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Follow on Google News | Commcore Teams With Edelman And Wcg For ‘Conversation Against Cancer’ At ASCO Annual ConferenceCommCore Consulting Group, Edelman Public Relations, and WCG joined together during the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual conference in Chicago to help further cancer research
By: CommCore, Inc The campaign generated more than 10,000 tweets, easily meeting the $5,000 goal. The brainchild of Mark Bennett (WCG) and Geoff Curtis (Edelman), CommCore was delighted to join in. “This whole experience has been a terrific reminder of why we're in the healthcare business after all, said Jerry Doyle, Principal at CommCore. – “We’re in it to communicate important information - very often related to cancer - with the hope of improving awareness and survival, finding a cure, and delivering hope to those who find themselves out of options.” “We are pleased with the generosity of our friends and colleagues and we hope to grow this effort in the future. Now we are all thinking let’s do it again,” says Mark Bennett of WCG. The details: 3D: Started at 6pm on Friday, June 1 - coinciding with the unofficial ASCO12 tweet-up - we tracked tweets that include #ASCO12 for 72 hours, ending on Monday, June 4 at 6 p.m. 1H: 1 Hashtag - #ASCO12 5k: Our goal, raise up to $5,000 for Alex’s Lemonade Stand Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation was started by Alex Scott, who had been battling neuroblastoma, a type of childhood cancer. At age four, she began with a small lemonade stand outside her Connecticut home in an effort to fund research to help other children suffering from cancer. Alex lost her battle with cancer in 2004 at the age of 8, but her family and friends took up the cause and today, the foundation is a worldwide effort that has raised over a million dollars. About CommCore Consulting Group CommCore Consulting Group is a privately held specialty communications firm serving businesses, government agencies, and non-profit organizations around the world for the past 25 years. The company specializes in strategic and tactical communications development and implementation across all industry sectors, organizational crisis planning and response, executive media and presentation training,message development, C Suite leadership and staff internal communications skills development. CommCore is led by its president and CEO, Andrew D. Gilman – a lawyer, award-winning journalist, and co-author of the best-selling book Get To The Point. CommCore is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and has offices in New York City, Los Angeles, & Dallas. More information about the company is available at http://www.commcoreconsulting.com. End
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