Member Benefits Copy

1. Quality:
IFKF - WKA members are recognised as excellent organisations within their own rights, acceptance to membership of IFKF - WKA brings a quality brand to your foundation.

2. Connecting with other foundations:
IFKF - WKA membership brings the opportunity to connect and communicate with similar organisations throughout the world, exchanging ideas and working collaboratively.

IFKF - WKA provides a Newsletter that informs members of key issues and news from around the Global kidney community. The IFKF - WKA annual meetings provide an ideal forum for ideas exchange and collaborative working and membership brings the benefit of reduced registration cost to attend any such meetings.

3. A Global Community fighting kidney disease:
World Kidney Day (WKD), provides members with an ideal opportunity to broaden their reach and to bring a spotlight to their activities as a Foundation. WKD Champions, offer individuals in membership organisations the opportunity to further support the objectives of IFKF - WKA and thier own organisations. IFKF - WKA initiatives such as the CKD, early identification and treatment initiative for Chronic Kidney Disease, promotes a global approach to improved kidney care.

4. Support for your foundation:
Within the IFKF - WKA membership community many larger and more established foundations offer support to developing foundations via our kidney foundations partnership programmes, KFPP. IFKF - WKA coordinates training and development initiatives, particularly for professions allied to healthcare.

IFKF - WKA members can use IFKF - WKA developed communication tools to support their organisations objectives. IFKF - WKA endorsement of local initiatives can assist your Foundations ultimate success.

5. Influence in support of kidney initiatives:
The Collective voice provided by being a member of our global organisation allows a stronger influence in advocacy and lobbying. WKD is an ideal vehicle to deliver influence in support of kidney issues both locally and internationally.

Membership offers the right to vote on issues that drive IFKF - WKA strategy and objectives, further effecting the influence of the IFKF - WKA globally.

6. Access to funding:
IFKF - WKA membership allows your foundation to apply for grants and awards, which are made available to support educational and developmental activity. Travel grants can be available to assist smaller member foundations and individuals to attend annual meetings.

The IFKF - WKA Mission and Objectives

• Help member kidney foundations grow to highly effective organizations.
• Encourage and assist in the formation of new kidney foundations where needed around the world.
• Develop and grow a strong core of individual members, representative of all disciplines relevant to kidney care.
• Help develop a more professional and effective leadership in kidney care, with a focus on developing new and young leaders.
• Make World Kidney Day more successful and influential.
• Lead the way in early detection, prevention and treatment of kidney disease through its membership on all continents of the world.
• Make global kidney care advocacy more powerful and influential.
• Promote global interactions with other professional, patient and commercial organisations.
• Improve global fundraising opportunities for kidney related issues.