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Diabetes Hands Foundation

Diabetes Hands Foundation
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Founded March 2008
Founders Manny Hernandez, Andreina Davila
Focus "No one touched by diabetes should ever feel alone."
Location
Key people
Eugene Kunde (CEO), Dennis Urbaniak (Chair)
Employees
5
Website diabeteshandsfoundation.org

Diabetes Hands Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Berkeley, California that has been connecting, empowering, and mobilizing the diabetes community since 2008. Diabetes Hands Foundation is funded through sponsorship income, donations, grants, and earned income.

TuDiabetes (in English) and EsTuDiabetes (in Spanish), are social networks for people touched by diabetes. The sites were established in 2007 as the first social network for people touched by diabetes. TuDiabetes and EsTuDiabetes have more than 65,000 registered members and are visited by well over 200,000 people per month. Initially built on the Ning platform, both nonprofit online communities were moved to the Discourse platform in 2015 to continue helping patients live with diabetes without feeling alone.

Between 2010 and 2013, Diabetes Hands Foundation partnered with Children's Hospital Boston to develop TuAnalyze (in English) and EsTuAnalisis (in Spanish), two diabetes data collection, mapping, and surveying applications. Members of the online communities could submit their Hemoglobin A1C data, and the aggregate data and displays the results on maps. The project's goal was to rapidly survey and better understand populations of people with diabetes through data donations. A research paper detailing the first lessons learned in connection with TuAnalyze was published in the Public Library of Science in 2011, and many other survey results have been published by the Boston research team.

The Big Blue Test is a program started by Diabetes Hands Foundation to raise awareness of the importance of exercise for people with diabetes. The program takes place leading up to World Diabetes Day (November 14). It reinforces the importance of exercise in managing diabetes by having participants test their blood sugar, get active, test again, and share the results online at bigbluetest.org. The results typically show how exercise reduces blood sugar levels for both people with diabetes and people without diabetes. For each Big Blue Test submitted, a donation to a diabetes charity has been made to help people with diabetes in need of supplies and/or education. More than 100,000 Big Blue Test entries have been received since 2009. As a consequence, more than $250,000 have been awarded in the form of Big Blue Test grants.


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