For 15 years, Carlisa Jones has encouraged Johns

Hopkins’ participation in the Juvenile Diabetes

Research Foundation Walk for a Cure, signing up

fundraising team captains and walkers who have

raised tens of thousands of dollars in donations.

Jones has personally raised nearly $14,500 the

past two years. As Johns Hopkins’ lead campaign

organizer, she encourages colleagues to increase

their financial support, solicits donations for snacks from supermarket chains and organizes an awards luncheon for the department captains.

  Fundraising took on special significance when her husband, Dean, became a patient at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center for non-Hodgkin

lymphoma. The couple organized a charity which netted nearly $7,500 for pediatric oncology and juvenile diabetes research.

  Other charitable activities involve volunteering for the annual Henrietta Lacks celebration in Turner Station, participating in Johns Hopkins’ holiday

Adopt-A-Family program and donating new toys to the Turner Station Recreation Council Christmas drive for children.