National Kidney Foundation Inc.

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2010 to Jun 30, 2011

Signed

Mar 22, 2012

Return Version

2010v3.7

Gross Receipts

$62,608,919

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Professional education - the organization offers multidisciplinary programs to the entire kidney health care team. There are national meetings offering a wide range of topics as well as focused local/regional seminars. The spring clinical nephrology meeting has grown into the nephrology community's premier learning experience with over 3,000 in attendance. A record 300 posters were presented, and this meeting also saw the highest-ever participation in the internal medicine and pediatric trainees program. An advanced practitioner program track was introduced, designed specifically for physician assistants and nurse practitioners, a group that is now caring for kidney patients on the front lines. Since 1981, the organiztaion has published peer-reviewed journals that provide timely insights and information on kidney disease research to the global kidney community. This year, three of the prestigious medical journals published by the organization joined sciencedirect, the premier web distributor of professional level scientific and medical information. With more than 11 million users accessing the site, the journals reached a larger audience than ever before. The organization's kidney learning system program continued to provide comprehensive education about chronic kidney disease (ckd) and how to prevent, treat and manage complications. New resources developed in 2011 focused on identifying and managing risk for kidney disease, and treating all stages of ckd.

Activity 3

Public health education - attracting 5,250,000 visitors in 2011, the organization's website, www.kidney.org, continued to educate and serve as a rich resource on kidney disease. Medical information seekers flooded our a-z health guide pages for comprehensive data on a variety of kidney conditions and issues, including nutrition and treatment options. More than 7,000 tested their kidney iq with our online kidney quiz. E-kidney, the organization's monthly e-newsletter, offered news, kidney-healthy recipes and stories of courage to nearly 180,000 people. E-kidney readership rose 40% this year. Kidney news daily, a daily e-newsletter, delivered breaking news from the print, broadcast and online media to thousands in the kidney care community. The organization continues to focus on educating groups with high risk of kidney disease. Nearly half of african americans have at least one risk factor for kidney disease, but less than 3% believe that chronic kidney disease is a "top health concern", according to a report released this year in the american journal of kidney diseases, the official nkf journal. Since african americans with ckd progress more quickly to kidney failure, the organization doubled its efforts to reach out to this group with information and free screenings held in churches, schools and community centers in african-american neighborhoods.

Filer

EIN

13-1673104