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Nominate @ipumpcharity in #nonprofit for a Shorty Award.

If you have a Twitter account please nominate iPump for a Shorty Award to help us spread the word about how we help people with diabetes.  Last year tens of thousands of people with diabetes lost their jobs and insurance.  The need for assistance programs to help those struggling with the high cost of diabetes has never been greater.

Since 2006, iPump has shipped supplies to help more than 20,000 people – all with a full-time volunteer staff of one (we also have other volunteers kick in free labor from time to time and a dedicated volunteer Board of Directors.)  To continue to grow, we need to raise awareness and funding to hire staff to meet the demands of our thriving organization.

You can start by nominating us for a Shorty Award directly at http://shortyawards.com/ipumpcharity or simply tweet the phrase: I nominate @ipumpcharity for a Shorty Award in #nonprofit because… (and tweet why you are nominating us.)

Please ask others to help as well.

Thank you for your time and kind support.

Lahle Wolfe
Volunteer CEO, iPump, Inc.

The IRS allows us until February 2010 to provide tax receipts for 2009 donations. However, we understand that many people like to get an early start on taxes. We are working hard to get all tax receipts out no later than the first week in January 2010.

We appreciate your patience – iPump is an all-volunteer organization and we work as quickly as we can to keep our donors and clients happy!

UPDATE:  01/12/2010  All tax receipts have now been mailed.  If you have not received your tax receipt by next week please Email Us with the subject TAX RECEIPT.  We receive many donations that do not have any notes inside boxes and do our best to read return addresses from the outside of packages but it is not always possible to read a clear return address.  Also, we cannot nail receipts for shipments sent from UPS stores that do not show any other return address.

The following information has been excerpted from an email announcement from the World Diabetes Day USA Team to encourage all people with diabetes to participate in the Big Blue Test, today, November 14, 2009, at 2:00 PM in your own time zone.   Those of us with diabetes at iPump will be participating today!

Source: World Diabetes Day USA Team

“TAKE THE BIG BLUE TEST

At 2 pm your time, test your blood sugar, do 14 minutes of exercise, test again and share their results online. (If you are busy at 2 pm, then do it whenever you are free.)

Here’s how to participate:

1. Test your blood sugar.

2. Run, jog, walk the dog or do anything you’d normally do as part of your exercise routine for 14 minutes.

3. Test your blood sugar again.

4. Post your readings and what physical activity you did. If you have a camera, you can also add a photo of your reading(s) or you exercising.

5. If you have a Twitter account, you can also post your readings on Twitter (use the #bigbluetest hashtag) and link back to http://bigbluetest.org.

Places to report your blood sugars:

• http://tudiabetes.com/forum/topics/the-big-blue-test-on-world
• http://www.diabetesdaily.com/bigbluetest
• http://www.diabeticrockstar.com/page/world-diabetes-day
• http://bigbluetest.diabeticconnect.com/

… or at your favorite participating social network!”

Please read the following email sent it me.  The reason I am passing it along is that GreatNonprofits.org is an innovative and valuable tool where people can rate and research charities.  The thing that sets GreatNonprofits apart from the rest of the crowd is that you can add any charity to rate.  Other large charity databases require fees from nonprofits to be listed, or may only list nonprofits that take in millions of dollars in cash donations each year.  This means people cannot publicly rate tens of thousands of smaller charities.

If you want to vote for GreatNonprofits.org, please do.  If not, thank you for reading this post!

Best regards,

Lahle Wolfe
CEO, iPump

Dear Friends,

I have a favor to ask.  I’m the founder and CEO of GreatNonprofits.  With your help, GreatNonprofits has provided ratings and reviews to transform philanthropy and volunteering.  Today, GreatNonprofits and I are featured  on the front of HuffingtonPost as one of the top Game Changers in Philanthropy.

Currently we are #7.  Will you take a minute and vote for me and GreatNonprofits so that we are #1?   This award will bring recognition to these amazing nonprofits reviewed at GreatNonprofits.org (and also on GuideStar where the reviews are visible.)

So much of the effort has been from *you* and this award would be a credit to everyone who has participated in GreatNonprofits.

It takes just a minute and you can vote here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/29/huffpost-game-changers-wh_n_337128.html

Thanks for this and for being a part of this movement to transform and uplift giving and volunteering.

Sincerely,

Perla Ni
CEO GreatNonprofits
www.greatnonprofits.org

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