More than USD $109 million has been pledged so far in connection with the star-studded September 5 Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) “roadblock” fundraising telecasts in the U.S. and Canada, it was announced today.
The funds pledged toward the SU2C scientific model will be directed to collaborative research utilizing SU2C’s scientific oversight in both the United States and Canada.
“We are enormously grateful to all of our donors and collaborators – from the individual television viewer to large organizations, both in the U.S. and Canada – whose contributions made the telecast a huge success,” said Lisa Paulsen, chief executive officer of the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), the 501c3 non-profit organization of which SU2C is a part, and one of the co-founders of SU2C. “All this support, as well as the entertainment community’s – both the stars who volunteered their talents and broadcast and cable networks donating air time – means so much to cancer patients who can benefit from SU2C’s research.”