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Volunteer opportunities
JDRF is a volunteer-driven organization. JDRF is whatever we, the volunteers, make of it. All of us have a talent somewhere. Don’t know what your talent is? We promise we can find it! Have you volunteered in the past and never got called to “active duty”? Try again, please! We are working hard to make sure everyone’s efforts are used.
E-mail us directly with your interests at westernwi@jdrf.org
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About JDRF
JDRF partners with the federal government to support research funding increases and policy changes that will advance research to find a cure for juvenile diabetes and its complications. By focusing efforts on a core plan of legislative goals, JDRF Government Relations staff, volunteers, and grassroots advocates work to accelerate research toward a cure. Together, we make this organization great!
More information is available at www.jdrf.org.
JDRF Legislative Goals for this year:
- Embryonic Stem Cell Policy
- Urge support for an expansion of the current federal policy on embryonic stem cell research.
- Organ and Tissue Transplantation Policy
- Pursue policy and regulatory initiatives that will increase the availability of pancreata for research and approval of islet cell transplantation as a legitimate medical procedure.
- Support The Pancreatic Islet Cell Transplantation Act of 2004
- Research Funding Increase
- Secure a 10% increase in Fiscal Year funding for the National Institutes of Health.
