Irreconcilable Differences - I'm Divorcing the ADA
The Lady will have the Lobster
Filed under: Type 1, Type 2, Childhood, Workman Onset, Research, Fundraisers, Support I'm the duchess and the Lobster is brought to us by the Juvenile Diabetes Evaluation Foundation. On Friday, December 1, 2006 there will be a Lobster Bash held in Babylon, NY. The event will obtain country at the Venetian Yacht Club. I would compatible to find 9 guests to assemble me. The table costs $1, 000, so it will fee $100 a person - the balance of $55 is fully excise deductible. I'll stipend for my ticket. I'm inviting anybody within a convenient distance to cement me. Come to the event, reconciled me, and acquaint me what's on your mind. Oh, and if none of that wets your whistle, maybe this will excite you: administer bar, silent auction, and dancing.
Wild ride: dirt bikers' 24 Hour Torture Test
Filed under: Type 1, Fundraisers A wild impel to raise process took place recently in California. Joshua (Josh) Summey's company of motocross riders rode their machines in the 2007 Dirt Rider 24 Period Torture Test. The team's supporters pledged donations for the American Diabetes Gathering for every mile the riders completed. And they covered a piece of miles: 277 to be exact. The notion was for the riders to complete their bit to fight Type 1 diabetes - Josh Summey is himself diabetic. Backers for the side were Moto XXX and Honda, along with Race Tech suspension and Akrapovic exhausts. The catastrophe was organised by Summey's body and Dirt Rider magazine.
ADA's new fundraiser: 1 day, 1 cause, 1 goal
Filed under: Type 1, Type 2, Fundraisers "1 day, 1 cause, 1 goal, " is the slogan assigned to the American Diabetes Association's (ADA) advanced fundraiser: "Step Out to Action Diabetes." The crowded annual deed is basically a retooled story of what the ADA used to bell "America's Carriage for Diabetes." The design is to mastery walks in two hundred American cities on individual days over the direction of a couple of weeks this forthcoming fall. So what's involved, you ask? It's a ten-mile walking succession designed to be easy sufficiently for about any fitness level. The twist: it requires some stair climbing. Philadelphia participants will climb ten staircases in landmark buildings, such as Philly's Conurbation Entry and the majestic front steps of the Philly Museum of Art (immortalized in the film Rocky ).
Spend New Year's Day with the Penguins
Filed under: Type 1, Type 2, Fundraisers With 2007 particular a lifetime away, there is embryonic age left to come up with some Virgin Year's resolutions if you haven't already. For many, Jan 1st represents a dewy initiation of sorts, an fair shake to inauguration their lives off contemporary all over again. For others, it simply represents a hangover and a pounding headache. But, for a very sporadic breed, it process swimming in 45 measure water, this year in efforts to raise boodle for diabetes research and education. Held by the Atlantic General Infirmary in Ocean City, Maryland, this year marks the 13th eternity 400-500 clan appropriate the plunge for this annual fundraiser.
Developer donates house profits to diabetes research
Filed under: Type 1, Diurnal News, Fundraisers The News-Record of Greensboro, North Carolina, reports on a community entrepreneur who's come up with a novel habit to up thrust almighty dollar for a commendable cause. Land developer Roy Carroll plans to donate the profits from one of his new houses to the Juvenile Diabetes Analysis Foundation (JDRF). Carroll, whose sixteen-year-old daughter has Type 1 diabetes, will construct the donation just as soon as the house is sold. All the facts and labour for the condominium will be donated. Carroll expects the abode to be finished in November and estimates it will sell for environing $168, 000. Generous? Yes.
Ford and Blistex donating to JDRF
Filed under: Type 1, Type 2, Daily News, Fundraisers We've all heard people say that "even donating a mini positive can cooperation a lot." True. Ideal true, in fact. Be that as it may, a donation ambition that can sometimes capture hundreds -- if not thousands -- of especial donations to reach can be helped enormously by the charity of enormous corporations. In one of the advanced examples of such generosity, the JDRF has teamed up with two exceeding companies, the Ford Motor Company/Hot Rods & Horsepower, LLC and Blistex, to raise way for diabetes research. For the former, a joint fund raising initiative by Ford and Hot Rods & Horsepower, 100 resident edition, 75th anniversary 1932 Dearborn Deuce roadsters will be manufactured for $200, 000 each.
Team Type 1 cyclists win Race Across America
Filed under: Type 1, Childhood, Exercise, Fundraisers I once owned a racing bike. I could lift that attractive white Bianchi with my little finger. I bought it in anticipation of knowledge and entering Drive The Rockies, a five interval cycle sojourn wrapped up Colorado in the summer of 1998. I am a sports nut, a rockclimber, a backpacker... but prior to Propel The Rockies, the longest cross-country cycling I ever did was a one-hour stretch in a mini-triathlon. My Ride the Rockies forbearance was unforgettable. A novice from Chicago flatlands, I had never biked more than 40 miles in one stretch. Suddenly I was averaging 65 miles a time over multiple mountain summits.
World Guy rolls giant rubber globe 416 miles for diabetes
Filed under: Type 1, Type 2, Fundraisers, Support, Personalities Hmm, another "walking for diabetes" fundraiser in the news. But, what's this? Here's a guy walking with a giant inflatable rubber globe. Novel, huh? Test gone the picture at right. Erik Bendl, aka "World Guy, " is walking 416 miles from his home in Louisville, Kentucky, all the system to Pittsburgh. The plan is to lift cash for the American Diabetes Society (ADA). Just as important, Bendl hopes to elevate awareness about the condition. Every step of the way, Bendl is rolling his eight-foot-tall existence too. Bendl got the area from a summer camp, whose staff had no application for it.
Bravo!
Filed under: Type 1, Type 2, Diet, Fundraisers, Support Bravo! Brands keep teamed-up with the Diabetes Research Foundation again in a fellowship that will maintenance raise funds for diabetes research. Here's what their doing: Bravo! Brands acquire expanded their already existing relationship with DRI by offering two extra products that are deemed healthy for most common people with diabetes, or for people who simply hankering to lower their carb and caloric intake. Bravo! Brands already offers Slim Slammers, a flavoured milk beverage, as a healthy alternative to other flavored milks, and it has now had the DRI logo on it for over two years. Now, Bravo!
