Chairs' Challenge
Chairs, we need your help turning the Chairs' Challenge map to a sea of green.
Just donate or pledge $1,000 today, then ask the AACEM members in your state to join you. Together, you can turn your state GREEN this year!
- Each year the academic chairs of EM show their collective support for emergency care research and training by donating to SAEMF.
- Your giving helps to support more and larger SAEMF grants. Many of these go to your own departments' researchers and educators.
- We hope this will be the year that we see 100% participation from AACEM Chairs in each state making 2025 the year the map “goes green.”
- Share this web page with your state's Chairs and encourage them to join you in supporting so that yours is one of the first to go green! Email jwolfe@saem.org for a list of Chairs in your state.
- Not sure you donated yet? Check the SAEMF Annual Alliance Donor List!
- This is how the 2024 Challenge map looked by the final day...help make this the year AACEM goes GREEN
*The Chairs' Challenge fundraising takes place during the 2025 AACEM/AAAEM Annual Retreat. Since many Chairs choose to participate early, donations and pledges received between January 1 and March 19, 2025 will count towards new funds raised in this year's Challenge! If you have a multi-year pledge with installments to be paid in this year -- thank you -- you are already a Challenge donor for 2025!
Chairs’ Challenge Donor Recognition
- Your name on the 2025 Chairs’ Challenge list at the AACEM/AAAEM Joint Retreat and online
- Your pledge or donation counts towards your state’s goal to have 100% of chairs in your state participate in the challenge
- Invitation to the Coffee & Networking session at SAEM25 – grab a coffee and pastry on us before a full day of education
- Your name on the SAEMF digital donor display at SAEM25 and a special memento
- Daily access to SAEM25’s VIP Lounge - if you make a 3-year commitment* at the $1,000 Mentor Level to become an Advocate Level in the SAEMF Annual Alliance
Invite Your Vice Chair to Join You In Giving through the Vice Chairs’ Challenge
Did you know that SAEM has a Vice Chairs interest group? It’s free to join for all SAEM members. SAEMF’s Vice Chairs’ Challenge will showcase the generous giving that comes from our vice chairs interest group each year and serve as a rallying call to unite vice chairs in support of more funding for future EM researchers and educators.
As a Chair, we hope you will invite your Vice Chairs to:
- Learn more about the Vice Chairs’ Challenge here.
- Sign up for the free SAEM Vice Chairs interest group (see SAEM Membership Guide).