T1D Warriors volunteers setting up a community event tent at dusk

Warrior Volunteer

Somebody gets diagnosed today.
Be the reason they are not alone.

Two ways in. One takes an hour a week from your kitchen table. The other puts you on a fairway firing a cannon. Both of them put help in a family's hands.

From anywhereOne hour a weekYou do not have to live here, leave the house, or know what to say. The message is already written.Start the remote track →On the groundRun the cannonNorthern Kentucky and Greater Cincinnati. Golf outings, tents, gear, families. A few hours, real fun.Join the on-site crew →

Why this matters

It starts in a hospital room. A parent is handed a diagnosis, a bag of supplies, and a crash course in keeping their kid alive. Then they go home, and the first night is the longest one of their life.

That is the moment T1D Warriors exists for. A Warrior Start kit shows up. A continuous glucose monitor gets funded. Insulin arrives before somebody starts rationing. A scholarship makes camp possible for a kid who thought T1D took that away.

None of that happens on its own. Every kit, every monitor, every event is downstream of somebody deciding to give a little bit of their time. Right now that somebody is a very short list of people. It should be you.

Before you talk yourself out of it

You do not need to be an expert

I do not have time.

One hour a week, from your couch, on your schedule. No meetings, no shifts, no committee.

I would not know what to say.

The words are already written. You pick who should hear it and press send. That is the whole job.

I do not have T1D.

Neither do most of our volunteers. You do not need a medical background to help a family get what they need.

Pick your path

Two ways in. Both count.

Most people know within about ten seconds which one is theirs. If you want both, say so on the application and we will set you up for both.

A volunteer sending program outreach from a laptop at home

Track one

From anywhere

You are not fundraising and you are not cold calling. You think of people and places that would care, and the app does the rest.

WhereAnywhere. No travel.
TimeAbout an hour a week
  1. Add someone who would care: a golf course, a clinic, a school, an employer, a church.
  2. Pick the ready-made message for the program that fits them.
  3. Press send. The app delivers it and keeps every reply in one place.

You never have to cold call anybody. You just have to think of who should know.

Apply for the remote track
Volunteers firing the golf ball cannon at a charity golf outing

Track two

On the ground

Show up, work a few hours, go home tired and grinning. This is the crew that makes event days happen.

WhereNKY and Greater Cincinnati
TimeA few hours per event
  1. Show up at the outing and run the golf ball cannon. It is loud, it is fun, people line up for it.
  2. Work the tent: hand out gear, take names, keep the energy going.
  3. Talk with families who just got the diagnosis and let them know they are not on their own.

Be honest: firing a cannon full of golf balls for a good cause is genuinely fun.

Apply for the on-site crew

No medical background needed and you do not have to live with T1D. Volunteers under 18 are welcome with a parent or guardian on the application, and roles that work directly with youth include a background check during onboarding.

What your hour turns into

This is the other end of it

Warrior Start

A kit on a kitchen table during the worst week of a family's life.

Warrior Watch

A continuous glucose monitor on a kid whose family could not afford one.

Warrior Lifeline

Insulin in the fridge when somebody was about to start rationing.

Scholarships

Camp and college paid for, because an outing raised the money.

Get in early

You would be founding crew

We are building this volunteer program right now. You would not be volunteer number four hundred filling a slot on somebody's spreadsheet. You would be one of the first people in, helping decide how this thing actually runs.

Small also means nothing gets lost. A real person on our team reads every application, usually within a few days, and you will hear back from them directly.

It takes one hour. It takes one person.

Pick the path that fits your life and apply. That is the whole ask. Somewhere out there is a family who finds out today, and what happens next depends on people like you deciding to be in.

Volunteer from anywhereJoin the on-site crew

Cannot give time right now? A gift keeps the programs running.