Friends of the Brighton Kidney Walk 2008

What can you do to help?

There are several ways you can help kidney patients and their families:

You can walk with us and ask your friends and family to sponsor you as you walk.
You can help us find sponsors for the walk. We need contacts and people who can open doors to businesses, organizations and groups who might sponsor the walk with a contribution.
You can help with the "wrap-around" events like selling flowers, tulip bulbs, helping with restaurant events, etc.
You can make a financial contribution to the walk as an individual supporter.

Check out these additional information items on this site:

the latest Walk information as developed by the BKW Planning Committee,
ways you can donate to the Walk,
ways individuals or groups can sponsor the Walk through personal websites,
tips for walkers,
a list of sponsors who support the BKW,

The Purpose of the Brighton Kidney Walk
is to raise $100,000 to support the Peer Mentor Program
of the National Kidney Foundation of Michigan for the coming fiscal year. Your help and participation are urgently needed, and there's a lot you can do! Read more. You can Register for the BKW here

We have raised $13,000 of our $100,000 goal as of March 21.

What Happens on the Brighton Kidney Walk?
The Brighton Kidney Walk is the place to see and be seen. The walk serves two purposes.

First, the walk is is a way for kidney disease patients and their families and friends to get the community support they need to keep on going day after day. Life with kidney disease is unbelievably hard. Kidney patients go through torture. They have their lives interrupted and changed so completely. Especially our younger adult patients. But some of them, in fact a lot of them, fight hard and survive. They decide themselves into a new life of living with kidney disease.

Second, through the Brighton Kidney Walk we're giving the community an urgent public health message: "Chronic Kidney Disease is a direct result of three factors that are an epidemic in our society today: diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity."

Did you know that preventing kidney disease is simple?

We need to get checked by a physician, so we "know our numbers."
We need to start eating and exercising in ways that take the weight off and keep it off.

It's simple... but it's not necessarily easy. That's why 1 of every 9 people in Michigan has kidney disease, but most of them don't know it.

That's why your help and your walking with us is so important. The Brighton Kidney Walk is designed to bring many interested, concerned people together in one place to support patients who have this disease, help people understand more about kidney disease and help them learn how to prevent it.

The Latest Significant Dates for Wraparound Events:
May 17th -- Flower Day -- in Brighton from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. 10% of your purchase is donated to the Peer Mentor Program.

June 8th -- Buffalo Wild Wings Benefit in Howell from noon to midnight. 20% of your purchase is donated to the Peer Mentor Program.

Scappare Salon Day in South Lyon -- date TBA, coming soon

August 9th -- A&W Kidney Car Show during Dexter Daze from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. See the cars, have a couple of dogs! A&W Management and staff are committed to the BKW.

August 10th -- Buffalo Wild Wings Benefit in Brighton from noon to midnight. 20% of your purchase is donated to the Peer Mentor Program. We will also be holding our Walk Kickoff at 4:00 p.m. at the Brighton Buffalo Wild Wings location.

STANDBY FOR GALA EVENT at Zingerman's Roadhouse in Ann Arbor. The Zingerman's Roadhouse Benefit for the BKS and the Peer Mentor Program is coming on a Thursday in August. Date is now being selected. This is going to be a KNOCK-OUT event!

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