Curing Diabetes One Zip Code at a Time
This is the tag line of Zip The Cure, an online fund-raising campaign of Pittsburgh teenager Monica Oxenreiter. The idea is to raise $100 in donations to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) from each and every one of the 42,000 zip codes in the United States. One hundred dollars doesn’t sound like much from an area as large as a zip code, but as the saying goes “a hundred dollars here and a hundred dollars there, and pretty soon we’re talking about real money.” When all of the zip codes are represented by $100, $4.2 million will have been donated to the JDRF. That’s a lot of money for a great cause!
The campaign started in November 2009 and so far they have 147 zip codes sponsored. Well, actually, 148 now since I made a donation this morning. Check out their web site at www.ZipTheCure.com. They have a map of the United States so you can see what zip codes are already sponsored.
