Walk to Cure Diabetes

Four Summer Events to Kick Off the 2011 Walk to Cure Diabetes

by JDRF Bay Area 05.06.2011 Events
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Bring your family and friends or go with your co-workers and make it a summer staff outing. Gather fundraising tools, connect with others touched by type 1 diabetes and hear about the progress being made in diabetes research.

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Win a Chance to Take the Field with the Oakland A’s!

by JDRF Bay Area 05.06.2011 Life with Diabetes
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JDRF Bay Area is holding a writing contest for kids. We want to hear about how you, your friend, brother or sister triumphs over type 1 diabetes while playing sports. Or, you may choose to write about an athlete who has type 1 diabetes, and how that person inspires you.

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Thank You to the Top Fundraising Teams for Walk to Cure Diabetes 2010

by JDRF Bay Area 04.06.2011 Walk to Cure Diabetes
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The seeds are being planted for the 2011 Walk to Cure Diabetes! As we get underway for an exciting year of Walk, we would like to thank and recognize the 2010 JDRF Bay Area Top Fundraising Teams. Your dedication and relentless fundraising efforts have continued to support our on-going commitment to find ways to prevent, better treat, and ultimately cure type 1 diabetes.

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Strikeout Diabetes With The Oakland Athletics

by JDRF Bay Area 03.15.2011 Events
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Please join us at the Oakland Coliseum for the annual MUG Root Beer Float Day with the Oakland A’s on June 30th. The A’s will take on the Florida Marlins at 12:35 pm and JDRF will commemorate Diabetes Awareness Day.

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Our Journey with Lyra

by Allison Porter 11.23.2010 Life with Diabetes
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It is truly hard to illustrate the amount of hyper-vigilance it takes to manage a life with this disease. It calls upon one’s inner mathematician, microbiologist, chemist, spiritual center and emotional strength to name a few of the key aspects it takes for any parent of / or person diagnosed with type 1.

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JDRF Bay Area Is Only $165,000 Short Of Reaching Walk Goal

by JDRF Bay Area 11.09.2010 Walk to Cure Diabetes
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JDRF’s research goals for this year are ambitious: to fund more than $124 million in promising science that leads to better treatments, and eventually a cure for type 1 diabetes. $2 million is the Bay Area Walk to Cure Diabetes’ share of that $124 million. Will you walk an extra mile?

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Volunteers Needed for Walk to Cure Diabetes – Golden Gate Bridge, Sat., Oct 23

by Greg Martin 10.07.2010 Events
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JDRF Bay Area is looking for individuals willing donate a couple hours of time between the hours of 7:00AM to 2:00PM on Saturday, October 23, 2010 to a great cause. Volunteers are needed to help with set up, registration, distributing t-shirts, serving food and beverages, parking and welcome wagon, shuttle bus organizers and helpers, cheerleaders, kids entertainment and clean up crew.

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Help JDRF Thank Walgreens For Their “Lends a Hand” Program

by JDRF Bay Area 09.29.2010 Promotions
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ShareWalgreens, the perennial JDRF corporate partner, and one of the nation’s largest retail pharmacy chains, will support JDRF again in 2010 with a national retail paper icon sales program. The program will be hosted from October 28 through November 30 in more than 7,500 Walgreens pharmacy locations across the United States and Puerto Rico. Walgreens [...]

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