Dodgeball Can Save Lives

The Best Shot Foundation announces the dates for the Pnock Out Pneumonia Dodgeball Tournaments at colleges throughout the United States.

Contact the Regional Tournament Coordinators to the right for more information pertaining to individual tournaments.  

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The Best Shot Foundation is honored that students at some of this country’s most important universities are joining us in the effort to propel pneumonia onto the public radar as an urgent problem that we have the resources to treat

-David Rubenstein, the Executive Director of the Best Shot Foundation

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

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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.