JDRF is the leader in research leading to a cure for type 1 diabetes in the world and is the largest charitable funder and advocate of diabetes science worldwide. Its mission is to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease that strikes children and adults suddenly, and can be fatal. Until a cure is found, people with type 1 test their blood sugar and give themselves insulin injections multiple times or use a pump – every day. Even with that intensive care, insulin is not a cure, nor does it prevent the disease’s eventual complications of kidney failure, blindness, heart disease, stroke, and amputation. Since 1970, JDRF has awarded more than $1.3 billion to diabetes research, including more than $100 million in 22 countries in FY2009.
Members of the press should contact Ellen Kellie or Bethany Spada at the Northern CT and Western MA Chapter office by calling (860) 470-0020.
See video news about JDRF's Artificial Pancreas Project...
On January 13, 2010, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation announced an innovative, non-exclusive partnership with Animas Corporation to develop an automated system to help people with type 1 diabetes better control their disease - the first step on the path to what would be among the most revolutionary advancements in treating type 1 diabetes: the development of an artificial pancreas, a fully automated system to dispense insulin to patients based on real-time changes in blood sugar levels.
On Monday, January 26, 2009 JDRF's Dr. Aaron Kowalski spoke about the evolution of diabetes treatment, the use of continuous glucose monitors and artificial pancreas technologies on the Martha Stewart Show.
Press about recent JDRF Promise Balls...
News Release, May 5, 2009
May 2nd Juvenile Diabetes Gala Draws Nearly 600 in Support of a Cure...
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News Release, May 5, 2008
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Achieves Second Consecutive $1 Million Gala...
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Fundraising Milestone, Hartford Business Journal
It was a night to remember. The local Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation reached the impossible dream; it topped an improbable fundraising goal of $1 million by $300,000 at its annual Promise Ball on May 5...
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Non-Profit Executive of the Year: Anthony Sisti, Hartford Business Journal
It has been five months since the local Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation shattered records when it raised $1.3 million at its annual Promise Ball. No other charity ball in greater Hartford has come within 10 percent of the $1 million mark...
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News Release, JDRF, May 10, 2007
Hartford, CT – Area fundraising records were shattered Saturday night at the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) Promise Ball at the Connecticut Convention Center, hosted by the North Central Connecticut and Western Massachusetts Chapter. Over $1.3 million was raised for diabetes research, surpassing what any other charitable organization has raised through one event in Greater Hartford....
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What the Press is saying about JDRF...
Awarded JDRF its highest rating, 4-stars, in June 2007, and praised the foundation
for "outperform[ing] the majority of nonprofits in America with respect
to fiscal responsibility. This 'exceptional' designation . . . differentiates JDRF
from its peers and demonstrates to the public it is worthy of their trust."
JDRF was awarded an efficiency rating of 92 out of 100 in Forbes Magazine’s most recent
annual charity ranking. The accompanying article called JDRF "...a tightly run organization
that puts almost every dollar spent to work curing disease...."
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"The foundation typically outperforms, in lobbying and fundraising, nearly every other interest group built around a particular disease."
For the ninth year in a row, JDRF was top ranked by the American Institute of Philanthropy in its most recent survey—the only national diabetes organization to AIP earn an "A" grade.
For more information about JDRF, please visit www.jdrf.org. For more information about the JDRF North Central CT and Western MA chapter, please visit www.jdrfctma.org.
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