STAND UP TO CANCER TEAMS UP WITH eBay GIVING WORKS FOR SPECIAL ONLINE CHARITY AUCTION

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Bid on One of A Kind Experiences and Celebrity Meet and Greets in Movies, Music, TV, Radio, Sports & Broadway! 

Big Ticket Auctions Include

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn

Set Visit,

Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark

Opening Night Package with

Bono & The Edge

, Flight with

Richard Branson

, Shooting Hoops with

NBA

Star, and More!   

LOS ANGELES, CA, SEPTEMBER 7, 2010 –Stand Up To Cancer (

www.standup2cancer.org

) is once again joining forces with eBay Giving Works to offer incredible charity auction experience packages in Film, Television, Music, Broadway and Sports that will raise funds for innovative cancer research.

The Stand Up To Cancer eBay Charity Auction will open on September 7, 2010 at 7pm EST and come to a close on September 17, 2010 at 7pm EST.

Bidders will find an array of exciting auction packages and items to bid on with 100% of the proceeds going directly to Stand Up To Cancer. To bid visit

www.ebay.com/standuptocancer

The charity auction leads into the second landmark Stand Up To Cancer One-Hour Event that will broadcast simultaneously across ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC and a host of cable channels on September 10, 2010 (8PM EST & PST / 7PM CT).

The featured items on the Stand Up To Cancer eBay Charity Auction include:

The charity auction is being managed on eBay.com by Auction Cause, a premier online auction management agency specializing in high-profile design, strategy, and cause marketing for celebrities, corporations and nonprofits worldwide. 

About eBay 

Founded in 1995 in San Jose, Calif., eBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY) connects hundreds of millions of buyers and sellers globally on a daily basis through eBay, the world's largest online marketplace, and PayPal, which enables individuals and businesses to securely, easily and quickly send and receive online payments. We also reach millions through specialized marketplaces such as StubHub, the world's largest ticket marketplace, and eBay Classifieds sites, which together have a presence in more than 1,000 cities around the world. For more information about the company and our global portfolio of online brands, visit

www.ebayinc.com

. 

About the Stand Up To Cancer Initiative

Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) – a program of the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), a 501(c)(3) charitable organization – raises funds to hasten the pace of groundbreaking translational research that can get new therapies to patients quickly and save lives. In the fall of 2007, a group of women who have been profoundly affected by cancer began working together to marshal the resources of the media and entertainment industries in the fight against it.

Stand Up To Cancer will return to primetime TV on September 10, 2010, at 8PM EST & PST / 7PM CT. The one-hour fundraising event will be simulcast live and commercial-free on ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, Bio, Current TV, Discovery Health, E!, G4, HBO, HBO Latino, MLB Network, mun2, Showtime, Smithsonian Channel, The Style Network, TV One and VH1.

The SU2C founding members includeLaura Ziskin, executive producer of the Sept. 5, 2008 broadcast and the upcoming one, who is a cancer survivor;Sherry Lansing, chairperson of the Entertainment Industry Foundation’s Board of Directors and founder of the Sherry Lansing Foundation; EIF President and CEOLisa Paulsen;Katie Couric;EIF Senior Vice PresidentKathleen Lobb;Rusty RobertsonandSue Schwartzof the Robertson Schwartz Agency; nonprofit executiveEllen Ziffren;andNoreen Fraser, founder of the Noreen Fraser Foundation (NFF) and a cancer survivor. SU2C was formally launched on May 27, 2008. 

Major League Baseballwas the founding donor to contribute to Stand Up To Cancer. Other major SU2C supporters includeSidney Kimmel, the country’s largest individual supporter of cancer research;Amgen, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, The Gateway for Cancer Research Foundation, GlaxoSmithKline, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Wallis Annenberg & The Annenberg Foundation, Alliance for Global Good, Milken Family Foundation, Philips Electronics, Steve Tisch, The Island Def Jam Music Group, Comcastand many others. SU2C major media partners includeAOL, Bonnier Corporation, Condé Nast Media Group, Costco Connections, eBay Inc., Facebook, Hearst Corporation, iTunes, MySpace, Rodale, Inc., Los Angeles Times, Martha Stewart Living, Meredith Corporation, Time Inc., Twitter, VEVOandYouTube.

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