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Monday, April 21, 2014

COMMUNITY: Eliza Video Goes Viral


A father's shot in the dark e-mail leads to a viral video that could save a little girl's life and cure a terminal illness once and for all! Glenn O'Neill's 4-year old daughter, Eliza, suffers from a terminal and rapidly degenerative disease, San Filippo Syndrome. In order to raise money for San Filippo research, he conducted a Google search on "how to make a viral video," that led him to Karen Cheng from Give it 100, who helped Mr. O'Neill get in contact with D.L. Cade from PetaPixel, and well known photographer Benjamin Von Wong, who came to stay with the O'Neill's for a week and created a video that garnered 44,000 Youtube views and over $70,000 in new donations in the first two days of launching http://www.savingeliza.com/. Many news agencies have picked up this story including the Huffington Post, NYDaily News, ABC.com Health, Daily Mail UK, Perez Hilton, Right This Minute, etc.