Allie Beatty (pictured) is a young woman with a mission. Combining her entrepreneurial spirit with a strong desire to help find a cure for Type 1 diabetes, the New York state resident founded the website Shop4Cures. The notion is delightfully simple: stores advertise on the site and provide coupons, discounts and product info. Shop4Cures then donates eighty percent of its advertising revenues to a range of nonprofit organizations that help fund research to cure diseases. In addition to helping fund diabetes research, profits from Shop4Cures will also go to organizations battling diseases such as cancer, heart disease and multiple sclerosis.

A Type 1 diabetic herself for over twenty years now, Beatty says she was inspired to start the site after hearing about a potential cure for diabetes and other autoimmune diseases that is currently under research. The problem was a lack of funding ($1.5 million, to be precise). That's when the Shop4Cures concept was born. Worth a look!