This weekend a group of students raised roughly $600 for the Boston Marathon bombing victims.

“When the bombings happened on Monday, [April 15, 2013], I was just thinking about the idea to have a fundraiser. I never thought it would work out,” said Diane Fru, senior in psychology and organizer of the fundraiser.

Fru started planning the fundraiser on Tuesday, April 16, 2013, and was able to plan everything in four days.

“Putting something like this together in a four-day period is very challenging, especially with school and everything else that goes on during the week,” said Afifah Abdul Rahim, junior in animal science and co-organizer of the fundraiser.

The money will go to One Fund Boston, which was recently created as a central location for all donations for Boston Marathon victims.

The fundraiser was set up as a booth for the Veishea Village and 5k run on Saturday, April 20, where Fru and her team of organizers handed out gifts to those who donated.

“We decided to make ribbons by hand, and sew them together. The ribbons were blue, yellow and red; blue and yellow for the colors of the marathon and red and yellow for [ISU] colors. We also made buttons that said ‘Cyclones for Boston,’” Fru said.

Fru and her team, which included Maggie Loomis, Kristin Marshall, Ryan Pecinovsky and Abdul Rahim, wanted to sell the ribbons and buttons, but eventually decided to hand them out to people who donated.

“I think people appreciated that more because they were donating out of the goodness of their heart, not because they were buying something,” Fru said.

Many people who visited the booth on April 20 personally thanked Fru and her team for helping raise money for the cause.

“A lot of people came up to me at the table and said, ‘This is really great what you guys started,’ and that really made me feel like my hard work putting this together in four days was very worthwhile,” Fru said.

Jonathan Wickert, senior vice president and provost, was in attendance to show his support for the cause.

“We took a picture together, and he gave me his business card and said that I should email the picture to him, because he wants to scrapbook it,” Fru said. “I think the provost coming really said a lot.”

Fru’s passion for helping people made the event a success.

“My passion is really helping people, and just doing all that I can to have an impact on someone else’s life,” Fru said. “I just want [ISU] students to see that if they have a passion for something, and they have the drive and dedication, then they can do whatever they set their mind to.”