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YOU ARE THE CHANGE Thank you for the opportunity to share the JDRF story with you and the opportunity to invite you to be a part of the revolutionary advancements being made today that will transform the lives of those living with type 1 diabetes tomorrow. JDRF is the leading global organization focused on type 1 diabetes (T1D) research. Driven by passionate, grass roots volun足teers connected to children, adolescents, and adults with this disease, JDRF is the largest charitable supporter of T1D research. The goal of JDRF is to improve the lives of every person affected by T1D by accelerating progress on the most promising opportunities for curing, better treating, and preventing the disease. JDRF collaborates with a wide spectrum of part足ners who share this goal.
Our Mission
Since its founding in 1970, JDRF has awarded more than $1.6 billion to T1D research, including $116 million in FY2011. JDRF has always been dedicated to maintaining the highest levels of efficiency to ensure that our time, resources, and dollars can achieve the greatest possible impact on the lives of people with T1D. We have a solid track record of funding research efficiently and effectively and year after year commit more than 80 percent of our expenditures directly to research and research-related education.
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As the leader of the type 1 diabetes community, JDRF unifies global efforts to cure, treat, and prevent T1D. We are committed, as we always have been, to delivering a cure for type 1 diabetes and its complications through the support of research. We are also focused on developing better treatments that transform the way people with T1D treat the disease today in order to help them live healthier lives now and in the future. Finally, JDRF focuses on prevention to keep future generations from getting T1D.
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Guided by our vision of cure, treat, and prevent, JDRF-funded research encompasses T1D at every life-stage: stopping or slowing its progression in people who are newly diagnosed; reversing it in those who have lived with the disease for years; avoiding or reversing complications; and preventing the disease in people at risk and in future generations.
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Research funded by JDRF has led to many landmark advances in type 1 diabetes science. We aggressively translate discoveries into treatments, drugs, and therapies that help people with T1D live healthier lives now, while we work toward a cure. Currently, JDRF is funding more than 53 human clinical trials, several of which are in the advanced stages of clinical testing needed before FDA approvals are required.
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Things are very exciting right now! However, while our accomplishments are vast and the rewards deliverable, there remains much to be done. Please join us as we plan for a future free of type 1 diabetes. Your partnership and investment in our future will have a significant and powerful impact on the lives of the millions of children and adults currently living with type 1 diabetes. You are the change! Regards and Appreciation,
Vicki Callegari, Executive Director JDRF Austin
3420 Executive Center Drive Suite 108 | Austin, TX 78731 Tel 512.343.0663 | Fax 512.343.0773 austin@jdrf.org | www.jdrf.org/austin R
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