Welcome to the Promise Campaign blog. Check back each week to get the inside scoop on completed Promise meetings from your fellow volunteers, catch profiles on JDRF advocates from across the country and read periodic Campaign updates from our co-chairs.
We’re thrilled to be leading the latest installment of JDRF’s Promise Campaign. Promise turns 10 years old in 2010 and what a decade it has been! Over that time, all of your hard work has generated nearly 1,500 meetings with Members of Congress across the country. In 2008, our efforts helped secure the second largest amount of funding ever dedicated to type 1 research—$450 million!
This sixth edition of Promise still brings challenges, though. Our goal for the Campaign is nothing less than to set another all-time record for completed meetings…400! We need your help to make this goal a reality. You can help us by clicking here to register to attend a local meeting. You can also let us know if you’d like to help organize a meeting.
To begin this journey, we wanted to just tell each of you a bit about ourselves and our connections to type 1 diabetes: