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We’re walking on Sunday September 13, 2009 in Peoria and on Sunday October 4, 2009 in five Chicagoland locations.
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JDRF Illinois is thrilled to announce that this year's Best of Illinois Dinner raised $1 million in honor of
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 Harry Caray’s Italian Steakhouse in Chicago
The West Side Rooters Social Club hosts an evening benefitting JDRF!
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Join the Illinois Chapter group on Juvenation!
Have you ever dreamed of designing a race car? Now’s your chance! Ford is partnering with JDRF once again with this unique opportunity that raised nearly $85,000 in 2008! Ford is a sponsor of NHRA race car driver Bob Tasca III. He’ll race in Charlotte, North Carolina in a car potentially designed by your child! Your child’s design will be posted on a JDRF website open to the public for on-line “bid” donations to decide the chosen design. Ford will select the winner from the top 5 designs with the highest total bids!
What does this contest do for JDRF and for you?
- All proceeds raised by the “bid” donations will support diabetes research!
- Funds raised by your design can benefit your walk team! So get as many people to donate to your design as possible and watch your team total grow!
- Let’s make JDRF Illinois the #1 chapter with the most designs submitted and the highest number of donations collected online! This is a national JDRF contest!
What is my next step to have my child’s design on an NHRA Race Car?
- Read all the rules and regulations at the JDRF website.
- Mail the design to the given address (make sure to include your child’s name, age and chapter).
- Let JDRF Illinois know you sent in a design! Email Katy Orender: korender@jdrf.org.
This year, JDRF Illinois, Ford Motor Company Fund, and Project S.N.A.P. are working together to create two giant mosaic murals out of the drawings of JDRF Illinois children and families and members of the JDRF Illinois community.
The final mosaic murals will be unveiled at the December 12 2009, Chance of a Lifetime Gala and auctioned as a fundraiser for JDRF. Posters of the final mosaic will be available in the fall.
Children with Type 1 Diabetes, brothers, sisters, parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts, neighbors and friends from across the State of Illinois are invited to participate in the creation of these giant mosaics by creating artwork that will make up the "big picture". ANY AGE CAN PARTICIPATE! If you create artwork for the mosaic your artwork will be one of the images that makes up the final mosaic and in the fall you will be able to visit the Project S.N.A.P. Visit: projectsnap.org/jdrf.html
Please visit our Artificial Pancreas Project page for more information.
 Check back here for information about tickets to the Jonas Brothers concert on July 10, 2009 at the Allstate Arena. Tickets will be auctioned off on eBay in early July with proceeds benefiting JDRF!
Also, check out the “Express Your Simple Win” Creativity Contest! Express your own Simple Win by creating a 15-30 second video with your song, lyric, story, drawing, photo movie or other creative idea. Open to 6-18 year olds with diabetes. Three lucky grand prize winners will meet Nick in person!
Go to www.NicksSimpleWins.com for
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Lilly Jaffe, a North Shore suburban girl who had been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was just one month old, is now insulin independent. “She is so proud,” said her mother, Laurie Jaffe, “So happy and excited. For the first time in her life, she can be like her friends and her brother and sister.”
Read more about Lilly’s amazing story.
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The buzz around the promise of an artificial pancreas is truly deserving. “Perfecting a closed loop artificial pancreas” is one of JDRF’s five cure therapeutic goals in the next five years. JDRF has launched “The Artificial Pancreas Project,” a new initiative to help accelerate the availability of this technology to people with type 1 diabetes.
For basic information about Artificial Pancreas Project, download this PDF.
For further information on the Artificial Pancreas Project, please visit http://www.jdrf.org/index.cfm?page_id=106675.
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