The Survivors Club
| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Founded | January, 2009 |
| Headquarters | Los Angeles, USA |
| Key people | Ben Sherwood, Founder and Chief Executive Officer |
| Slogan(s) | The Place for Surviving and Thriving |
| Website | thesurvivorsclub.org |
| Type of site | medical and information and social networking |
| Launched | 2015 |
| Current status | active |
NOTE: The Survivors Club Interactive, Inc. that was founded by Ben Sherwood in Jan 2009 no longer uses the URL http://www.thesurvivorsclub.org. The URL is now a resource regarding medical issues.
- THE FOLLOWING INFO & REFERENCES ARE OBSOLETE:
The Survivors Club is an American online resource center and social networking website that provides information and support for people confronting life-changing adversity.[1][2] The site offers guides, tools and support circles for people facing medical, financial and family crises. The web site is divided into several sections devoted to different categories of everyday life in which people most often face serious adversity. Each section—health, money, family and extreme—offers real-life survivor stories, expert guides to different crises, and links to reliable coping resources. As of May 2009, TheSurvivorsClub.org offers guides on more than 100 topics including unemployment, foreclosure,[3] depression, alcoholism, breast cancer, divorce and bereavement.
The Survivors Club site is free for all users. Its content is reviewed by an independent advisory group to ensure accuracy.[4]
The Survivors Club Interactive, Inc. was founded by Ben Sherwood in January 2009 in Los Angeles, Calif.[5] The company is a social enterprise funded by advertising and sponsorships with a portion of earnings going to causes that support survivorship.[4]
In August 2010, The Survivors Club Website relaunched as part of the Hearst Digital Network, a division of the Hearst Corporation.[6]
Sherwood is an author and journalist who wrote The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life, published in January 2009 by Grand Central Publishing,[7] an imprint of Hachette Book Group. The book became a New York Times bestseller[8] and is being published around the world. Michael Joseph,an imprint of Penguin, published The Survivors Club in Britain in June 2009.
Sherwood is a former executive producer of ABC's Good Morning America[9] with Diane Sawyer, Charles Gibson and Robin Roberts and senior broadcast producer of NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. He founded The Survivors Club after an ABC News colleague – James Bogdanoff – died of esophageal cancer.[10] Sherwood's mother – Dorothy Sherwood - was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in October 1999 and is a ten-year survivor of the disease.
References
- ↑ http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2009/05/07/news_living/health/3ee3e9dc10f6968e862575ad006fc989.txt
- ↑ http://incaseofemergencyblog.com/2009/02/13/new-book-the-survivors-club/
- ↑ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29805845/
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 http://www.thesurvivorsclub.org/about-tsc/who-we-are.html
- ↑ http://www.thesurvivorsclub.org/about-tsc/team.html
- ↑ "Hearst Magazines Digital Media Launches TheSurvivorsClub.org on its Proprietary Platform". PRLog. 2010-09-14. Retrieved 2010-09-16.
- ↑ http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/books_9780446580243.htm
- ↑ Schuessler, Jennifer. "Hardcover". The New York Times.
- ↑ Steinberg, Jacques (2005-05-30). "Duel at Sunrise; With New Confidence, 'Good Morning America' Closes In on 'Today'". The New York Times.
- ↑ http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=4365436&page=1