Mission: To Prevent and Cure Diabetes and to Improve the Lives of All People Affected by Diabetes.

Vision: To Make an Everyday Difference in the Quality of Life for People Affected by Diabetes.

Description:
YOUR AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION(ADA):The ADA is the only organization supporting ALL people with diabetes: people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, children and adults. We help those who care for people with diabetes: parents, families, friends, employers. We are the only organization that also supports health care professionals who deliver the care and the scientists who search for the cure needed by people with diabetes.

CLOSER TO A CURE & BETTER CARE: All of us at the ADA want a cure for diabetes, because we know firsthand the devastation in can bring. Through our Research Program, we are working to find the cure for and prevention of diabetes and its many health problems.

RESEARCH ALONE IS NOT ENOUGH: Without the ADA, research would not advance as quickly or efficiently, and a cure would be further away. To make progress toward the cure, research results have to be shared. And this is where the ADA is leading the way. Through our medical journals, our annual scientific sessions (the largest diabetes conference in the world), and other professional education programs, the ADA makes research come to life. By sharing this information, scientists learn and develop new ideas and health care providers have more tools to care for people with diabetes.

GETTING THINGS DONE THROUGH ADVOCACY: We protect the rights of kids with diabetes in the schools and adults in the workplace. So far, we've helped more than 11 million people by securing legislation that guarantees private and Medicare insurance coverage of diabetes education, equipment, and supplies. We've helped ensure increases in federal funding for important diabetes research.

History:
The American Diabetes Association is the nation's leading nonprofit health organization providing diabetes research, information and advocacy.

Founded in 1940, today, volunteers and staff in communities conduct programs in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

To fulfill our mission, the ADA funds research, publishes scientific findings, provides information and other services to people with diabetes, their families, health care professionals and the public and advocates for scientific research and for the rights of people with diabetes.

VOLUNTEER POWER: The moving force behind our work is a network of more than one million volunteers, including a membership of 430,000 diabetes patients and their families, and a professional society of more than 18,000 physicians, scientists, nurses, dietitians, pharmacists, social workers and educators.

Contact people:

Lori Hannam, Executive Director, (phone), (email) Karen Shattuck, Project Manager, (phone), (email) Sheryl Rolfe, Market/Program Manager, (phone), (email)

Office fax number: (515) 251-5831

Address:

2600 72nd Street, Suite O Urbandale, IA 50322 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.diabetes.org

Directions:

North of Hickman on 72nd Street.