/24-7PressRelease/ - Santa Rosa, CA, September 12, 2008 - Manly Hyundai (http://www.manlyhyundai.com/), a leading dealership for Hyundai in Santa Rosa, CA, has announced that an initiative started by a group of Hyundai dealerships in the New England area to help research pediatric cancer, has completed 10 years. Back in 1998, these local dealers started a small way of helping raise funds for the Jimmy Fund at Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The number of Hyundai dealerships all over the country involved in this effort is now over 800, with Manly Hyundai being one of them.
This group founded the Hyundai Hope on Wheels, in 2004. This year, this organization was recognized as an independent 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization. As of now, it has donated over $10 million to institutions all over the country towards helping children with cancer fight the disease.
Well-known cancer specialists such as Dr. Leonard Sender, Dr. David Poplack and Dr. Dan Wechsler serve on the Medical Advisory Board for Hope on Wheels.
This 10th anniversary celebration will have a Hope on Wheels Tour, which will visit 32 institutions nationwide and donate $1.6 million in support of higher study and further training of some doctors who are involved in pediatric cancer research. Such doctors will be called Hope on Wheels Scholars.
Hyundai, with contributions from its dealers, has donated six Hyundai Santa Fe vehicles to a few children's hospitals.
The Hope on Wheels Tour will begin its schedule by holding ceremonial donation events at 32 pediatric cancer research institutions and 30 local Light The Night Walks. These events will be implemented throughout the country in summer and fall. At all of these events, the children's lives and their treatment will be captured by pasting their color-filled handprints on a 2008 Hyundai Santa Fe vehicle.
Hope on Wheels and Hyundai dealers will also extend this program to support The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's pediatric cancer research programs during the 10th anniversary celebration.
Contact:
Manly Hyundai
2701 Corby Avenue
Santa Rosa, CA 94507
Ph: (707) 535-1184
Website: http://www.manlyhyundai.com/
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