Your Support Can Save Lives
For a person with Type 1 diabetes, insulin is a lifeline. Without it, they can die within 36 hours. Yet many of our patients are already rationing the insulin they need to stay alive—and the situation is growing more dire.
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For more than 20 years, our program in East Los Angeles has fueled life-changing research and provided essential care to a community with some of the highest rates of diabetes in the country. Embedded in a trusted community health center, our work caring for underserved patients has been sustained by competitive research grants and the generosity of donors. Today, those grants have ended, and our donor funds are depleted. The result is stark: We are out of funding, even as the need around us grows.
Our team—made up of people from East LA who are deeply trusted by the community—continues to be a lifeline for patients now at risk of losing Medi-Cal coverage and too afraid to seek care elsewhere. They are calling us for help. We must answer.
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​​Your gift will allow us to provide insulin, essential medications, and hands-on support to people who are losing access to the care that keeps them alive.
Thank you.
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Two Ways To Give
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Just one gift, no matter the amount, can transform care for someone living with diabetes in Los Angeles, and beyond.
Make your impact today.
Please include the following memo with your donation:
The purpose of the gift is to support the USC Anne L. Peters Diabetes Fund (the “Fund”) (GF1017198), an existing current use fund whose purpose is support diabetes research currently under the guidance of Dr. Anne Peters at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. The Donor understands that the gift will be administered in accordance with the University’s administrative guidelines and procedures.
It is understood that as research and academic programs move forward, there is the possibility that it may become impractical for this gift to serve the specific purpose identified noted in this memo. If this unlikely circumstance should occur, the University will consult with the Donor, if possible, or the Donor’s estate, if feasible, and absent mutual agreement, any unexpended funds would be returned to Donor or Donor’s estate.
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What Your Support Funds
Our progress in advancing diabetes care—including device innovation, new treatments, and critical work to improve health equity—has been possible only because of donor support. Unlike many medical specialties, diabetes programs are not sustained by billable procedures.
They require dedicated funding to exist at all. Without the generosity of our supporters, the programs that keep our patients healthy and safe simply would not be possible.
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Your gift will foster the following life-saving initiatives:
​​ ​• Continued development, testing and dissemination of culturally sensitive, lower-literacy diabetes educational tools
• Innovative pilot projects in the communities of East and South L.A. aimed at reducing rates of obesity and diabetes
• Development of a training program for nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician fellows to treat patients with diabetes —
vitally important given a growing shortage of expert practitioners
• Research into newer technologies for people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, which has the potential to free patients from the roller-
coaster cycle of high and low blood sugar
• Development of a new program in islet cell biology and replacement for the treatment of insulin deficient diabetes
• Advocacy work to:
1) convince health insurers (including Medicare and Medi-Cal) to pay for needed diabetes tools and treatments,
2) persuade the FDA to adopt more realistic outcome goals for developing diabetes medications, and
3) meet with Congressional Representatives to influence research and healthcare policy
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