Tykoon Announces Relationship with Max Cure Foundation

Max Cure will be featured on Tykoon's giving platform for families

2012-07-12

NEW YORK, NY, July 12, 2012 (Press-News.org) The Max Cure Foundation (www.maxcurefoundation.org) for pediatric cancer causes and Tykoon (www.tykoon.com), an internet platform enabling kids to develop stronger financial values, are proud to announce a partnership which will highlight Max Cure as a featured charity on Tykoon's charitable giving platform.

Member families of Tykoon will be able to allocate a portion of their kids' weekly allowance and make donations directly to Max Cure as a way to teach the importance of supporting important causes and the community. Max Cure will integrate Tykoon in their fundraising initiatives, featuring the platform through various events and activities.

"Having a relationship with the Max Cure Foundation, is an ideal way to help build our charitable giving experience. We look forward to working with them to help families and kids make a difference toward advancing pediatric cancer research," said Mark Bruinooge, CEO of Tykoon.

"The Tykoon platform teaches our children monetary values that they will use for the rest of their lives. We are proud to join forces with Tykoon and see a bright future ahead of us through our diligent efforts in helping families that need our support," said David Plotkin, Co-Founder of The Max Cure Foundation.

Tykoon is a financial services platform for kids that use real money and real experiences to help teach kids on how to earn, save, give and spend. Tykoon partners with parents to help families instill their own values around money. These experiences can help instill a strong work ethic, and empower kids to be confident and smart with money. Families use Tykoon's platform to manage chores, track allowance, set goals and make charitable donations. To sign up for Tykoon, please visit http://www.tykoon.com/sign_up

The Max Cure Foundation (MCF) is a 501(c)(3) public charity dedicated to advancing cures for pediatric cancers, funding the development of less toxic treatments for children with the disease and assisting low-income families battling cancer in their children. MCF strives to raise both awareness of the cause, as well as money for innovative research and for the "Roar Beyond Barriers" initiative, which is a family navigation system to provide low-income families certain necessities of life as they, with their children, fight to overcome cancer. MCF seeks to inspire children afflicted with cancer to face the disease with courage, hope and most important, bravery. For more information, please visit http://www.maxcurefoundation.org.

Media Contacts:

For Tykoon
Aine Byrne, Southard Communications
aine@southardinc.com, 212.777.2220
For Max Cure
MJ Pedone, Indra Public Relations
mj@indrapr.com, 212.292.4555

About Tykoon
Based in NYC and founded in 2010 by Doug Lebda (Lending Tree, IAC) and Mark Bruinooge (Bank of America, Seismic), Tykoon (www.tykoon.com) is a financial services platform for kids, using real money and real experiences to help educate kids on how to earn, save, give, and spend their finances. The kid-safe platform allows parents to digitally allocate their child's earned allowance and oversee their child's financial progress. By focusing on real earnings and real allocation of those earnings, Tykoon is building a money-smart world, one kid at a time

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