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Our site won the Silver 2010 Communicator Award!!

admin — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:00:26 +0000

The Dodging Diabetes Charity Dodgeball Tournament website has been awarded a Silver 2010 Communicator Award by the International Academy of the Visual Arts. The Communicator Awards is the leading international awards program honoring creative excellence for communications professionals. New Signature designed and built the visually stunning, innovative Dodging Diabetes Charity Dodgeball Tournament website. (Thanks New Signature!!)

Founded by communication professionals over a decade ago, The Communicator Awards is an annual competition honoring the best in advertising, corporate communications, public relations and identity work for print, video, interactive and audio. The 2010 Communicator Awards received more than 7,000 entries from ad agencies, interactive agencies, production firms, in-house creative professionals, graphic designers, design firms, and public relations firms–making it one of the largest awards of its kind in the world.

The Communicator Awards are judged and overseen by the International Academy of the Visual Arts (IAVA), a 550+ member organization of leading professionals from various disciplines of the visual arts dedicated to embracing progress and the evolving nature of traditional and interactive media. Current IAVA membership represents a “Who’s Who” of acclaimed media, advertising, and marketing firms including: Condè Nast, Coach, Disney, The Ellen Degeneres Show, Estee Lauder, HBO, Keller Crescent, Monster.com, MTV, Polo Ralph Lauren, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Tribal DDB, Victoria’s Secret, Wired, Yahoo!, and many others.

Congratulations to American Idol finalist Crystal Bowersox

admin — Thu, 27 May 2010 14:32:30 +0000

Crystal Bowersox is a very popular American Idol finalist and she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was 6 years old. We would like to congratulate her for her amazing performances and wish her the best of luck with her career in music.

Dodging Diabetes in the Gazette

admin — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:20:16 +0000

Great Gazette story about Dodgeball:
“Two downcounty residents are celebrating their fifth year raising money for diabetes research and awareness through a unique fundraiser — a charity dodgeball tournament.

Inspired by the 2004 movie “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story,” Bethesda resident Anna Tiedeman Irwin and Chevy Chase resident Elizabeth Kramer launched the “Dodging Diabetes” event after watching both of their younger brothers struggle with Type I diabetes. Irwin, a 1996 Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart graduate, and Kramer, a 1995 Holton-Arms School graduate, connected when their mothers met at a diabetes fundraising event. The two decided they wanted to do something a little different to raise money and awareness about the disease.

“The movie had just come out, and I had this idea — what if we could do a dodgeball tournament, something everyone could participate in with no skill required?” said Irwin.”

Thank you!

admin — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:23:57 +0000

Thank you to the 33 teams and more than 500 athletes, fans, volunteers, sponsors and refs who came out on Saturday to make the 5th Annual Dodging Diabetes Charity Dodgeball Tournament a total success. Together we raised more than $13,000 for the Joslin Diabetes Center for research, treatment and education.

There is still time to donate and please make sure to be a fan of our facebook page. See you next March!

NBC shout out

admin — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:27:17 +0000

Check out our shout out on NBC.com! Thanks for helping to spread the word!

Examine this!

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:30:20 +0000

The examiner gave Dodging Diabetes a nice shout out today. Thanks for helping us spread the word!

Who’s your daddy?

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:13:02 +0000

Urban Daddy, of course!! Thanks for the shout out about dodgeball. Hope to see some urban daddies out on the dodgeball court on March 20! We can only imagine the team names will be fabulous.

We love DC

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:05:53 +0000

We love We Love DC for helping us to spread the word about Dodging Diabetes. Thanks!! Will WeLoveDC Love Dodging Diabetes by playing in the tournament?? Inquiring minds want to know…

Georgetown Hoyas Freeman diagnosed with diabetes

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:39:32 +0000

Georgetown’s University basketball team’s leading scorer, junior guard Austin Freeman, has developed diabetes.

“It’s just something I’m going to have to deal with,” said Freeman, 20, who received the diagnosis soon after he was taken to the hospital’s emergency room Monday. “It’s going to be a certain change in my diet and my life. But I know I can deal with it. I’ll be fine….Having the success they [high level athletes with diabetes] have had just shows that diabetics can still do what they have to do,” said Freeman, a McDonald’s all-American and All-Met Player of the Year at DeMatha. — Washington Post, Thursday, March 4, 2010

For more, please see the Washingtonpost.com website: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/03/AR2010030304438.html?sub=AR

Support Dorgan/Collins Type 1 research bill

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:21:15 +0000

Thank you Senators Collins and Dorgan for introducing the Special Diabetes Program (SDP) (S. 3058) bill which would provide $200 million each year for the next 5 years for research, development of therapies, and treatment methods to help type 1 diabetics treat the disease in the long term.

Sen. Dorgan, founder of the Senate Diabetes Caucus, and Sen. Collins made us proud today. Urge your Senator to support the Special Diabetes Program. The bill would also provide $200 million a year for treatment initiatives targeted to American Indian and Alaska Native populations, groups that are particularly hard hit by diabetes.