History of the RRDi

There was a post at a Yahoo group in  November 23, 2002 that started the idea of making a non profit organization for rosacea sufferers to collaborate together. 

The Rosacea Research & Development Institute began as an idea by the founder, Brady Barrows, on November 23, 2002 when he founded the following yahoo group:

health.groups.yahoo.com/group/international-rosacea-society

The above yahoo group was changed on July 24, 2004 to:

health.groups.yahoo.com/group/irosacea

And then later changed on February 14, 2005 to this yahoo group:

health.groups.yahoo.com/group/rosacea-research

The above yahoo group was deleted June 7, 2006 since the private forum for corporate members began in April/May 2006. Since then, Yahoo Groups has been removed from the internet. 

A need for a non-profit organization that heard the voice of rosaceans suffering from this disease was seen early on and discussion continues to this day. Upon moving to Hawaii the founder discovered that forming a non-profit organization in this state would be simpler than in other states and applied for approval as a non-profit corporation. A Charter was set up. The non profit recognition was approved on June 7, 2004 by the State of Hawaii and after a lengthy period, tax-exempt approval as a 501 (c) (3) non profit organization was obtained by the IRS in January 2006 and recognition was effective back to June 7, 2004. This process took over a year and a half. More details of all this are written in the article Why Form Another Non Profit Organization For Rosacea?

The Board of Directors were chosen by the corporation members and the officers were appointed in January 2005. More board members were added in 2006 and later.

The web site is constantly being improved by volunteers. Volunteers are seeking funding and you can join us to seek corporate donations, seek grants, or find the best minds to join the RRDi MAC, the only medical advisory committee volunteering to find a cure for rosacea, listen to corporate RRDi members' concerns and advise the board of directors on the direction the RRDi should go. Several private member forums were experimented which have not proven popular. For a number of years the RRDi recommended Warren Stuart's www.rosaceagroup.org as the public forum and volunteers have made the private forum for corporate members on the irosacea.org web site. To use the public forum you must join the RRDi. This public corporate member forum is where decisions are discussed. The public forum can be found at this url:

http://irosacea.org/forums

Steve Andreessen spent many volunteer hours on not only the above IPB forum (now called Invision Community)  but also our web site. Warren Stuart has also spent many hours volunteering on the web site as well. Under Warren's direction we purchased the Invision Power Services forum (now called Invision Community). Sadly, Warren Stuart passed away. David Pascoe took over Warren's Rosacea Forum. The focus of the RRDi for years has been to gather together the best minds on rosacea into the RRDi Medical Advisory Committee, gathering volunteers to raise public awareness of the RRDi in the Public Relations Committee and to increase RRDi membership, and finally to increase funding through volunteer efforts in the Funding Committee by volunteers. You can see the results of all this volunteer effort and you can become part of it by joining with just an email address. You may want to read the Message from the Founder and our post about Anonymity, Transparency and Posting before joining.

The RRDi has been affiliated with sponsoring Tapatalk since some users prefer using Tapatalk on mobile devices. In 2019 we have sponsored a private Tapatalk Rosaceans Forum.