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 reimagine 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 Northeast Wisconsin Chapter have now joined together as one: JDRF Wisconsin. 

The staff dedicated to JDRF Wisconsin are as follows:

• Tanya Bissen, Executive Director
• Julie Feest, Market Director
• Dana Brill, Sr. Development Manager
• Erin Vella, Development Manager
• Lottie Brooks, Development Coordinator

In the coming weeks, you will see updated website content and social media pages, as well as more details on how JDRF Wisconsin 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 Julie Feest at jfeest@jdrf.org or Dana Brill at dbrill@jdrf.org

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