WALK TO CURE dIABETES 2009 | Honor those you love with a custom photo button!
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WALK TO CURE diabetes 2008
Welcome to my Walk to Cure diabetes lens! I hope you will find this handcrafted lens a unique and useful resource for your 2009 Walk to Cure|fundraising experience. I have two goals with this Squidoo lens:
First, Provide YOU with unique, useful and updated information on the amazing JdRF Juvenile diabetes Research Foundation, the Walk to Cure events, information on what other walkers are doing and unique ways to energize your fundraising, motivate your team & inspire yourself! 
Second, I'd like to introduce myself and Buttons of Hope for your consideration. I started Buttons of Hope to give people like you a way to personalize your cause. Rather than just scribbling a name on the back of your t-shirt -- now you can easily create your own custom photo button to honor a loved one or support a friend. Imagine if everyone at the 2009 Walk to Cure wore a button with the smiling face of a loved one, WOW! [more on Buttons of Hope and me below]
So grab a cup of coffee & take a look around -- I hope you will find this a useful and fun resource and please consider wearing a photo button in honor of your loved one ~ together we can put a face on breast cancer!
Official Walk to Cure diabetes 2008 website
Handy info and fundraising links...
- FInd a walk and register today!
- Register for the 2008 Walk to Cure diabetes today...
- Why we walk?
- As many as 3 million Americans* have type 1 diabetes, a disease most often diagnosed in childhood that strikes suddenly, lasts a lifetime...read more
- Fundrasing tips...
Ideas to put the FUN back in fundraising...
- Start a team like the DiaBetty's!
Start Your Own Team
Families are forming teams of relatives and friends to walk and raise money for a cure. These teams are tremendously successful-this year alone, families are expected to raise nearly $21 million nationwide.- JdRF Kids Walk
- This new school program gives teachers a flexible diabetes and health education curriculum while giving kids learning activities, an awareness and understanding of diabetes, and an opportunity to earn awards for their accomplishments.
- Cycle to Cure diabetes!
Join us for the JdRF Ride to Cure diabetes in Asheville, Carmel, Death Valley, or Whitefish, and help us to put one of America's deadliest diseases under our wheels for good.
The Forever Moore Research Initiative
For 23 years now, no one has done as much to advance the JDRF mission as International Chairman Mary Tyler Moore. To recognize all that she has given to JDRF and to celebrate her 70th birthday year, JDRF has created the "Forever Moore" research initiative in her honor.
NEW! Buttons of Hope founder Mike Gibbons talks about his passion!
Read Mike's Behind the Button blog post about the video and the work he is doing with charity walks and missing children!
What do Kevin Kline, a bullhorn, and JdRF have in common!
Watch and find out!
curated content from YouTube
Inspire More | Scribble Less with Buttons of Hope!
You know how it is, the morning of the walk ten minutes before the start and you're hurriedly scribbling the names of loved ones on your back!
At Buttons of Hope we make is super easy for you to make custom photo buttons of all your loved ones before the walk. You know why you're walking ~ now you can proudly show them for WHO!
Less Scribbling....
More Inspiring....
At Buttons of Hope we make is super easy for you to make custom photo buttons of all your loved ones before the walk. You know why you're walking ~ now you can proudly show them for WHO!
Less Scribbling....
More Inspiring....
Buttons of Hope in Southpark Magazine!
His Photo Buttons Serve Many Causes...
I am honored to be chosen as South Park (Charlotte NC) magazine's Snapshot for March 2008! Buttons of Hope is my passion & I hope this helps everyone understand just how powerful custom photo buttons & putting a face on your cause can be!
read the article here | Photo Buttons Focus on People
read the article here | Photo Buttons Focus on People
Make your own custom photo button to wear in honor of a loved one @ BUTTONS of HOPE.
To the world it may be just a photo button, but to one person that photo button may be the world!
Try something new this year! Show them WHO you're walking for. Honor a loved one or support a friend by wearing a custom photo button with their picture before and during your 2008 Walk to Cure diabetes fundraising walk.Make your custom button today at Buttons of Hope
- No Minimum - make one custom photo button if you like
- Upload a photo and add custom curved text
- $1 from each photo button donated to the Juvenile diabetes Research Foundation
Once-A-Year Walker's Survival Kit
How to Make it Through a Charity Walk
If About.com's Wendy Bumgardner is not THE expert on walking then I don't know who is! She does a nice job with a special report for Once-A-Year charity walkers. Watch the video "5 Walking Mistakes to Avoid"
Click on the walkers to watch the video!
jdRF Life With diabetes Newsletter
Absolutely everything you need to know about walking from Wendy Bumgardner!
Whether it's your first charity walk or you are a fundraising champ - Wendy's posts at About.com are interesting and informative. This is really good stuff!
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byAbout.com's Debra Manzella, RN on diabetes.
Helpful source for info & resource links about diabetes.
From Debra Manzella...
"This site is designed for people who are interested in, or diagnosed with diabetes, and also for the people who would like to support them. Items such as glucometers, insulin, oral medications, nutrition, exercise and new cutting edge research and development are all involved in comprehensive care. I'll try to steer you in the right direction!"
"This site is designed for people who are interested in, or diagnosed with diabetes, and also for the people who would like to support them. Items such as glucometers, insulin, oral medications, nutrition, exercise and new cutting edge research and development are all involved in comprehensive care. I'll try to steer you in the right direction!"
Fetching RSS feed... please stand bySO WHO IS THIS BUTTON MAN?
So who is this guy Michael Gibbons and what are Buttons of Hope? I think if you watch this video you'll understand my passion and meet some of the people we have helped!
Click on Mike's head to see what people have to say!
So what do I know? Michael Gibbons' Behind the Button blog
Inspired stories about the people behind the photo buttons we make & some thoughts on fundraising & charities from the founder of Buttons of Hope.
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byCurious minds want to know!
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Dr Tony Woolfson
Mar 18, 2008 @ 3:13 am | delete
- This is really great work you are doing here - exercise is just so vital in getting good control (and even cure) in diabetes.
I'm a UK specialist physician and I have been working with diabetes for 30 years.
You may be interested to look at my free diabetes blog.
Regards,
TW
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thomasz
Feb 13, 2008 @ 7:25 pm | delete
- Wow really great lens. Come visit my lenses.
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**That's the nickname for great things found on the web!
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- Buttons of Hope is changing the face of fundraising, making it easier, more fun and more rewarding for charities One photo button at a time!
Important!
Walk in the 2008 Walk to Cure to end juvenile diabetes & remember to Put a Face on your Cause!
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