Diabetes-Focused Charities

Many organizations work on behalf of people with diabetes and those who care for them. Some focus on research towards curing people with diabetes; others focus on developing improved treatments for diabetes. Some focus on reaching out to people at risk for diabetes; others help people with diabetes live longer, healthier, and more "normal" lives.

Rather than provide an exhaustive list of diabetes-related charities, we have chosen to focus on a few organizations that provide different types of support. While Yizkor is a Jewish tradition, the causes we have selected are deliberately non-denominational.

Sometimes the family of a person on the Diabetes Yizkor list will request donations go to a specific charity; we honor those requests by adding a link to their listing.

In all cases, please feel free to contribute to the diabetes-related organizations with which you feel most comfortable.

Research and Outreach

• The The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation is dedicated to finding a cure for type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune condition which kills insulin-producing cells
• The American Diabetes Association supports research towards the treatment and cure of all types of diabetes, as well as providing outreach to communities at increased risk for diabetes
• The Diabetes Research Institute supports research to treat and cure people living with diabetes.

Support and Supplies

• Act1 Diabetes is a support group for adults living with Type 1 diabetes. Their projects include the distribution of unused diabetes supplies to those in need.
• Life for a Child, one of the projects of the International Diabetes Federation, provides insulin and diabetes care to children with type 1 diabetes in remote parts of the world
• dLife Foundation promotes education and motivation for people with diabetes, focusing on the psychological aspects of the condition.

Communities

• The Diabetes Hands Foundation's projects include the social communities TuDiabetes and EsTuDiabetes, the Diabetes Advocates program, and a number of diabetes awareness and advocacy projects such as the Big Blue Test.

Other

• Team Type 1 "strives to instill hope and inspiration for people around the world affected by diabetes." This is done through professional sports — particularly its professional and developmental cycling program, its triathlon team, and its running team — as well as diabetes-focused sports-medicine research and outreach to both medical professionals and people living with diabetes.