step we?re taking with Stand
Up to Cancer. We look forward to bringing our expertise in website
technology merchandising and ecommerce to SU2C. It?s a natural extension
of the work we?ve been doing in supporting the celebrity-fan
relationship through online and social media marketing, celebrity fan
community development and consumer data management.?
Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) was created to save lives by accelerating
cancer research and bringing ground breaking new treatments to patients
faster. SU2C is a program of the Entertainment Industry Foundation
(EIF), a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, and was established in by a
group of media, entertainment and philanthropic leaders whose lives have
been affected by cancer in significant ways. The group includes Katie
Couric; the Entertainment Industry Foundation, represented by Board of
Directors Chairperson Sherry Lansing (Founder of the Sherry Lansing
Foundation), CEO Lisa Paulsen and Vice President Kathleen Lobb; Laura
Ziskin; the Noreen Fraser Foundation and its executive, Noreen Fraser;
Rusty Robertson and Sue Schwartz of the Robertson Schwartz Agency; and
nonprofit executive Ellen Ziffren. Both Ziskin and Fraser are cancer
survivors. For more information, visit http://www.standup2cancer.org.
About PAID, Inc.:
PAID, Inc., publicly traded under the ticker PAYD, is a one-stop brand
management and marketing resource for music, entertainment and sports
personalities and organizations, and offers AuctionInc?
online shipping calculation and shopping cart software employing its
patented technology to streamline ecommerce. Known for quality and
customer service, PAID offers turnkey online, mobile,
social media and traditional marketing campaigns, as well as
award-winning video
& film production, VIP
ticketing, web
site design, merchandising,
ecommerce and fan community management programs. More details are
available at www.PAID.com.
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