The CHEST Foundation is excited to announce that the NetWorks Challenge will be reinvented for 2020! Instead of raising funds to support travel grants to CHEST’s Annual Meeting as in previous years, the NetWorks Challenge will focus on raising funds to support COVID-19 community service grants. With so many people suffering due to the pandemic, we believe this change will make a tangible impact on the lives of people who need it most.
To date, the CHEST Foundation has dispersed over $60,000 in payments for patient support groups that provide services to those living with chronic lung disease, and we hope this year’s efforts will enable us to continue this work. For every $2,500 raised by a NetWork, the CHEST Foundation will provide a grant to a community support group in need.
While providing vulnerable populations with funds to purchase essential items (PPE, cleaning supplies, emergency food purchases, etc), each grant will be named in honor of the NetWork raising the funds, and all stories of impact will be shared with NetWorks’ members, once they are available.
The NetWorks Challenge spans from Monday, July 20, to the end of Board Review on August 22, and members can easily designate their donation to their NetWork on the CHEST Foundation’s donor page.
In addition to receiving named recognition of your NetWork, the NetWork that raises the most funds, along with the NetWork with the highest percentage of participation, will receive additional prizes, including two complimentary registrations to CHEST 2020. These registrations are specifically for early-career clinicians and fellows-in-training, which will be selected by each NetWorks’s steering committee.
For every $5,000 raised by a NetWork, that NetWork will receive one complimentary registration to CHEST 2020, which will be awarded to their early-career and fellows-in-training as selected by that NetWorks’s steering committee.
In addition to directly impacting patients across the United States, NetWorks members will have a chance to test their knowledge against their peers by participating in a NetWork Challenge Game Series, where they will be asked a series of hand-selected board review questions each week through the end of Board Review.
For additional Information about the NetWorks Challenge, visit the CHEST Foundation’s website.