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We offer our facilities to accomodate group and organizational meetings.
In addition, we proudly support the following
organizations:
Dedicated to Finding a Cure
The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International is the world's
largest charitable funder and advocate of type 1 diabetes research. The
mission of JDRF is to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through
the support of research. Type 1 diabetes is a disease which strikes in
childhood, adolescence, or adulthood, but lasts a lifetime. It requires
multiple injections of insulin daily or a continuous infusion of insulin
through a pump. Insulin, however, is not a cure for diabetes, nor does it
prevent its eventual and devastating complications which may include kidney
failure, blindness, heart disease, stroke, and amputation.
Building Upon Research Successes
JDRF funding and leadership is associated with most major
scientific breakthroughs in type 1 diabetes research to date. In fact, JDRF
funds a major portion of all type 1 diabetes research worldwide, more than
any other charity. JDRF provided more than $137 million to diabetes research
in FY 2007, and is responsible for more than $1.16 billion in direct funding
since it was founded. Our research review process not only includes leading
research scientists from around the world, but lay reviewers who either have
type 1 diabetes or have family members with type 1 diabetes, ensuring that
JDRF funds research with the greatest impact throughout the world, leading
to results as soon as possible.
Moving Research from Bench to Bedside
JDRF is driven to be a leading catalyst for development science that
delivers therapeutics to improve the lives of people with diabetes in the
near term, ultimately leading to a cure. Working toward this goal, JDRF has
taken the lead in translating basic research breakthroughs into cure
therapies in such areas as restoring autoimmunity, preventing and reversing
complications, islet replacement, beta cell regeneration, and achieving
metabolic control. The Foundation creates multidisciplinary programs that
bring together diabetes researchers from both academic institutions and
industry to find a cure for diabetes and its complications.
Efficiently Organized for Successful Results
JDRF is structured on a business-world model that efficiently and
effectively directs resources to research aimed at finding a cure as soon as
possible. More than 85 percent of JDRF's expenditures directly support
research and research-related education. Because of its unwavering focus on
its mission to find a cure, JDRF annually receives top rankings from
independent sources that rate charitable giving. JDRF leverages its research
impact by partnering with and stimulating increased research spending on the
part of public and private medical organizations and other entities
throughout the world.
A Backbone of Dedicated and Active Volunteers
JDRF was founded in 1970 by the parents of children with type 1 diabetes. As
a result, JDRF volunteers have a personal connection to type 1 diabetes,
which translates into an unrelenting commitment to finding a cure. These
volunteers are the driving force behind more than 100 locations worldwide
that raise money and advocate for government spending for type 1 diabetes
research.
For more information, visit the JDRF Web site at
www.jdrf.org,
or call 800-533-CURE.
JANUARY 2008
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