Why I Walk

This year, I am proud to once again participate in the National Kidney Foundation’s Kidney Walk, joining thousands of supporters throughout our country to raise awareness and the critical funds necessary to help NKF’s fight against kidney disease.

More than 37 million American adults (15% of the adult population) have chronic kidney disease (CKD), yet 90% are undiagnosed. Over 800,000 have irreversible kidney failure, requiring dialysis treatments or a kidney transplant to survive. I know this all too well, as I lost my grandfather, mother, and brother to kidney failure. My story is all too familiar to so many families. 

Your support enables NKF to maintain and expand our current programs. Together, we walk to support the lifechanging work of the National Kidney Foundation:

• To ensure that families will have a place to turn when they need answers.
• To keep up the fight for policy changes to protect kidney patients and living donors.
• To drive innovation in transplantation and get more loved ones off the kidney transplant waitlist.

Our lifechanging work also includes the NKF Innovation Fund to accelerate additional funding for promising opportunities in kidney health by investing in early-to-mid stage companies developing therapies to eliminate preventable kidney disease, eliminate the transplant wait list, and help ensure that dialysis patients have full, productive lives.

Your gracious support helps the National Kidney Foundation do its part! Thank you for your consideration.