:: 5th Annual Dodging Diabetes™ Charity Dodgeball Tournament :: » News Coverage 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.”

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]]> http://www.dodgingdiabetes.org/2010/03/22/thanks-electric-dream-machine/feed/ 0 NBC shout out http://www.dodgingdiabetes.org/2010/03/22/nbc-shout-out/ http://www.dodgingdiabetes.org/2010/03/22/nbc-shout-out/#comments Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:27:17 +0000 admin http://www.dodgingdiabetes.org/?p=385 Check out our shout out on NBC.com! Thanks for helping to spread the word!

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]]> http://www.dodgingdiabetes.org/2010/03/11/examine-this/feed/ 0 Who’s your daddy? http://www.dodgingdiabetes.org/2010/03/09/whos-your-daddy/ http://www.dodgingdiabetes.org/2010/03/09/whos-your-daddy/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:13:02 +0000 admin http://www.dodgingdiabetes.org/?p=347 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.

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WASHINGTON – More than twenty million people in the United States have diabetes.

But help to fight it could come in the form of a red rubber ball.

FOX 5’s Holly Morris is showing us how playing dodge ball can raise money and awareness to fight the disease.

]]> http://www.dodgingdiabetes.org/2009/03/05/fox-5-news-coverage/feed/ 0 Stone Ridge Alumni Magazine News Coverage http://www.dodgingdiabetes.org/2009/03/03/stone-ridge-alumni-magazine-news-coverage/ http://www.dodgingdiabetes.org/2009/03/03/stone-ridge-alumni-magazine-news-coverage/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:33:04 +0000 admin http://dev.newsig.com/dd/?p=136 Stone Ridge Alumni Magazine March 2009

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