Proceeds benefit the
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
Dedicated to Finding a Cure
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) is the leader in setting the agenda for type 1 diabetes research worldwide, and 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 that strikes children and adults suddenly, 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, amputation, and pregnancy complications.
Building Upon Research Successes
JDRF funding and leadership is associated with most major scientific breakthroughs in type 1 research to date. In 2007, JDRF Canada provided $8 million to diabetes research. Worldwide, JDRF International provided more than $156 million to diabetes research in FY 2008, and is responsible for more than $1.3 billion in direct funding since it was founded. Our research review process includes leading international research scientists and, lay reviewers who either have type 1 diabetes or have family members with type 1 diabetes. This process ensures 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 a leading catalyst for development science that delivers treatments and cures to improve the lives of people with diabetes in the near term. Working toward this cure, JDRF has taken the lead in translating basic research breakthroughs into cure therapeutics in such areas as restoring autoimmunity, islet replacement, beta cell regeneration, preventing and reversing complications, 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. Our research priorities are focused on projects that are clinically impactful, proactively managed, and focus on therapeutics research & development.
Efficiently Organized for Successful Results
For over three decades, JDRF 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 the best in diabetes research has earned it high marks from the scientific and business media and from charity watch dogs. JDRF Canada expends 80 cents of each dollar to research and research-related education. Because of our unwavering focus on our mission to find a cure, JDRF annually receives top rankings from independent sources that rate charitable giving. JDRF actively manages research, driving science from discovery through the development and delivery to market of cures and therapeutics, with an emphasis on industry partnerships, drug discovery and human clinical trials.
A Backbone of Dedicated and Active Volunteers
JDRF Canada was founded in 1974 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 further information – please contact:
Randy Durovick, Fundraising Coordinator
P.O. Box 3924
Regina, SK S4P 3R8
306 – 543 – 5451
regina@jdrf.ca
www.jdrf.ca
