by PKD Foundation Staff | May 2, 2019 | Awareness, Education
If you follow us on social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn), we hope you’ve already heard about our exciting new partnership with Discovery Communications / Discovery en Español. Knowing how important it is to share information about polycystic kidney...
by PKD Foundation Staff | Mar 22, 2019 | Awareness, Education
For this week of National Kidney Month, our challenge to you was to tell someone new! Spreading the word is an empowering thing you can do for the community, no matter how PKD affects you. To show this, we asked our Marketing Specialist, Tierra Hogan, a non-patient,...
by PKD Foundation Staff | Mar 4, 2019 | Advocacy, Awareness, Education
This past week, 450 rare disease advocates and patients descended on Washington, D.C., for Rare Disease Week, and I was glad to be amongst them. It was a packed agenda with four days of activities and awareness opportunities and I’d like to share the highlights:...
by PKD Foundation Staff | Feb 14, 2019 | Awareness, Transplantation
We’re spreading double the love today for National Donor Day! In the US alone, more than 120,000 people are waiting for a life-saving organ donation. We recently reached out to New England Chapter Co-Coordinator Judy Ehrlich to share how her donor has impacted...
by PKD Foundation Staff | Feb 4, 2019 | Chapters
Our nationwide Chapters are a wonderful way to connect with your local PKD community! New York City Chapter Co-Coordinators Sarah Giller and Meg Munits know this best, and were excited to share how getting involved impacted their PKD journeys: PKDF: Tell us a little...
