With a line-up of high-profile events in 2020, JDRF Bay Area is offering exciting opportunities for companies wishing to join our mission to improve lives today and tomorrow by accelerating life-changing breakthroughs to cure, treat and prevent type 1 diabetes (T1D) and its complications. Partnerships create positive community visibility, demonstrate market presence, and are opportunities to network with clients and employees. Our corporate partners take raising funds and awareness for T1D research to new heights, helping us turn Type One into Type None. Our 2020 featured events:

Tee to Table– March 20, 2020 SOLD OUT!

Honoring Carol Sisney and Kelly Sisney

The Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay, Miramontes Point Road, Half Moon Bay
Contact: Frank Bitonte – 415-597-6313 – fbitonte@jdrf.org

2019 Attendees: 410
2019 Printed Invitations: 1,500 sent with sponsor recognition

Tee to Table is a premier golf, tennis, and evening culinary experience on the beautiful California coast! It features a golf scramble on the Ocean course and a 24-person round-robin tennis tournament, followed by cocktails, dinner, presentation of the Impact Award, live auction, Fund A Cure program, and dancing to Notorious, the Bay Area’s top live cover band. Leaders and families of Silicon Valley come together for this fun and relaxed fundraising event. Click here for more information.

Hope Gala– May 16, 2020

Honoring Co-Directors of the JDRF Northern California Center of Excellence: Dr. Matthias Hebrok, Ph.D., UCSF, and Seung Kim, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford

The Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco, 600 Stockton Street, San Francisco
Contact: Myra Sanders-Lyle – 415-597-6319 – MSanders-Lyle@jdrf.org

2019 Attendees: 500
2019 Printed Invitations: 1,900 sent with sponsor recognition

The Hope Gala is a high profile networking opportunity and most successful annual fundraiser in the Greater Bay Area. Celebrating it 21st year, this Black tie event includes a cocktail reception, presentation of the Living & Giving Award, a spectacular live auction and Fund A Cure program, gourmet dinner, music and dancing. The Hope Gala is an inspirational event that offers supporters the opportunity to be socially conscious community leaders. Click here for more information.

Summer Classic – September 18, 2020

Wente Vineyards, 5050 Arroyo Road, Livermore
Contact: Frank Bitonte – 415-597-6313 – fbitonte@jdrf.org

2019 Attendees: 375
2019 Printed Invitations: 1,300 sent with sponsor recognition

The East Bay swings into action for the JDRF Summer Classic! Everyone is guaranteed to have a great time at this festive event featuring a golf classic, evening dinner bash, silent and live auctions, Fund A Cure program, and dancing under the stars to DJ DiaBeats, Kevin O’Scanlon. Click here for more information.

JDRF One Walk – Fall, 2020

2019 Walkers in the Greater Bay Area: 6,000

Contact: Kevin O’Scanlon – 415-597-6311 – koscanlon@jdrf.org

Each year, JDRF One Walk brings together thousands of people from around the Bay Area to change the future for people living with T1D by raising money for research. With their support, we are able to increase the amount of research we fund. Many people who walk have T1D themselves, and many more are friends, family or coworkers of someone challenged by this disease. But no matter what their connection is, they walk because they believe in a world without T1D.

Bay Area Community Outreach Events

Contact: Kellee Hearn – 415-597-6312 – khearn@jdrf.org

Customized sponsorship and underwriting opportunities are available for community, research and outreach events.

JDRF is the leading global organization funding type 1 diabetes (T1D) research. Our strength lies in our exclusive focus and singular influence on the worldwide effort to end T1D. We have some of the best ratings for an organization focused on a single disease from charity watchdog groups and media. People and companies donate to JDRF because we have a solid track record of funding research efficiently and effectively. Approximately 80% of what JDRF spends goes directly to T1D research and research-related education, which is among the highest percentages for charities nationwide.