In light of recent organizational changes, we wanted to share news from our chapter.

This year, in the midst of great mission progress came a global pandemic, which disrupted our event-based fundraising model and forced us to re-imagine many of our annual fundraisers to keep our community safe. During this time, it became clear that to continue funding critical, life-changing research, we would have to make some significant changes to our organization. JDRF is now fast-tracking new strategies to drive mission momentum in the current challenging fundraising environment.

As part of these efforts, we’ve realigned our chapter footprint to support broader geographies more efficiently and become a more “volunteer-powered” organization.

Moving forward, we will be a leaner organization with fewer staff and chapters sharing resources across larger geographic areas. As a result, the North Florida Chapter, Central Florida Chapter and Tampa Chapters have now joined together as one to form the new Northern Florida Chapter.

The staff dedicated to Northern Florida Chapter are as follows:

Shane Bevilacqua
Executive Director

Brooks Biagini
Market Director

Erika Lemus
Development Manager

Dori Rivers
Outreach Manager

Carole Brennan
Development Manager

Andrea Helme
Development Manager

In the coming weeks, you will see updated website content and social media pages, as well as more details on how the Northern Florida Chapter plans on accelerating our mission.  We invite you to read more about JDRF’s vision for the future and should you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out directly to BBiagini@jdrf.org.

Thank you for your support of our T1D community and JDRF.