Impact Fund 2026
Bring color to a future made possible by YOU.
Bring Color, Create Possibility
What is the Impact Fund?
When you give to the Impact Fund, you aren’t simply funding a program. You’re helping a child find their people. You’re giving a parent a place to exhale. You’re helping a family feel understood. And you’re creating more moments where life with T1D feels a little less heavy and a lot more connected.
Your generosity brings color to life with type 1 diabetes.
A T1D diagnosis can drain the color out of a family’s world overnight. Suddenly, everything is more complicated, more isolating, and full of things families never expected to carry. The DFC helps families find something different: people who understand, places where they belong, and experiences that remind them they are not alone.
The Impact Fund makes that possible.
Each fall, our community comes together for one concentrated fundraising effort to ensure families across North Carolina and beyond can access the programs and connections they need—regardless of what they can afford.
Bring Color. Create Possibility!
Bring Color
Ways to Bring Color and Create Possibility
Choose how you want to bring color to the T1D community.
Give Color
Donate to the Impact Fund and help create connection, confidence, and community for people and families living with T1D.
Make a Gift and brighten our community with connections and possibilities!
Create Color
Start your own fundraising team and invite your friends, family, coworkers, or community to bring color to the community together!
Team Leaders gain exclusive access and updates to materials, prizes, and Special Announcements.
Share Color
Join a team, spread the word, and help bring more people into a community where no one has to navigate T1D alone.
Share your DFC story with those you love and watch your team create programs & possibilities for the T1D community.
Create Possibility
See the difference every donation can make for families living with T1D.
$10
Sends a family to a Camp to Community event
$25
Sends a PMA Care Package to a child struggling with T1D burnout
$300
Sends a teen to a retreat weekend built just for them
$500
Covers the cost of low snacks for 1 day at Camp Morris
$850
Sends a family of 4 to a retreat weekend where they experience Camp together
$1,000
Covers Camp Morris fee for 1 camper
$1,800
Covers the full cost for a camper to attend Camp Morris for one week
Every gift brings more connection, confidence, and community.
Where does the money go?
87 cents of every dollar raised goes directly into programming that supports the T1D community.
A week where kids living with T1D find their people, build confidence, and experience the joy of camp surrounded by others who understand.
One-day camp experiences that bring connection, education, and medically supported fun closer to home.
Time for families to step away from the daily demands of T1D, reconnect, and find support from people walking a similar path.
Community Support
Resources, connections, and moments of encouragement that help families find support and know they don’t have to navigate T1D alone.
A chance for teens living with T1D to step away from the everyday, connect with peers who get it, and build confidence for the journey ahead.
So cost never stands between a family and the community, connection, and experiences they need.
More Camp
More chances for kids living with T1D to unplug, have fun, find their people, experience the connection, learn to lead, and gain confidence that only camp can create.
You could win
Camp Morris Golden Ticket
A guaranteed spot at Camp Morris for 2027.
DFC Program Golden Ticket
A guaranteed spot at a DFC program of your choice in 2027.
Beach Getaway
Spend a long weekend at Ocean Isle Beach on The DFC.
DFC Swag
Win a DFC swag box with all the newest merch for The DFC.
The impact your color brings
It has been 31 years since I attended camp. I am now 42, have a wife, 2 very active and busy teenage sons, and a full-time career. BUT, the impact of that camp experience all those years ago (and the 5 more years as a camper, and many more as a counselor and volunteer), is why I choose to be involved today, and why I’m grateful to be a member of the board for the DFC. It is because that community, that family I met 31 years ago, which is the exact same community that founded and comprises the DFC today, that I’m involved. I choose to be involved because my hope is that every kid, every family member, and every person impacted by diabetes has that same experience; that they have a community to “lean on.”
When our daughter Caroline was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, our family’s world changed in an instant. Like so many parents, we were overwhelmed with questions, uncertainty, and the weight of learning how to care for a child with a chronic illness. While we quickly learned how to count carbohydrates, administer insulin, and monitor blood sugars, what we needed most was something much deeper. We needed to know that we were not alone.
That is exactly what the Diabetes Family Connection gave us.
From the very beginning, The DFC welcomed our family into a community of people who understood our journey without explanation. We found other parents who had experienced the same fears, children who were thriving despite their diagnosis, and volunteers who reminded us that hope is stronger than uncertainty. We realized that type 1 diabetes would always be part of Caroline’s life, but it did not have to define her or our family.
Growing up with type 1 diabetes, I often felt different from my peers and overwhelmed by the daily realities of shots, finger sticks, and constant blood sugar fluctuations. Camp Morris and The Diabetes Family Connection changed that. They showed me that even when diabetes felt heavy, there was always a way forward—and always someone ready to lend a hand.
From nine years as a camper to now serving as a counselor, I’ve seen firsthand the magic that comes from the DFC community and its programs. The DFC hasn’t just helped me become a better manager of my diabetes—it has helped shape me into the person I am today.
Camp is truly my second home! At camp, I’m always learning new things about diabetes and about myself. It brings such a sense of community. Everyone is so loving and supportive, and there’s no place I’d rather be. I don’t think there’s anyone in the world who knows me better than my camp family does.
Words can’t describe how appreciative we are to [The DFC] for such an amazing [Camp to Community] event. We all left the event feeling more positive about T1D and made so many great friends. From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU!!