Development Advocacy Grant

Development Advocacy Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: American Academy of Dermatology
Last Updated: August 13, 2025

Summary

The Development Advocacy Grant by AADA supports state dermatology societies new to advocacy, providing essential funding for health policy initiatives and lobbying. This program is tailored for states with limited prior funding, ensuring a simplified application process to encourage participation. Eligible states must align their projects with AADA's policy priorities and submit a final report detailing advocacy progress. This initiative fosters growth in advocacy efforts, empowering societies to influence key legislation effectively.

Overview

The AADA’s State Advocacy Grant Program provides financial assistance to state dermatology societies for the advancement of their health policy initiatives, including state lobbying expenses. The AADA State Advocacy Grant Program will offer state dermatology societies two different types of applications, the Established Advocacy Grant and the Development Advocacy Grant. The Development Advocacy Grant is for states that are newer to advocacy, having received either no previous State Advocacy Grants or a maximum of two previous grants. This application requires fewer documents and is scored using different criteria to encourage less experienced state societies to apply and build an advocacy program.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. States requesting funding must be able to participate in advocacy activities according to their tax status with the IRS and any applicable state regulations.The grant application must be strictly for advocacy purposes — to influence legislation and/or regulatory issues or to develop such initiatives.AADA will not approve any grant applications for proposals that are not aligned with the AADA’s state policy priorities.Applications are limited to one legislative priority to be funded through this grant. Applications cannot contain a list of potential legislative issues that would be funded by the AADA grant. The state society may work on more issues without AADA funds.Each grantee will be required to submit a final written report (PDF download) to the AADA outlining the status of its advocacy project and progress made to date. AADA staff will provide reminders to grantees of the reporting deadlines. Failure to submit a report could result in denial of future funding requests.