Best Shot Foundation Uses Humor to Launch Dodgeball Fundraiser with Presidential Video

Can dodgeball save lives? We think so. 

To raise public awareness of the global ramifications of childhood pneumonia, the Best Shot Foundation will host the Pnock Out Pneumonia dodgeball tournaments on college campuses nationwide.  To help announce their fundraiser, the Best Shot Foundation produced a humorous video of U.S. Presidents playing dodgeball- sort of. 

Quotes

I signed up for Pnock Out Pneumonia to help raise awareness about this hidden disease and to save young lives. Join me and help keep these kids alive.

-Steve Young, NFL Legend and Hall of Fame Quarterback, Honorary League Commissioner, Pnock Out Pneumonia Dodgeball Games

... anyone looking for a cause should grab pneumonia and run with it. Think of it not as a grim and depressing initiative, but as potentially a happy turnaround opportunity, for these kids’ lives can be so breathtakingly easy to save.

-Nicholas Kristof, New York Times Columnist

Play dodgeball. That's right, I said, play. This innovative idea comes from David Rubenstein...His goal is to raise awareness of pneumonia through a national dodgeball tournament called Pnock Out Pneumonia.

-Dr. Orin Levine, Executive Director, PneumoADIP, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Diarrhoea and pneumonia account for over a third of all under-five deaths, yet almost 2/3 could have been prevented from ever occurring. It is a sad reality that the people who need help the most rarely have access to ... quality health services.

-Dean Hirsch, former President and CEO of World Vision International

Statements

The Best Shot Foundation focuses global awareness and political engagement on childhood pneumonia. Our mission and our work is motivated by the belief that increased public commitment will drive increased health resource allocation.

The following four facts guide our efforts:

1. It's inexcusable for even a single child to die needlessly.

2. Pneumonia is huge - it kills more kids around the world than any other disease (according to UNICEF, pneumonia is deadlier than malaria, measles, and HIV/AIDS combined).

3. Practical solutions such as inexpensive vaccines and antibiotics would save half of these young lives.

4. You can do something simple and effective to help save these children right now.