United Nations Foundation

This is a Charity Miles fundraiser for the charity The Michael J. Fox Foundation. Please show your support!

We are 13-year old boys who created and run The Swish, an all-sports podcast and Instagram account. 

We are both passionate about sports. We love to play, watch and discuss all sports. We began The Swish last Spring at the start of the pandemic as a way to keep ourselves busy with so much time at home as well as to raise money for Covid-19 relief from friends and family and others who were interested in listening  to our podcast. We have raised over $10,000 to benefit the United Nations Foundation, Inc, (UN Foundation and UNF) COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for WHO, but we want to do more!

It's hard to believe that almost a year later, life still isn't back to normal. We attend school through a hybrid model, in school 2-3 days a week and remote 2-3 days a week. Our basketball season has been canceled and our baseball season was much different then prior seasons. We are unable to attend games as fans to cheer on our favorite teams.

Both of our Bar Mitzvahs are now quickly approaching and it has become clear that we won't be able to celebrate in the way that we had imagined, but as a result, the importance and meaning of a becoming a Bar Mitzvah has been shifted into greater focus. As we begin to think about our Mitzvah projects, we knew that we could use our podcast platform to raise even more money for Covid-19 relief. 

We are all affected by the growing COVID-19 pandemic. It's an unprecedented health challenge and the world has never faced a crisis like this before. The pandemic is impacting communities everywhere. It's never been more urgent to support the global response, led by the World Health Organization (WHO). 

Donations support WHO's work to track and understand the spread of the virus; to ensure patients get the care they need and frontline workers get the essential supplies and information; to accelerate research of new treatments for all who need them; and to accelerate dissemination of the newly approved vaccine, a well as research and development of a vaccine for kids like us. 

Want to join us in making a difference? Any donation will help make an impact and no amount is too small. 

We want to go back to school full-time, back to playing with our friends and most of all, back to playing and watching the sports we love. 

Thanks in advance, Together we can hopefully change lives. 

Jake and Jake

Want to join me in making a difference? I'm raising money to benefit United Nations Foundation, Inc. (UN Foundation, and UNF), and any donation will help make an impact. Thanks in advance for your contribution to this cause that means so much to me.

The UNF is focusing its resources on tackling the COVID-19 outbreak through the World Health Organization's COVID-19 Relief fund.

Treatment for HIV consists of antiretrovirals (ARVs), a type of medication that stops the virus from replicating within the body and helps prevent the breakdown of the immune system. ARVs have another benefit: in addition to treatment, they also help prevent the transmission of the virus. Studies have shown that people on ARV therapy reduce their chances of transmitting the virus by 97 percent.
Without ARVs an HIV positive mother can have up to a 45% chance of transmitting the virus to her unborn child, but when that same mother receives properly administered treatment during pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding, the rate of transmission can be reduced to less than 5%. While there have been significant reductions in the spread and transmission of HIV, there are still over 600 babies being born every day with a preventable virus. We must act now to get that number close to zero.

This is a Charity Miles fundraiser for The Michael J. Fox Foundation. Please show your support!

This is a Charity Miles fundraiser for The Michael J. Fox Foundation. Please show your support!

This is a Charity Miles fundraiser for The Michael J. Fox Foundation. Please show your support!

This is a Charity Miles fundraiser for charity The Michael J. Fox Foundation. Please show your support!

This is a Charity Miles fundraiser for the charity The Michael J. Fox Foundation. Please show your support!

This is a Charity Miles fundraiser for the charity The Michael J. Fox Foundation. Please show your support!