Zip it!
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 at 5:01AM When I was 15, I was playing Sega or Nintendo, watching TV, doing terrible in Spanish, and playing drums in band.
Pretty typical for a 15 year old.
Monica Oxenreiter is a 15 year old who has had type one diabetes since she was thirteen months old. She may have come up with one of the coolest fund raising ideas ever.
Not only is that a cool name but it is also a great plan. It works like this, her goal is to raise $100 in every zip code in the country and send it all to the JDRF. That seems pretty doable and simple. But there are over 40,000 zip codes in the US which would raise over $4 million for diabetes research! WOW!
Sounds cool right? So why not get involved! Here are some ways you can help!
Be a volunteer! People are needed to help out so if you are interested please visit www.zipthecure.com.
You can join the Facebook group!
Follow ZiptheCure on Twitter and ask your friends to follow them too.
If you would like to donate to the cause you can click here to donate via PayPal.
I hope you will donate, get involved, or at least spread the word. Monica is an awesome person and has some serious drive to put this all together. If we all get on board and help get the word out, we can help to raise some serious cash and hopefully Zip the Cure!
Reader Comments (5)
Neat idea!
What a brilliant idea! Really wish I could join in, but alas different country! Good luck with it!
Good luck to you Monica, and thanks George for sharing. What a great idea!
George-
thank you for sharing Zip it! What an awesome idea! Monica you rock!
Thanks for posting on this man. It is such a neat idea and it makes raising a ton of funds for a cure sound so easy.