Help Us Find A Cure for Type 1 Diabetes - Volunteer at the Annual JDRF One Walk!

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We need volunteers for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) annual One Walk, taking place at the beautiful Fort Mason in San Francisco. The JDRF One Walk has a single goal: creating a world without Type 1 Diabetes (T1D), and helps JDRF continue to fund life-changing research for the millions of children, adults, and families affected by T1D.

Volunteers are needed for a variety of positions including, but not limited to: registering walkers as they arrive at Fort Mason, running game booths for our younger walkers, cheering on and offering refreshments to walkers along the walk route, serving pre-packaged lunch meals to walkers, and setting-up and breaking-down tables, chairs, and booths before and after the event.

We need volunteers between the hours of 7am - 3pm, and we ask for at least a 3 hour commitment.

The walkers have all raised money to support the JDRF, which is the leading global organization funding T1D research (~80% of JDRF expenditures go directly towards research and research-related education). Help us celebrate the walkers’ dedication to finding a cure for T1D by volunteering to make sure this walk is well organized and lots of fun! Volunteers are the key to our success, so we need you!

About the JDRF One Walk:
JDRF One Walk has a single goal: creating a world without type 1 diabetes (T1D). We hope you'll join us this year and help JDRF continue to fund life-changing research for the millions of children, adults and families affected by T1D.

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which a person's pancreas loses the ability to produce insulin--a hormone essential to turning food into energy. It strikes both children and adults suddenly and is unrelated to diet and lifestyle. It requires constant carbohydrate counting, blood-glucose testing and lifelong dependence on injected insulin.

With T1D there are no days off, and there is no cure. That's why JDRF holds more than 200 Walks across the country every year to raise money for JDRF--the only global organization with a strategic research plan to end T1D.

Each year, JDRF Walks bring together more than 900,000 people who raise more than $68 million for critical T1D research. This success is only possible because of the support, commitment and strength of our community. Learn more at www.walk.jdrf.org/sanfrancisco.

For more information or to volunteer, please contact Renee Darner at reneedarner@yahoo.com.