What should I include in my letter to ask friends and family to support jdrf by send money?

im raising money for my juvenile diabetes walk team. im sending out letters to my friends and family asking for donations. i dont want it to sound pushy and i also dont want to sound pathetic when telling about the struggles of living with diabetes every day... any suggestions?

Your Juvenile Diabetes Walk Team needs to have a meeting to decide on a format to use when sending out these letters, since others besides you will be asking for donations.

There also may be information, including a "sample" letter, in the information that the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation sent your team.

This is a page from their website that might also give you some ideas on what to put in a letter. People like to read statistics when they're being asked to give money: http://ride.jdrf.org/whyride.html

The JDRF "Get Involved" page also has good ideas. http://www.jdrf.org/index.cfm?page_id=10...
http://www.jdrf.org/index.cfm?page_id=10...

Mention:

1. How many children have diabetes? Every year 13,000 children are diagnosed with diabetes. That's 35 children a day.
2. What does diabetes do to children? It makes them dependent on insulin for the rest of their lives. It needs constant attention and can cause devastating health problems to every organ in the body.
3. What does JDRF do? The mission of JDRF is to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research.
4. What will JDRF do with my donation? Since its founding in 1970 by parents of children with type 1 diabetes, JDRF has awarded more than $1 billion to diabetes research.

People like to read facts, and they like to know other people are donating, and they like to know what's going to be done with their donation.

Hope this helps!

Something light and quick that talks a bit about the disease. Make it positive sounding, and let them know they can help science continue to learn about this disease. Let them know specifically what their donated money would be used for, and whether or not it would be tax deductible.

try not to worry about sounding pushy. i have had diabetes for 6 years. and my family completely supports jdrf. they get excited with anything relative to it lol. if you explain to them about how its like to live with diabetes, not putting a lot of 'gimme sympathy' in it and just telling them how much it would mean to you if they could donate anything then it should go well. i should prolly start collecting too eh?
well good luck :]