Advocates Testify at Senate Diabetes Hearing
Senator Bill Nelson, of Florida, chair of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, and Senator Susan Collins, of Maine, ranking member of the committee, convened the eighth biennial Senate Diabetes...
View ArticleVolunteer spotlight: Michelle Crouse
An Alabama volunteer provides calm in a storm Imagine a tornado ripping through your community. Now imagine that you have lost everything, including vital medical supplies. That’s just what happened to...
View ArticleVolunteer Spotlight: Monica Oxenreiter
Check out this resume: Founder of Zip the Cure, JDRF Youth Ambassador, Walk to Cure Diabetes participant, Trial Net liaison, Promise to Remember Me Campaign advocate, JDRF Children’s Congress delegate,...
View ArticleDay one of 2015 JDRF Children’s Congress is a wrap!
This is Brian Herrick and Kady Helme reporting each day from 2015 JDRF Children’s Congress. Yesterday was a travel day for most of our delegates and staff, who came from all 50 states and 6 countries...
View Article2015 JDRF Children’s Congress Day Three Recap
After three days of advocacy, education and networking, the 2015 JDRF Children’s Congress is over. All 163 of our delegates and their families are traveling back to their home states and countries,...
View Article2015 JDRF Children’s Congress changed my life
Of all the activities I have done with JDRF over the past seven years, none affected me as much as traveling to Washington, D.C., to tell my story at JDRF 2015 Children’s Congress. Until recently, I...
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