Introducing the 2025 Core Kidney Rose Parade!
Circle of CORE Kidney Foundation: Nurturing Kidney Health, Inspiring Awareness
Vision: Supporting patients and their families with kidney disease to increase quality of life by increasing awareness and impacting the process of live kidney donation.
Mission: Our mission is to empower individuals impacted by kidney disease by providing education, guidance, and support throughout their journey. We are committed to facilitating living kidney donation, advocating for streamlined processes, and celebrating the selflessness of donors. Through outreach and care coordination, we aim to improve patient well-being and foster a community of awareness and support.
CORE Kidney was honored to win the prestigious 2024 Isabella Coleman Award for Most Outstanding Presentation of Color and Color Harmony Through Floral Design for its entry “The Gift of Life: A Tune That Never Fades.”
We are very pleased to announce our participation in the 136th Second Annual Rose Parade, where CORE Kidney will have our Rose Parade float on January 1st, 2025, in Pasadena, California. We seek to bring together passionate advocates for KIDNEY HEALTH, and we would like to invite you to participate and be our major supporter! Our float is hosted by Circle of CORE Kidney Foundation – a non-profit patient support and advocacy group formed by kidney patients, their caregivers and living kidney donors. The mission of this float is to honor our living kidney donors by increasing KIDNEY HEALTH awareness – a huge unmet need.
Join us for a beautiful morning, as we honor kidney champions whose efforts have transformed lives. A kidney donation not only helps a patient and their family but the entire society and humanity. This is a once-in-a-lifetime event, and we would be honored to have you join us with your support!
Thank you all for supporting a highly successful inaugural participation in the Rose Parade.
We won the highly prestigious Isabella Coleman Award!
Kidney Donation Awareness &
Advocacy
ANNUAL KIDNEY GALA
UPCOMING Events
Circle of CORE Kidney Foundation:
Circle of CORE Kidney Foundation is a patient advocacy and support group formed by grateful kidney patients, their caregivers, and living kidney donors. Dr Anjay Rastogi, MD PhD, Professor and Clinical Chief of Nephrology at UCLA Health, was the inspiration behind the formation of this non-profit foundation.
The foundation’s purpose is to support and further the work of the UCLA Health CORE Kidney Program and other similar-minded institutions and organizations advancing kidney care. Our CORE principles are Clinical Excellence, Outreach, Research, and Education.
We aim to help and support kidney patients and their families each step along this long, arduous, and often frightening kidney journey and let them know that they are not alone.
Rose Parade
The Circle of CORE Kidney Foundation is proud to have a float in the upcoming Rose Parade on January 1st, 2024.
Support us by purchasing a rose, please text buyarose to 41444 and support us in changing the outcome of the 10’s of millions of people with kidney disease.
Educational CHATS
What Kidney Patients should Know
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Learn & Share: Join Our Kidney Health Events
Explore our free CORE Kidney events. Gain insights, improve well-being, and prevent health issues. Register now for a healthier future together. Join us!
Give Back: Make a Difference
Learn more about Kidney Health:
- The silent killer that effects 1 in every 7 adults, with 1 in 3 at risk.
- 9 out of 10 patients go undiagnosed. A simple blood and urine test can give you a diagnosis.
- 2024 is Kidney Disease Awareness Year.
- Living donors are true hero’s that selflessly give the Gift of Life.
Or contact us at info@corekidney.org
If you are experiencing any of the following symptoms of kidney disease: generalized swelling, especially in the legs, feet and around the eyes; frothiness of urine; fatigue and malaise; blood in the urine; high blood pressure; nausea and vomiting; and poor appetite please contact your medical provider.