Here’s one we missed last year. These favors were for a Christmas party for Triumph Corporation. Their charity donation went to the American Red Cross (www.redcross.org), for the Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund where there are still folks today without businesses and homes.  Hurricane Sandy was the deadliest and most destructive hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season. Inflicting nearly $69 billion (2012 USD) in damage, it was the second-costliest hurricane on record in the United States until surpassed by hurricanes Harvey and Maria in 2017. Their favors were our Foil favors with royal blue ribbons and dark chocolate silver foil truffles!

Red Cross & Triumph's favors before shipping in assembly.Red Cross donation & Close up of Triumph's favor at table.Table view of Triumph's favors for American Red Cross.

 

 

 

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      “Thank you for a great product; we were very satisfied and so were our guests.  As you say on your site, it really is the perfect favor since guests still really do want some chocolate.  We have already recommended your product and would love to use them again for a future event.  We wanted to include a charity donation with our wedding favors because wedding planning/spending can really get out of control and we felt it helps gives some perspective to the day to remember and give to others.  It was our day but it isn’t just about the 2 of us.  We paid for our entire wedding ourselves, and were together for 11 years prior to getting married so we tried to make some practical decisions while still having an elegant, fun event. We chose Honor Flight Network (www.honorflight.org), because we have family and friends who are veterans or active duty, our wedding happened to be on Armed Forces Day, and also it went with the travel theme of our wedding.  (We saw Honor Flight Network advertised in the US Airways magazine.)  We also wanted to include chocolate with the  wedding favors because we always appreciate an edible favor as guests.  One time while guests at a wedding (with a late dinner) we tore open the favors that looked like they were chocolate only to discover they were magnets!  Guests liked the truffles so much that some tried to steal the favors of others.  We put out the extras at our breakfast the next day and all disappeared. We loved how customizable the favors were, and how easy to use your site is.  Also, while I would have normally enjoyed the process of assembling the favors myself, we had your company do it for us so that it was one less thing we had to worry about.  Our approach to wedding planning included carefully choosing our vendors/providers, and then trusting them to perform well and you certainly came through for us.”

The wedding was held at Saybrook Point Inn in Old Saybrook, CT

Honor Flight Network & table setting at Jillian's wedding shower her wedding favors.

Honor Flight Network & close up of Jillian's wedding favor with royal blue ribbons.

 Photos courtesy of Heather Colt of Powerstation Events www.powerstationevents.com

 

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     Jon and Amanda had a wonderful wedding experience the Nubble Lighthouse at the York, Maine seashore last summer. The lighthouse at Nubble scenic park is a beautiful venue for wedding and special events. The grounds are expansive enough for large wedding tents which Jon and Amanda reception was held. There is also (on site), lodging for the guests and the immediate wedding party. Their wedding favors were our Foil favors with milk champagne and dark chocolate foil truffles inside natural Kraft favor boxes. They opted for 3 ribbon colors – pink, hot pink and azalea which was a beautiful combination. Their chosen charity donation was JDRF (visit their website). Check out this happy couple….

JDRF - Portrait of Jon & Amanda saying vows at their wedding.

JDRF - Jon & Amanda's favors at the favor table.

Cutting the cake! Donation to JDRF!JDRF - Alternate view of favor table.                                                                                                                                          

Jon & Amanda at the church door donation to JDRF.

Photos Courtesy of Mark Davidson www.mark-davidson.com

 

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     “We chose to donate to ALZorg, Susan G. Komen, and The National MS Society because both my husband and I, along with our families, have been personally affected by these three diseases. We have lost grandparents to Alzheimer’s disease and family friends to breast cancer. A very close family friend has been living with Multiple Sclerosis for as long as I can remember and has been bed ridden for several years now and it was important to us to include The National MS Society. We picked Truffles for a Cause because we didn’t want to give our guests traditional wedding favors. This added a personal touch to our favors and we were so happy that we could help in a our own way with a charity donation to these three foundations.”

(Stephanie and Nick’s favors were our Boxed Minis with silver mini truffles and printed silver ribbons.)

 ALZorg - Stephanie & Nick's table photo of wedding favors at place settings.ALZorg - Close up of table plate setting with Stephanie & Nick's chocolate wedding favors.Alzorg - Close up of chocolate wedding favors at table of Stephanie's wedding.

   Photos courtesy of Christopher Duggan – www.christopherduggan.com.

 

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We included this JDRF Spring Newsletter to expand upon our previous posts. In this issue of the JDRF Spring Newsletter please check out the article about the progress of immune cells to promote beta cell growth.

 
JDRF Spring Newsletter  
JDRF Spring Newsletter
    Spring Synopsis 2014  
     
Your support of JDRF’s plan to turn Type One into Type None has led to real progress. Because of you, research advances like these are possible. Thank you for your commitment to JDRF.
 
  IMMUNE CELLS PROMOTE BETA CELL GROWTH  
Developing therapies to regenerate beta cells lost in T1D is a high priority for JDRF, as they could help people with the disease achieve insulin independence. Now, JDRF-funded researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center are closer to that goal.Data from Joslin’s 50-Year Medalist Study has shown that some people retain some beta cells decades after their diagnosis. Researchers have long suspected that immune cells may play a role in beta cell preservation, but exactly how remained a mystery.In a first-of-its-kind study, Joslin scientists injected nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice with immune cells—subtypes of T cells and B cells—from the pancreatic islets of donor NOD mice. They observed that beta cell growth occurred after the host islets were infiltrated by the immune cells, and that it is specifically the T cells, not the B cells, that are associated with that growth. Further, they found that the immune cells secrete inflammatory cytokines and chemokines—signaling proteins—that work together to enhance beta cell growth.

These results are encouraging. The investigators will next move on to human beta cells and aim to determine whether those signaling proteins can be harnessed to elicit beta cell proliferation.
 
 
  PREVENTING T1D WITH ANTICANCER DRUGS  
Repurposing drugs indicated for other diseases is one of JDRF’s approaches to accelerating the delivery of new therapies to people with T1D. A recent JDRF-funded study in mice determined that low doses of a cancer drug protect against the development of T1D—bringing us one step closer to a potential preventive treatment.Researchers at three Danish universities investigated lysine deacetylase inhibitors—a well-tolerated class of lymphoma drugs—because of their ability to block the molecules that send harmful inflammation signals to pancreatic beta cells. Extremely low doses—doses 100 times lower than those used in cancer treatment—protected the mice’s beta cells from the destructive effects of inflammation and ultimately prevented the development of T1D in the mice. In additional tests, this time on insulin-producing human donor tissues already exposed to the inflammation, the drug delayed the destruction of beta cells.The next step for the research team is to test the drug on those at risk of developing T1D. JDRF will work closely with the investigators as they move forward with this critical step in the translational research process, which is a key part of JDRF’s plan to create a world without T1D.
 
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JDRF is the largest nonprofit funder of type 1 diabetes (T1D) research in the world. Our goal is to eventually cure and prevent T1D entirely. Along the way to a cure, we seek to deliver an ongoing stream of therapies until we have turned Type One into Type None. 
 

 

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