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We provide assistance to qualifying persons with diabetes throughout the United States.
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Lahle
A. Wolfe iPump.org, Inc. |
Accomplishments of Lahle A. Wolfe Ms. Wolfe is the original founder of iPump and is largely responsible for the impressive growth of the organization. In less than two years, she has turned iPump into the largest, and only, full-service, diabetes assistance organization serving the entire United States. To date, iPump has received nearly one million dollars in in-kind donations and has provided assistance to thousands of people in 46 states. Ms. Wolfe is the first, and only person, to successfully partner a nonprofit organization with an insulin pump company to facilitate the recertification of used insulin pumps, that are then distributed for free to diabetics in need. No other organization currently has this privilege, or serves this need. Ms. Wolfe is the owner and president of Islets of Hope (IOH), a health-on-the-net certified diabetes information website. The website lists thousands of legal and financial resources for people with diabetes, and allows other business owners living with diabetes to advertise for free on the site. Ms. Wolfe is a paid writer for the New York Times (NYT), and created and authors a website for the NTY for business women. She has written publications on the legal rights of diabetics in public schools and the workplace which have been adopted by the New Mexico Department of Health. Ms. Wolfe and her personal and professional accomplishments as a diabetes advocate have been featured in numerous media, including the “Washington Post,” “Woman’s Day Magazine,” “Diabetes Forecast Magazine,” “The San Francisco Chronicle,” “USA Today,” and on WedMD. |
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Background and Professional Experience: Ms. Wolfe has been actively involved in nonprofit and patient advocacy work since 1995. She founded iPump.org, Inc. in June of 2006, and volunteered more than 6,500 hours of her professional time to establish and work as a volunteer executive director for the organization to ensure a solid beginning. Ms. Wolfe handles all iPump’s day-to-day operations including inventory management of all in-kind donations and shipments; processing client applications; maintaining the corporation’s website and intranet; authors newsletters, publications, and grants. Ms. Wolfe has been actively involved with the Disability Rights and Defense Education Fund (DREDF) and the American Diabetes Association (ADA) in successfully changing California Laws regarding the rights of students with diabetes in public schools. She serves on the national-level Advocacy Committee for the American Diabetes Association, and is a professional member of the California Diabetes Coalition, and serves as a mentor for other business women through MicroMentor, and the Women’s Mentor Network. Ms. Wolfe has type 2 diabetes, a child with type 1 diabetes, and a child with Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY) who has battled associated, life-long kidney complications. |
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