NKF Serving New England

2025 Evening of Giving

Join us on Saturday, March 15, 2025 for an Evening of Giving to honor those in our community who go above and beyond helping those with kidney disease.

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Video of 2024 Boston and New England Kidney Walk

2025 Boston Kidney Walk

We are back for 2025!

 

The Boston and New England Kidney walk will take place on Sunday, October 05, 2025 at the Sylvester Baxter Riverfront Park. Registration is now open! Click the button below to register your team early and begin your fundraising journey.

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To honor National Kidney Month this March, our Community Book for Kidney Patients is here!

The book includes important resources for local patients including kidney-healthy recipes and information about how to access additional NKF resources and information online.

 

As the true highlight of the book, it contains stories and experiences shared by local kidney patients covering transplant, dialysis, living donation, and issues related to kidney disease.

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Translated Materials

Research shows that providing health education in a patient's native language can: 

 

  • Enhance quality of care,
  • Improve trust between patients and physicians,
  • Increase patient satisfaction, and
  • Lead to better health outcomes. 

 

NKF New England is proud to provide translated health education materials to dozens of kidney care partners and thousands of patients across Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont. We provide resources in a variety of languages – both in hard copy and online – to regional hospitals, transplant centers, and dialysis clinics to improve accessibility and New England kidney patients’ healthcare experience. 

 

As language is tied to culture – and as effective healthcare requires an understanding of cultural beliefs, practices, and preferences – translated materials are an impactful and necessary evidence-based practice to confront and reduce health disparities for kidney patients.

 

To learn more, request materials, or sponsor this impactful program, please email NKFNE Director, Programs Desirae.Vasquez@kidney.org. 

Other Things We Are Working On

Council on Renal Nutrition New England (CRNNE)

Are you a dietitian in New England interested in renal nutrition? Join the National Kidney Foundation serving New England Council on Renal Nutrition!

 

Benefits to joining our chapter:

  • Networking
  • Resume building
  • Free registration to events
  • First to know about NKF opportunities for RDs

 

Complete this form to get involved, or email us at: CRNNewengland@gmail.com

 

Calling all New England Dieticians!

We need your help planning our Fall 2025 Dietician's Conference. Please take our 3 question Conference Preferences Survey using the button below.

SAVE THE DATE! Fall 2025 Council for Renal Nutrition New England Dietician Conference: Wednesday, October 1, 2025

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Patient Education

Missed a patient education webinar?

No worries! Review the latest information about kidney disease, transplantation, and nutrition. Our popular program, Cooking with Konfidence has been conducted in Chinese and Spanish.
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Advocacy

Here is what the staff at NKF New England are working on!

New England Advocacy News

This past March, we received proclamations by the governors in Massachusetts declaring March 2024 World Kidney Month! In the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, we received a resolution recognizing March 2024 as World Kidney month.
Advocacy Resources

Employee Wellness

Your Kidneys & You

Medicare alone spends $87 billion caring for individuals with kidney disease. Go from "zero" to "kidney consciousness" in less than 3 minutes with our Your Kidneys and You video! This can be embedded on corporate Intranets as part of an employee wellness program, shown at community health fairs, or shared with members of your organization.
 
For information on the above program please contact Program Director, Desirae Vasquez, at Desirae.Vasquez@kidney.org .

Ask Your Employer About Participating in a Drive For Dialysis Event!

Does your company have a volunteer day? Ask them to consider a Drive for Dialysis Event! These are great volunteer events hosted at corporate locations for staff to learn about kidney disease and put together bags of items for dialysis patients. The volunteers are provided with materials that are helpful to local dialysis patients to be pulled together in a tote bag and they add a personal message for the bag recipient. NKF then delivers these bags to a local dialysis center. Staff learn about kidney health, hear from a patient speaker, and create care packages that are very meaningful for local patients.
 
Hosting a Drive for Dialysis event is easy! Ask your company if they would have a volunteer event for staff with our out-of-the-box program. We'll work with the company to design a volunteer opportunity that meets your company's unique needs! For more information please contact Desirae Vasquez at Desirae.Vasquez@kidney.org .

Kidney Friendly Recipes

Want to dig into some fun, kidney friendly recipes? Check out our ever-growing list of recipes Here.

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