:: 5th Annual Dodging Diabetes™ Charity Dodgeball Tournament :: » joslin http://www.dodgingdiabetes.org Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:00:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.009 en hourly 1 Our site won the Silver 2010 Communicator Award!! http://www.dodgingdiabetes.org/2010/06/02/our-site-won-the-silver-2010-communicator-award/ http://www.dodgingdiabetes.org/2010/06/02/our-site-won-the-silver-2010-communicator-award/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:00:26 +0000 admin http://www.dodgingdiabetes.org/?p=422 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.

]]> http://www.dodgingdiabetes.org/2010/06/02/our-site-won-the-silver-2010-communicator-award/feed/ 0 Dodging Diabetes in the Gazette http://www.dodgingdiabetes.org/2010/04/05/dodging-diabetes-in-the-gazette/ http://www.dodgingdiabetes.org/2010/04/05/dodging-diabetes-in-the-gazette/#comments Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:20:16 +0000 admin http://www.dodgingdiabetes.org/?p=414 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.”

Read more…

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

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]]> http://www.dodgingdiabetes.org/2010/03/09/whos-your-daddy/feed/ 0 Support Dorgan/Collins Type 1 research bill http://www.dodgingdiabetes.org/2010/03/04/support-dorgancollins-type-1-research-bill/ http://www.dodgingdiabetes.org/2010/03/04/support-dorgancollins-type-1-research-bill/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:21:15 +0000 admin http://www.dodgingdiabetes.org/?p=336 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.

]]> http://www.dodgingdiabetes.org/2010/03/04/support-dorgancollins-type-1-research-bill/feed/ 0 Dodging Diabetes – Andy’s story http://www.dodgingdiabetes.org/2010/02/16/298/ http://www.dodgingdiabetes.org/2010/02/16/298/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:46:24 +0000 admin http://www.dodgingdiabetes.org/?p=298 How a guy named Andy found the Yellow Brick Road http://tinyurl.com/yzw7l4z  Read about some of the inspiration behind Dodging Diabetes on the Diabetes Mine Blog!

]]> http://www.dodgingdiabetes.org/2010/02/16/298/feed/ 0 Joslin beta cell research leads the way http://www.dodgingdiabetes.org/2010/01/06/joslin-beta-cell-research-leads-the-way/ http://www.dodgingdiabetes.org/2010/01/06/joslin-beta-cell-research-leads-the-way/#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:22:56 +0000 admin http://www.dodgingdiabetes.org/?p=255 Dodging Diabetes™ is thrilled Joslin Diabetes Center’s  research continues to lead the way with groundbreaking discoveries like this one getting us one step closer to preventing and utlimately curing diabetes  http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/175167.php

Joslin scientists led by Principal Investigator Robert Stanton, M.D., have discovered that high blood glucose levels damage a key enzyme that guards insulin-producing beta cells. Their surprising finding raises hopes of finding drugs that protect the enzyme, and thus the beta cells and their insulin production.

]]> http://www.dodgingdiabetes.org/2010/01/06/joslin-beta-cell-research-leads-the-way/feed/ 0 Fox 5 in DC – make sure to watch tomorrow morning (March 5) http://www.dodgingdiabetes.org/2009/03/04/fox-5-in-dc-make-sure-to-watch-tomorrow-morning-march-5/ http://www.dodgingdiabetes.org/2009/03/04/fox-5-in-dc-make-sure-to-watch-tomorrow-morning-march-5/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:50:04 +0000 admin http://www.dodgingdiabetes.org/2009/03/04/fox-5-in-dc-make-sure-to-watch-tomorrow-morning-march-5/ Make sure to check out Fox 5 news tomorrow morning between 6 and 9 am – Dodging Diabetes will be featured on two segments to plug this weekend’s tournament. We’ll post a clip as soon as we’re able.

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