Commitment to a Cure
- Davida F. Kruger, MSN, APRN, BC-ADM
I have been a nurse practitioner for the past 19 years. I have been a volunteer for the American Diabetes Association (ADA) for the same amount of time. I remember my early days as a volunteer for the ADA. I was a health care professional, I helped people with their diabetes, and so that, therefore, was my contribution as a volunteer, as well. Fund-raising, after all, was for the other, non-health care professional, volunteers. Or so I thought.
I quickly learned otherwise. Fund-raising is at the heart of all the American Diabetes Association does and is what allows ADA to be the unique organization it is. Without fund-raising, we do not have the ability to support research, offer programs that bring information to both people with diabetes and health professionals, or support advocacy to protect people with diabetes from …
