Promise Ball 2008 Sponsor Information

Generous corporate and individual support has been instrumental in the JDRF Promise Ball's success. We need your help to get closer to reaching our goal of finding a cure.

Why become a sponsor?

This is a first class event to support a top notch charity. Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) is rated by Forbes as one of the top 10 charities to support and has raised over $1.16 billion in diabetes research to date. More than 85% of expenditures support research and research related education so you can be assured that JDRF is very worthy of your time. You can read the Forbes article by visiting our press page.

JDRF Puts Donor Dollars to Work

• More than 85 percent of JDRF’s expenditures directly support research and research-related education.
• JDRF follows a business-world model that efficiently and effectively directs resources to research aimed at accelerating the pace of science leading to a cure.
• JDRF’s unique, results-oriented research management program funds science aimed at delivering cures and therapeutics to market, with emphasis on industry partnerships, strategic projects, drug discovery, and human clinical trials.

For more than three decades, JDRF, the largest charitable funder of type 1 diabetes research worldwide, has been renowned as a highly effective medical research organization with remarkable efficiency in directing donor dollars to its mission. Each year, JDRF’s unwavering commitment to finding and funding the best in diabetes research has earned it high marks from the scientific and business media and from charity watchdogs. "JDRF breaks funding bottlenecks," said Nature magazine, commending the foundation for its ability to move fast when scientific opportunities arise, and placing JDRF on its list of top biomedical research funders.

Join our Winning Team

Researchers forecast a cure for diabetes in the near future. Your help in funding critical research will move us closer to that goal. Everyone wants to be on a winning team. JDRF will win the fight against diabetes. It's just a matter of funding critical research to get us there. We invite you to join us on this path. For more details, read the JDRF "From Research to Reality" Case Statement.

Last year's Promise Ball raised $1.35 million - the most successful charity gala in Greater Hartford. We hope to make this another million dollar event when we honor this year's honoree - Pratt & Whitney President Steve Finger. Visit our press page to read what the press is saying about JDRF and our record-breaking 2007 JDRF Promise Ball.

Interested in sponsoring a table as a Research Partner? Perhaps a Non-Table or In-Kind sponsorship is better for your company? We also have Journal Advertising opportunites available. Click here to see a complete listing of each sponsorship level offered and what they include. Visit last year's sponsor page to view those who have committed themselves and their companies as partners with JDRF to find a cure for diabetes. We hope to see your company listed on our 2008 Sponsor Page.