Yahoo! Joins with Old Navy to Raise Funds and Awareness for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation through Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Auctions and Yahoo! Greetings Over 100 Celebrities including Julia Roberts, Ashley Judd, Sean Hayes, Natalie Portman, Seth Green, George Lucas, Cindy Crawford, Gillian Anderson, Alex Kingston, Carrie Donavan, Michelle Kwan, Sugar Ray Leonard and Al Roker, Share in "Hope For The Holidays"™ SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Nov. 1, 2000 -- In keeping with the spirit of the holiday season, Yahoo! has joined with Old Navy to develop an exclusive celebrity card program to provide millions of consumers with a way to give back this holiday season. Starting today, consumers can purchase, send and collect holiday greeting cards that are hand-illustrated and signed by dozens of well-known celebrities including Julia Roberts, Cindy Crawford, George Lucas, Ashley Judd and more. Offered as both print and electronic greetings, the cards are part of Hope For The Holidays (http://hope.yahoo.com), a program created by Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) and Old Navy (http://oldnavy.com), to raise funds and awareness for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (http://www.pedaids.org). Boxed-sets of assorted Hope For The Holidays cards are available at select Old Navy locations and through the Old Navy online store at Yahoo!â Shopping (http://shopping.yahoo.com). In addition, electronic versions of Hope For The Holidays cards from more than 100 film, sports, music and television celebrities are available through Yahoo! Greetings (http://greetings.yahoo.com), to be sent online free of charge to family and friends. Beginning on Dec. 1, the original artwork for the Hope For The Holidays cards will be placed for bid on Yahoo! Auctions (http://auctions.yahoo.com), with 100 percent of all funds raised directed to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. "Yahoo! is pleased to be joining with Old Navy and dozens of celebrity supporters to raise awareness and funds for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation," said David Filo, co-founder and Chief Yahoo, Yahoo! Inc. "The pandemic of AIDS is growing. Every day more than 1,800 infants are newly infected with HIV. With this year's Hope For The Holidays program, we hope to harness the global reach of the Internet through Yahoo!'s commerce and communications services to help make a difference for children living with HIV and AIDS worldwide."
"Children infected with HIV face different obstacles to staying well than adults do. With fewer anti-HIV drugs available for children-especially those under 13 years-it is critical that we continue to raise awareness and funds that keep children at the forefront of medical breakthroughs," said Susie Zeegan, co-founder of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. "We are thrilled to be teaming with Yahoo! and Old Navy to extend the reach of our mission and to provide consumers around the world with an avenue to support the work of the Foundation, by choosing this holiday season to give hope." "Old Navy feels privileged to be a part of Hope For The Holidays, along with Yahoo!, celebrity supporters and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation," said Jenny Ming, president, Old Navy. "We hope that our combined efforts will make a difference not only in the pediatric AIDS research that is currently underway, but especially to the thousands of children who are fighting this terrible disease." Three Ways to Give and Receive Created to raise awareness of pediatric AIDS and generate contributions for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Hope For The Holidays will be featured on Yahoo! (http://www.yahoo.com) beginning today and running through Jan. 1, 2000. Through the Hope For The Holidays effort, people using Yahoo! can: Buy Hope For The Holidays greeting cards on Yahoo! Shopping-Beginning today, the Old Navy store on Yahoo! Shopping (http://shopping.yahoo.com) features printed sets of celebrity-designed Hope For The Holidays cards. Additionally, boxed sets of celebrity cards will be available for $10.00 beginning Nov. 6 in select Old Navy locations in New York (NY), Long Island (NY), Chicago (IL), Bloomington (Mall of America, MN), Cherry Hill, (NJ), Seattle (WA), Tuckwila (WA), San Francisco (CA), and Pasedena (CA). Bid on original Hope For The Holidays artwork on Yahoo! Auctions-Launching December 1, 2000 Yahoo! Auctions (http://auctions.yahoo.com) will feature an online auction of the original Hope For The Holidays artwork, created by participating celebrities. All proceeds from the auctions will benefit the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Send Hope For The Holidays cards electronically through Yahoo! Greetings-Throughout the holiday season, Yahoo! Greetings (http://greetings.yahoo.com) offers free electronic versions of the Hope For The Holidays cards. Each card contains an AIDS prevention message and a link to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation Web site (http://www.pedaids.org).
Shop, Send and Bid Yahoo! Shopping, recently ranked the No. 1 portal shopping site on the Web by Nielsen/NetRatings, and Yahoo! Auctions, the fastest growing, globally-branded free auction site on the Internet, are part of Yahoo!'s comprehensive suite of commerce services, which also includes Yahoo! Store, Yahoo! Classifieds and Yahoo! Travel. During the first nine months of 2000, Yahoo! directly enabled more than $3 billion of transactions on its commerce platform. Yahoo! Shopping is the only place consumers need to go to find, compare and buy almost anything online. Consumers can shop for items from thousands of merchants in 20 retail categories. Yahoo! Shopping also has convenient features, such as Yahoo! Wallet and Express Checkout, that make online shopping fast and easy. Yahoo! Auctions operates in 16 countries and 11 languages, giving consumers access to the unique and antique through its ever-expanding world of collectables. Launched in September of 1998, Yahoo! Auctions offers more than three million items in categories that include coins, autos and sports memorabilia, as well as extraordinary items found through unique charity, featured and merchant auctions. Yahoo! Greetings offers one of the widest selections of greeting cards on the Internet and is part of Yahoo!'s comprehensive suite of communications services. Yahoo! Greetings is available in 18 countries around the world. From instant messaging, online photo albums, free e-mail and voice chat to address books, calendars, and personal file storage, Yahoo!'s communications services aim to give users everything they need in a centralized online location to communicate and organize their lives via the Web. About the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation was founded in 1988 by Elizabeth Glaser, Susan DeLaurentis and Susie Zeegen, after Elizabeth Glaser and her husband, Paul, discovered that she, their daughter Ariel and son Jake were all HIV-infected. What began as a local grass-roots effort 12 years ago, is now the leading national non-profit organization dedicated to critical pediatric AIDS research. The Foundation's mission is to identify, fund and conduct research that will lead to better treatments and prevention of HIV infection in infants and children, to reduce and prevent HIV transmission from mother to child, and to accelerate the discovery of new treatments for other serious life-threatening pediatric diseases. About Old Navy Old Navy has great clothes at great prices for adults, kids, and baby. Shop at more than 600 locations in the U.S., including flagships in San Francisco, Manhattan, Chicago, and Seattle. To shop on-line, or to find the nearest store, click on oldnavy.com. About Yahoo! Yahoo! Inc. is a global Internet communications, commerce and media company that offers a comprehensive branded network of services to more than 166 million individuals each month worldwide. As the first online navigational guide to the Web, www.yahoo.com is the leading guide in terms of traffic, advertising, household and business user reach, and is one of the most recognized brands associated with the Internet. The company also provides online business services designed to enhance the Web presence of Yahoo!'s clients, including audio and video streaming, store hosting and management, and Web site tools and services. The company's global Web network includes 24 World properties. Yahoo! has offices in Europe, the Asia Pacific, Latin America, Canada and the United States, and is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. # # #