A Letter from Jeffrey Brewer April 21-27, 2013, is National Volunteer Week, a time to celebrate and express our gratitude for all that volunteers do to make a difference in our communities. Of course at JDRF, every week is national volunteer week and, in that spirit, I thank you for all your dedication and support [...]
Do you know many people whose goal is to come in last place? Join the JDRF Ride to Cure Diabetes and meet dedicated Ride coaches like Tim St. Clair, who happily travels at the back of the pack to ensure every rider finishes. Tim, an attorney in Greenville, SC, was a recreational cyclist with no [...]
JDRF is dropping names—the name of its online community, to be specific. On November 14, World Diabetes Day, we announced that Juvenation, our online forum for the type 1 diabetes (T1D) community, had been relaunched as TypeOneNation. Part of JDRF’s new branding initiative, which began with the new organization logo that was unveiled in fall [...]
Camille Nash has told the story dozens, if not hundreds, of times, but for her, it never gets old. Over the course of more than a decade, in so many phone calls, emails, and personal meetings that she no longer keeps count, the Minnesota mother of three has become very familiar with her elected representatives [...]
On average, it takes a person 2,000 steps to walk one mile. A classic JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes travels a little more than three miles. Now here’s math we love: with 900,000 participants in last year’s JDRF Walk program, our walkers took nearly six million steps toward helping JDRF fund research to cure, better [...]
JDRF launched the first-ever Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) Day on November 1 as the kickoff to National Diabetes Awareness Month. As part of the T1Day campaign, JDRF used social media to share links and facts about diabetes as well as messages to urge followers to sign the JDRF petition in support of draft guidance from [...]
by Talley Henning Brown What do you get when you infuse the boundless energy of thousands of teenagers into a nationwide fundraising drive? In the case of JDRF and the Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA)—over $150,000. One of the largest student organizations in the country, HOSA was established in 1976 to promote career opportunities [...]
Monica Oxenreiter, of Pittsburgh, PA, is not only a teenager living with type 1 diabetes – she’s also the brains behind Zip the Cure (ZTC), a campaign that defines creative fundraising. The simple but powerful idea behind the program is to raise $100 in every zip code in the nation to fund type 1 diabetes [...]
