NephJC is an independant, user-supported, medical education organization dedicated to providing the best post-publication peer review to every nephrologist around the world at no cost. We leverage Free-Open Access Medical Education to bring deep, thoughtful analysis on 26 manuscripts a year. Half of those are covered additionally by our podcast, Freely Filtered. We do this with no industry support. NephJC is entirely dependent on the generosity of our readers.
We have been doing this for 11 years. Please help us keep going for the next 11.
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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, 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 KIDNEYCon, we did a bar night at NKF Spring Clinical, and we regularly have get togethers at #KidneyWk (including this year, keep evening of November 7th open).
NephJC Tweet-up in 2018, San Diego
The Freely Filtered Kidney Week Draft from 2023 in Philadelphia
Tim Yau killing it from the NephJC Night 2024 in San Diego
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 in 2022, The Flozinator Pin 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 our annual NephJC Fall Pledge Drive. We are asking you to pony up and keep this project going as it has for over 11 years. Please choose a level and do the right thing. 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.