Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

Ever wonder how you can ramp up your charitable-giving efforts? Monica Oxenreiter, a 16-year-old in Pittsburgh, might provide some inspiration. People who give $100 to the nonprofit Oxenreiter started can “buy” their ZIP code — and, on a bright-yellow map on her website that details donations nationwide, that ZIP code turns lime-green.

That’s the ingenious idea behind Oxenreiter’s Zip the Cure, a nonprofit she created to generate contributions for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, or JDRF. See ZiptheCure.com.

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When FS' parent company, North American Publishing Co., set out to launch this magazine in summer 2003, the launch team wanted to establish an editorial advisory board that would ensure it started out on the right foot and stayed that way. The board had to include people from all areas of fundraising who were entrenched enough to have a solid grasp of its history but still open enough to be able to see into its future and head there without fear.

The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), the largest charitable funder and advocate of type 1 diabetes research, recently launched a mobile-marketing campaign that uses wireless technology to enhance communication with and generate involvement from its advocates across the country. Called DiabeTXT, the program sends information to JDRF constituents via text messages, alerting them about important legislation news, diabetes research news and upcoming events. 

We recently caught up with Michael Kondratick, director of grassroots advocacy for JDRF, to talk with him a bit about how the program is working and what he sees for its future.

August 25, 2009 — Advance Auto Parts, Inc. (NYSE:AAP), a leading automotive aftermarket retailer of parts, batteries, accessories, and maintenance items, and a national partner of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), is proud to announce the launch of its 2009 "sneaker” sales campaign to benefit children with diabetes. This year marks Advance’s 16th consecutive year of support for JDRF in the search to find a cure for type-1 (juvenile) diabetes. In the past 15 years, Advance has raised more than $16.5 million for JDRF. Advance and its Team Members are tireless in their efforts to give back to the communities in which they live and work. The company has already raised $1.5 million this year towards the 2009 Company goal of $3 million for JDRF.

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 29, 2009 — The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), a leader in setting the agenda for type 1 diabetes research, has recently launched a mobile marketing campaign that will use wireless technology to enhance communication with, and generate involvement from its advocates across the country.  Through the DiabeTXT program, JDRF will send information to its constituents via text messages, alerting them about important legislation news, diabetes research news, and upcoming events.

Holliston, MA, June 16, 2009 — LW Robbins Associates, an all-media direct response fundraising agency that has served nonprofit organizations exclusively for over 38 years, won 15 awards at the New England Direct Marketing Association's (NEDMA) 2009 Awards for Creative Excellence Show held at The Roxy in Boston on June 10, 2009.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., June 8, 2009 — Imagine asking a company for a one thousand dollar charitable donation and instead receiving $50,000! Not many local charities have an anecdote like that one to tell ... but it happened recently to The Lincoln Family Downtown YMCA when the organization approached Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons.

People tend to think the nonprofit world is vastly different than the for-profit world. But as Amy Franze, executive vice president of development at Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International, exemplifies, the two worlds aren’t as different as they might appear.

WAYLAND, MA, May 18, 2008 — At a time when charities are looking for new sources of funding, the Davlin Philanthropic Fund has sent its first set of “sustainable giving” donations to nine charities.  This marks the first time a mutual fund has allowed investors to donate to charity a significant portion of the fees typically paid to fund management.

An online platform called Tickets-for-Charity works with musicians and sports teams to offer fans access to some of the best seats for events in exchange for a donation to charity. Through www.Tickets-for-Charity.com, music and sports enthusiasts can buy tickets at face value when they pay a set charitable donation amount.