JDRF Greater New England is proud to be an official charity of the Boston Marathon. Team JDRF is a top performing charity team of runners who are united in the common purpose of creating a world without type 1 diabetes (T1D). We offer support through every stage of your training and fundraising. This year, our goal is for each runner to exceed the $10,000 fundraising minimum. Participants who have secured their own entry into the Boston Marathon are welcome to join our team at any time. While there is no fundraising minimum for qualified runners, we do have a suggested fundraising goal of $2,000.
JDRF is the leading global organization funding type 1 diabetes research. Our strength lies in our exclusive focus and singular influence on the worldwide effort to end T1D. JDRF works every day to change the reality of this disease for millions of people—and to prevent anyone else from ever knowing it—by funding research; advocating for government support of research; ensuring new therapies come to market; and connecting, engaging, and educating the T1D community.
Every dollar we put toward research comes from donations. When you support JDRF with your time, talent, voice and, yes, your money, you enable us to advance even more research. At JDRF, we are part of the very community we support, and this makes us passionately driven to cure T1D. There are many ways to join the JDRF family, but since our founding in 1970 there has been only one reason—because we are the organization that will turn Type One into Type None.