For funders & partners
The case for funding
T1D resilience
Type 1 diabetes is managed 24 hours a day by children and the adults who love them. Insulin is covered by medicine. The rest — fear, setbacks, school, sports, identity, independence — is where families are left alone. That is the gap we fund.
Documented early institutional investment
$10,000
Early belief made room to build.
Two early investments · Two kinds of institutional belief
In 2024, community members began putting their own dollars behind a young foundation created from one family's experience with Type 1 diabetes. Corporate community investment arrived that year. Foundation philanthropy followed in 2025. Together with those community gifts, more than $10,000 was raised in the Foundation's first years of giving.
Capital history
Equal gifts. Distinct sources. A belief in possibility.
Verified records
$5,000
Amazon
2024 · Corporate community investment
$5,000
Prism Fund at the Maine Community Foundation
2025 · Foundation philanthropy
Those early partners were investing in possibility—not proven scale. Historical contributions are shown from Foundation records. Program names show KWF's evolution, not a claim that either gift solely funded or caused every later initiative. No current endorsement is implied.
The problem
Clinical care ends. Daily life keeps going.
Diagnosis is medical. Daily life isn't.
Families leave the hospital fluent in insulin and carbohydrates and unprepared for school, sports, sleepovers, setbacks, and identity. The clinical curriculum ends where family life begins.
Emotional load drives clinical outcomes.
Burnout, fear of lows, and diabetes distress change how consistently a child manages their condition. Resilience is not a soft add-on to T1D care — it is upstream of adherence.
Support is uneven and often unaffordable.
Psychosocial T1D support is concentrated in well-resourced systems. Families in under-resourced districts and communities of color are least likely to be offered it at all.
Theory of change
How a free curriculum becomes a changed outcome.
Inputs
Lived family expertise, the PIVOT™ framework, a published resilience curriculum, and a digital delivery platform that costs nothing for a family to use.
Activities
Eight free Resilience Bridge™ modules, the T1D Pivot Play™ guided tool, school and clinic programming, books, and community campaigns such as the Bloomfield 100.
Outputs
Modules practiced, PIVOT™ walkthroughs completed, personalized family plans downloaded, schools and clinics trained, families reached without a paywall.
Short-term outcomes
Higher self-reported confidence after a disruption, a named next step in hard moments, and shared language between child, caregiver, and school.
Long-term outcomes
Children who recover faster from setbacks, caregivers who burn out less, and school and clinical environments that support the whole child — not only the numbers.
What we measure
Reporting built into the program, not bolted on after.
Every module and tool records engagement and confidence data as families use it, so grant reporting reflects real practice. Baseline figures are available on request as each cohort completes.
Module completion
Each of the eight Resilience Bridge™ modules records completion, producing an 8-segment progress profile per family.
Confidence change
The T1D Pivot Play™ reflection step captures a 1–10 confidence rating after a real-life scenario is worked through.
Skill practice, not just page views
Interactive activities (pause timer, backpack sort, constellation mapping) are logged as practiced skills rather than time on page.
Plan adoption
Downloads and prints of the personalized “Take It With You” card and printable family plan indicate carry-over beyond the screen.
Reach by audience
Families, schools, clinics, and organizations are tracked separately so funders can see who is actually being served.
Referral and sharing
Peer-to-peer shares from caregivers show organic diffusion inside the T1D community.
Program portfolio
Eight ways we meet a family where they are.
High PQ™ for T1D: The Resilience Bridge™
Flagship 8-module resilience curriculum, free to every family.
T1D Pivot Play™
Guided in-the-moment tool for lows, highs, alarms, school, and sports.
MindCare T1D
Emotional wellness and the psychological realities of chronic disease management.
EMPOWERED
School programming connecting students, families, and educators.
E.A.T.
Enriched Awareness of Type 1 — practical nutrition education.
Mastering Diabetes in Sports
T1D and athletics for young athletes and the adults around them.
Field of Dreams
Youth empowerment through connection, movement, and possibility.
ImpactRise
Access and advocacy — reducing barriers along the diabetes journey.
Stewardship & accountability
What your funding is held to.
- Free by design
- Every Resilience Bridge™ module and tool is free to families. There is no paywall, no upsell, and no cost barrier between a newly diagnosed family and support.
- Built from lived experience
- The curriculum was created by a mother and daughter living with Type 1 diabetes, then structured into a repeatable framework other families can use.
- Privacy first
- Family responses stay on the family's device by default; contact information is collected only with explicit, double opt-in consent.
- Measured, not assumed
- Program engagement and confidence data are captured in-product, so reporting to funders reflects what families actually did.
Kendall Wyche Foundation, Inc. (Rising Above Diabetes) is a 501(c)(3) public charity based in Bloomfield, Connecticut. Program budgets, evaluation plans, and documentation are available to prospective funders on request.
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Fund the bridge for the next family.
Whether you are a foundation program officer, a corporate sponsor, or a family that wants to pay it forward, there is a role in this work sized for you.
Kendall Wyche Foundation, Inc. | 501(c)(3) public charity | Gifts are tax-deductible as allowed by law