Established Advocacy Grant

Established Advocacy Grant

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

Summary

The Established Advocacy Grant, offered by the AADA, provides crucial financial support to state dermatology societies that have previously received multiple advocacy grant awards. This program aims to enhance health policy initiatives, focusing on specific legislative priorities. Eligible states must align their applications with AADA’s policy priorities and demonstrate their advocacy efforts through a detailed plan. Compliance with IRS regulations and timely reporting is mandatory for continued funding.

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. States that qualify for the Established State Advocacy Grant have received more than two AADA advocacy grant awards and already have a robust advocacy program, but need extra financial support from the AADA to support their advocacy efforts. Applicants for the Established State Advocacy Grant are encouraged to focus their application on one specific legislative priority, even if the society will be working on multiple priorities throughout the year. This is to demonstrate to the State Policy Committee how exactly the state will be using their grant to further a written plan on that one issue. To clarify, state societies are still encouraged to work on multiple legislative priorities throughout the year, but we are requesting detailed plans for one priority.

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.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.