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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.

Please consider telling others about our good works.  Raising public awareness about diabetes is important – but so is letting others know about the millions of people with diabetes who cannot afford their insulin and supplies — people that iPump helps every single day.  Like most nonprofits, the recession has hit us hard in the budget department.  We have vrey few cash donors and need them to sustain our operations.

Here are some ideas – if you cannot contribute financially – but want to get involved:

Vote for Us to Win $10,000 cash donation from Christie Cookies (through October 31, 2009). It only takes a moment of your time to help us win $10,000 by visiting visit Christie Cookies, a company sponsoring a $25,000 cash giveaway to the top voted-for charities.  Scroll down their long list of charities to find iPump.org, Inc. and vote! No registration or purchase is necessary.  We only need about 3,000 votes right now to take the lead.  Please, help!

Give us Positive Reviews Online at:

• Via our blog, with a comment.
• Go to GuideStar.org. Search for iPump’s listing using our EIN# 20-5099075 (or iPump.org, Inc., Upland, CA). And write a favorable review about us!
• GreatNonprofits: Write a positive review of iPump on GreatNonprofits.
• Request that iPump be reviewed for consideration for inclusion on Charity Navigator. Become a registered user of the site (it is free). Select “Suggest a Charity” in the “Contact Us” page and ask for iPump,org, Inc., Upland, CA be considered. You can follow the status of your request(s) by clicking on “My Charities” followed by ”My Requests.” Log in or Register Now!

Please read our list of how to contact major news media, including CNN, Oprah, People, LA Times, NY Times, and more.  Nominate us as a hero organization or write and tell others about us!  How to Contact the Media

We sincerely thank you for your support and efforts in helping us save lives until there is a cure for diabetes.

With gratitude,

the iPump Board of Directors

Many donors are now struggling on their own and can no longer afford to send cash donations.  But you can help us for free!  Here are some ways that will cost you nothing that can add up to possible funding for iPump:

It only takes a moment of your time to help us win $10,000 by visiting visit Christie Cookies, a company sponsoring a $25,000 cash giveaway to the top voted-for charities.  Scroll down their long list of charities to find iPump.org, Inc. and vote!

Go to GuideStar.org. Search for iPump’s record using our EIN# 20-5099075. Write a favorable review about us!

Use Goodsearch.com and Goodshop.com when you use the Internet. There is no cost to you at all and when you select iPump.org as your charity of choice you can raise money for us simply by surfing the net.

Tell your employer about iPump.  Because we are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit we can get matching grants for anyone else who donates through your employer or your employer can simply set up an employee gift giving program!

Email Us with a thank you note we can post on our blog — or visit our blog yourself to add a comment note of thanks and tell others how we helped you. While donors give without expecting anything in return it is always nice for them to be able to read personal notes from people that their contributions helped.

Tell The Media About Us! Contact People, Oprah, newspapers, TV stations, etc. and tell them about iPump … here’s contact information to major news sources and TV shows to make it easier!

Use eBay Mission Fish to Boost eBay Sales and Raise Money for iPump

Mission Fish is a nonprofit that helps you support your other favorite nonprofit causes — like iPump — when selling items on eBay.  Mission Fish is the exclusive charity solution provider for eBay Giving Works, and a service of the Points of Light Foundation.

Read More About Mission Fish/eBay.

Please choose iPump.org, Inc.!

Visit iGive.com. Select iPump.org, Inc. using the keyword charity search button as the charity you wish to shop for. Shop as your normally would from their long list of participating online merchants and a percentage of sales is donated to our cause.

There are now more than 700 merchants participating (see list) including iTunes store, clothing stores, flower shops, jewelry, gifts, office supplies, and so much more. Shop QVC, eBay, Best Buy, Overstock.com, Home Depot, Land’s End and hundreds more places just as you normally would and you will get great deals and be helping to save the lives of people with diabetes!

And, of course … Volunteer! See Volunteer Opportunities

Find more videos like this on TuDiabetes – A Community for People Touched by Diabetes

(or How NOT to be The Grinch)

In this podcast, we talk about two options to deal with your excess supplies of insulin that is still good to use, so that it doesn’t get wasted.

1) iPump.org: This is a nonprofit whose mission is to provide critical, temporary financial assistance and free supplies to diabetics in need of all ages throughout the United States. They accomplish this through donations from those of use who may have spare supplies sitting around.

(In the interest of full disclosure, I am a member of the board of iPump.org since May 2008.)

2) Insulin For Life: they collect excess unused insulin vials that can still be used and distribute them throughout developing countries in coordination with local centers and International Diabetes Federation’s “Life For a Child” program.

This page lists their collection centers where you can mail your insulin. Also, for members living outside the US, this another place you can send your excess supplies (specially strips).

If you have spare diabetes supplies to donate it is more important us that you simply do donate your diabetes supplies — not where you donate them. To help make donating easier for you we now list other organizations that take donations of diabetes supplies, syringes, insulin, insulin pump supplies, and insulin pumps, and in some cases diabetes medication donations.

Please give so others can live…

California

Samaritan House Free Clinic
114 5th Avenue
Redwood City, CA  94063

Contact:  Gracie Medina, Clinic Coordinator

Phone:  650-839-1447

Email:  gracie@samaritanhouse.com

Website:  www.SamaritanHouse.com

Tax receipt for donations?   Yes.

Information supplied by this organization – We are a nonprofit free clinic in Redwood City, California.

• Syringes
• Lancets and Lancing Devices
• Alcohol Pads
• Sharps Containers
• Insulin (only unopened and not expired
• Oral Medications (only unopened and not expired)

We appreciate donations of diabetes supplies as listed above, however, we do not need glucometers, test strips, or insulin pumps.

Disclaimer:  We give other organizations that provide assistance to those in need free listing on our website. We believe that by offering you other options to donate diabetes supplies more people in need will be helped.   We strongly encourage you to contact the organizations in our listing prior to making your donation.   We are not responsible for any claims or misinformation given by organizations on this page or through any of their contact information.