When Sadie relapsed in December 2023, she had her port put back in. She didn’t love that this was happening, on top of everything else. It was right before Christmas, she was missing out on a ton of fun holiday activities and she was feeling terribly. To help cheer her up and make the port […]
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When we first launched our website, over 3 years ago, we wanted to make it super easy for families to get their free shirts. At first, we had them fill in a form and we would choose 2 shirts of the appropriate size/gender and send it to them. But, we learned that the process of
A year or so ago, we were part of a Humber College Marketing program project where a class of students did a case study on Zippaport. They gave us a marketing plan and some really great ideas on how to raise the profile of our organization. One of the super fun ideas was a “Design
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Whew it’s been a while since we did a blog post but we’ve been doing incredibly important things. The biggest “thing” we’ve done is become a charity. Why does being a Charity matter? The biggest reason is that we are now able to issue Charitable Donation receipts – so you, as a Canadian taxpayer, can
April 24-30, 2022 is National Volunteer Week and because Zippaport is completely and utterly reliant on our volunteers, we’d like to take this opportunity to recognize and appreciate and gush over our incredible volunteers. Our sewists are a group of incredible women who work magic with their sewing machines. Over the past few months they
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Our 2022 goal is to distribute 1000 shirts across Canada. This feels like a BIG number, but we’re well on our way, having sent out 180 already this year and 50 more going out to hospitals this week! We’ve got shirts being sewn and photographed and packaged, and are optimistic that we can meet this
Guest Post by Catherine Druery In the first few days after my 3 and a half year old son Bear’s leukemia diagnosis, we met with a nurse from the IV access team. We had been told that a surgery to insert a port would be scheduled as soon as possible. I had a vague knowledge
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February 4, 2022 is World Cancer Day. What is World Cancer Day? It’s basically a globally recognized day to raise awareness about Cancer. Each year there is a theme, and this year it’s “Close the Care Gap”. From the WCD website: “We live in a time of awe-inspiring advancements in cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment, many
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Hi! My name is Julie and I am the founder of Zippaport. If you poke around our website, you can read about how we got started (coles notes: my daughter, Sadie, was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and we started making shirts to help other kids with their port access). While many people make