OneDown.org $1B Raised for Cancer

Wren Collective, OneDown, OHSU
2015
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Nike’s Phil Knight offered OHSU a deal: if they could raise $500 million for cancer research, he would match it with $500 million for a total of $1 billion going towards OHSU’s cancer research efforts. And they did it.

Overview

Our friends at Wren Collective in Portland invited us out to the event to provide a large LED wall, live event iMag/coverage, and all the other live video components.

The event culminated with the toppling of a 10,000-piece domino exhibit, symbolizing added ammunition in the war on cancer.

Big thanks to Stageworks for providing the LED wall and Guerilla Audio for the sound system.

Press

Nike co-founder and chairman Phil Knight is donating $500 million to cancer research after Oregon Health & Science University met his earlier challenge to raise the same amount, the university has announced.

“These last 22 months have shown what is possible when people of vision focus on a single goal,” Knight said in a statement.

Together, the $1 billion from Knight and OHSU will be used to create the first large-scale program to overhaul early detection of lethal cancers and will help fast-track recruitment of 250 to 300 scientists to launch such an initiative. That includes bringing on about 25 of the world’s top researchers, OHSU said.

– Fortune Magazine