Please mark
your calendar for May 2. That’s the launch of our uber-important 2011 JDRF
Advocacy Survey. You can access it via email (sign up here to receive), or through
the JDRF Advocacy Facebook page
and our Twitter feed (so make
sure you ‘Like‘ or ‘Follow‘ us). Also, if you’re on the go
constantly, you can receive the survey via mobile text message (simply text
ACTION to 37420).

Why is it
uber-important, you ask? Simple, this is the most effective way to let us, the
JDRF Advocacy staff, know what is important to you! Your suggestions will allow
us to not only determine what programs we need to create to help you be better
advocates be but also ensure we are targeting the correct demographics when
creating or implementing advocacy programs.

Over the
years we’ve found that adult type 1s are a growing demographic in our network
of advocates and it’s important that we harness their passion, power, and
energy for better management and a cure of type 1 diabetes. We’ve found out
that majority of our advocates use Facebook or some sort of a social media
site, which led to us creating and enhancing Type 1 Talk on Facebook. We
also discovered that many of you are interested in helping coordinate meetings
with legislators, which led to a record breaking Promise to Remember Me Campaign during which
we held 431 meetings with Members of Congress.

So, in
short, we need your help to shape the future of our program!

Remember,
you’ll have the chance to answer questions via email (sign up here), Facebook, Twitter, and mobile phone (text
ACTION to 37420).

Thanks and
look forward to your feedback!

Hasan