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Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009
By
Marie Davis, Executive Director, JDRF Metro Saint Louis/Greater Missouri
Chapter
In
1940, there were 15,000 non-profits in the United States. Today, the Juvenile
Diabetes Research Foundation is one of an estimated 1.5 million.
When it comes
to funding research to find a cure, our only competition is a tight economy.
Your
donation will make a dramatic impact as JDRF moves life-altering research
from the lab and into human clinical trials. Typically, more than 85
percent of JDRF’s expenditures directly support research and research-related
education.
Type
1 diabetes is a disease that strikes children suddenly and requires multiple
injections of insulin daily or a continuous infusion of insulin
through a pump.
A
soft economy means working harder to achieve success. We’ll be bigger
and stronger than at any time in recent history. Now is not the time to lose
sight of our goal: A cure for type 1 diabetes and its complications.
We
must accelerate our support of the JDRF mission to find a cure. Let’s
make this year’s Walk to Cure Diabetes our biggest and best ever. See
you Sunday, Oct. 4, in Forest Park. A cure is just steps away.
