Just six days remain until our second Walk For a Cure with JDRF. We jumped into fundraising last year with the hopes of raising just a few hundred dollars. We set our fundraising goal at $1,000 thinking we were reaching for the stars. We blew that goal away and raised almost $4,200 for diabetes research in just a few weeks! Caitlin was the top individual fundraiser in Central Mass and was awarded the Golden Sneaker award for fundraising excellence. Not bad for our first year out:)
JDRF is the leading global organization funding type 1 diabetes (T1D) research. JDRF's goal is to progressively remove the impact of T1D from people's lives until we achieve a world without T1D. JDRF collaborates with a wide spectrum of partners and is the only organization with the scientific resources, regulatory influence, and a working plan to better treat, prevent, and eventually cure T1D.
As the largest charitable supporter of T1D research, JDRF is currently sponsoring $568 million in scientific research in 17 countries. In 2012 alone, JDRF provided more than $110 million to T1D research.
Our successful fundraising would not be possible without people like you: our friends, family, and co-workers who have been so supportive through this crazy journey we've embarked upon. Your kind words, asking how Caitlin is doing, asking how we are doing, have more of an impact than you can imagine.
We walk on Sunday to help raise money and awareness for:
- the 3,000,000 people living with T1D in the US
- the 15,000 children diagnosed with T1D in the US each year
- the 15,000 adults diagnosed with T1D in the US each year
We walk on Sunday for Caitlin.
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