Julie

New Online Shop

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 […]

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We’re a charity!

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

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National Volunteer Week

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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Driving Awareness

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

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World Cancer Day 2022

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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An introduction

  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

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