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Fund A Cure Junior Ambassador
Nina Pennoyer

Eleven-year-old Nina Pennoyer, daughter of Drs. William and Jennifer Pennoyer of West Hartford, is this year’s Fund A Cure Junior Ambassador. Nina,an avid athlete who enjoys soccer, downhill ski racing and lacrosse, is a sixth grader at Kingswood Oxford School. Nina was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 5. When asked what finding a cure for diabetes would mean to her, Nina stated “a chance to be a regular kid and not have as much responsibility.”

Artificial Pancreas Project
Fund A Cure is your opportunity to make a 100% tax-deductible contribution directly to JDRF’s renowned research efforts for the Artificial Pancreas Project, which uses technology with life-changing implications. An artificial pancreas will link an insulin pump to a continuous glucose monitor, providing the right amount of insulin at the right time, just as the pancreas does in people without diabetes. It could potentially revolutionize diabetes care and management, significantly improving the ability of people with diabetes to maintain strict blood glucose control and, as a direct result, helping reduce kidney disease, heart attacks and stroke, amputations, blindness, and death from severe hypoglycemia.

In honor of Nina Pennoyer and all of our loved ones living with type 1 diabetes, please join us in our efforts to make medical history and transform their lives by supporting Fund A Cure either prior to the Promise Ball or on gala night. Your company’s matching gift program can increase, or even double, your contribution to this effort. We thank you for your support.

JDRF is the leader in setting the agenda for diabetes research worldwide, and is the largest charitable funder and advocate of type 1 research. The mission of JDRF is to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research. Type 1diabetes is an autoimmune disease which strikes children and adults suddenly and requires multiple injections of insulin daily or a continuous infusion of insulin through a pump. Insulin, however, is not a cure for diabetes, nor does it prevent its eventual and devastating complications. Since its founding in 1970 by parents of children with type 1 diabetes, JDRF has awarded more than $1.5 billion to diabetes research, including more than $107 million in FY2010.

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Donations $5,000 & higher will be announced night of the event. All donations of $500 & above will be acknowledged in the program journal if received by April 1, 2011.