American Kidney Fund Announces Corporate Membership Program for Institutional Partners Supporting Fight Against Kidney Disease – Press Release

ROCKVILLE, MD / ACCESSWIRE / June 22, 2020 / The American Kidney Fund (AKF) at the moment introduced a brand new corporate membership program open to institutional companions that help AKF’s core mission of preventing kidney illness and serving to individuals dwell more healthy lives.

“By means of our new company membership program, AKF’s institutional companions are giving a transparent vote of confidence to our broad vary of packages and companies that make a transparent and tangible distinction on daily basis within the lives of People dwelling with kidney illness and people in danger,” stated LaVarne A. Burton, AKF president and CEO. “This program gives important direct help that helps fund our work preventing kidney illness on all fronts-from prevention via post-transplant dwelling.”

The constitution members of AKF’s company membership program are Amgen, AstraZeneca and GSK, on the Champion degree; Tricida, Inc. on the Patron degree; and extra constitution members Akebia Therapeutics, Inc.; Alexion Prescribed drugs, Inc.; Ardelyx; Biotechnology Innovation Group; Horizon Therapeutics plc; Omeros Company; Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.; Relypsa, Inc.; Sanofi Genzyme; and Vertex Prescribed drugs Integrated.

AKF, which touches the lives of extra kidney sufferers immediately than some other kidney nonprofit, spends 97 cents of every donated greenback on sufferers and packages, not overhead – giving company members confidence that their investments in AKF’s work are stewarded for max influence.

Company membership in AKF helps fund the group’s important work, together with:

• Award-winning kidney well being schooling assets obtainable with out cost to the general public and well being care professionals, reaching thousands and thousands of People every year
• The nation’s largest free kidney well being screening program
• Advocacy for public coverage that improves the well being of individuals and households affected by kidney illness
• Innovation via medical analysis and strategic partnerships
• Alternatives for sufferers and households to attach with one another

To be taught extra about AKF’s company membership program, please contact Fiona Lawless, senior director of company engagement, at flawless@kidneyfund.org or 301.984.6635.

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The American Kidney Fund (AKF) fights kidney illness on all fronts because the nation’s main kidney nonprofit. AKF works on behalf of the 37 million People dwelling with kidney illness, and the thousands and thousands extra in danger, with an unmatched scope of packages that help individuals wherever they’re of their battle in opposition to kidney illness – from prevention via transplant. With packages that deal with early detection, illness administration, monetary help, medical analysis, innovation and advocacy, no kidney group impacts extra lives than AKF. AKF is among the nation’s top-rated nonprofits, investing 97 cents of each donated greenback in packages, and holds the best 4-Star score from Charity Navigator and the Platinum Seal of Transparency from GuideStar.

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