Donate
The September Pledge Drive is over. Thank-you. It has been incredibly successful.
We are working on fulfilling all of the gifts we promised. We will have a summary of the pledge drive soon.
Though the drive is over, NephJC is always willing to accept donations.
Why
NephJC is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. No one makes a dime running the place but we do have expenses.
We have a number of different domains that must be registered and maintained. Cha Ching! (NephJC.com, Flozinator.com, NephRun.com, The Skeleton Key Group, NSMC.blog, FreelyFiltered.com, Rosebook.club, NephMadness.com (yeah, we pay for that one), VisualAbstract.org, Tweetorial.org, etc…)
This website, along with the NSMC website, Channel Your Enthusiasm, and The Skeleton Key are all hosted on SquareSpace. And those fees pile up.
The NephJC trophies are expensive, especially when you need to ship them around the world.
We pay software licenses for Zoom, Auphonic, Descript, and other services that allow us to create and provide FOAMed. We pay for our stock photos.
No one item is that expensive (well actually the trophies are quite expensive) but it adds up.
And we have get togethers once or twice a year. We did a bowling outing at the last in-person KIDNEYCon, we did a bar night at NKF Spring Clinical 2022, and we regularly have Tweet-ups at #KidneyWk.
NephJC Tweet-up in 2018, San Diego, California
We have funded this in a number of ways. Our first year we passed the hat around to our NephJC work Group to raise money. Satellite Healthcare has been a long time and regular contributor and supporter to NephJC. In 2019, Arkana gave us a generous three year unrestricted grant. That was awesome! And last year, The Flozinator Pin really funded us through the year. But the till is empty and we need money.
Our bylaws prevent us from getting money or support from Pharma. We feel, that given our mission, it is an unacceptable conflict. However, cutting off the deepest pockets makes raising money difficult.
Our dream is that NephJC, and its associated activities, can be supported by our users. I think that is the best way to assure continued, unbiased, free, medical education. We won’t ever close the doors to people that don’t (or can’t) pay. We want a Wikipedia- and NPR-style funding system, where people that use our resources, whether that is the podcasts, the website, the visual abstracts, or the Twitter chats, support the project.
So we are running the NephJC September Pledge Drive. We are asking you to pony up and keep this project going as it has for almost 9 years. Please choose a level and do the right thing:
Case report: $25: NephJC pin
Case-control: $50: NephJC T-shirt
Meta analysis: $100: The new, collectible, limited edition, Golden Flozinator Pin
Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, trial: $500: a Sport-Tek Half Zip NephJC Pull Over
The money goes to running NephJC. You are not purchasing the above products. Those are gifts to thank-you for your donation. All donations are tax-deductible in the US.