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The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF) is the world’s largest charitable funder and advocate of type 1 diabetes research. Its mission is to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research. JDRF provided more than $123 million to diabetes research in FY 2006, and is responsible for more than $1 billion in direct funding since it was founded in 1970 by parents of children with type 1 (juvenile) diabetes. Nearly 85 percent of JDRF’s expenditures directly support research and research-related education. More than $40 million has been provided to Connecticut and Massachusetts research facilities via JDRF fundraising activities since 2000.

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.

News Release, February 7, 2008 Pratt & Whitney and UTC Executives Serving in Lead Roles for Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Gala...		Read the release
Press about 2007 JDRF Promise Ball...
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...		Read the article
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...		Read the article
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....		Read the release
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...."		Read the article
"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.
Additional information
Official Proclamation, State of CT, Governor M. Jodi Rell
From Research to Reality
Facts About JDRF
Research Funding Facts
JDRF General Diabetes Fact Sheet
Type 1 (Juvenile) Diabetes Factst

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.