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After the Policy Council decides on a host city for the conference, APPAM invites hotels in that city to submit bids for the meetings. This process normally occurs five years in advance. Often, no more than two or three hotels respond because the
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The APPAM president-elect makes the final determination of how many sessions there will be in each area based on recommendations from the Program Committee. Quality of the sessions always is the first and foremost criterion. That said, on the low
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All APPAM individual members are eligible to vote in the Council election. Since 2004, the election is held on-line for one month beginning in the middle of November. Voting is as easy as clicking a few items on a web page. Generally, leadership
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In 1978 the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation helped to convene a conference of public policy schools that resulted in the formation of APPAM. That same conference resulted in a discussion of how public policy schools could help increase diversity in the
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At the time APPAM was founded in the late 1970s, the plan was for APPAM predominately to be an institutional membership association that brought together the resources of public policy schools and policy research organizations to support a new
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The logo was designed by Janice Mauroschadt Design in Washington, DC, and became official in 1994. According to an announcement drafted by former executive director Dante Noto, the elements of the logo are meant to capture both the nature of the
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In its earliest days APPAM was managed by the Associations president and treasurer (both volunteers). In the early 1980s APPAM received a large grant from the Sloan Foundation to administer the Sloan Fellowships Program (now the Public Policy and
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Unlike many associations that select their host cities on the basis of hotel availability, APPAM traditionally has selected cities based on bids submitted by its institutional members. Every two years, APPAM asks its institutional members to compete
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The members of the Program Committee have to work under very tight deadlines and make difficult decisions about accepting and rejecting proposals for the conference. APPAM believes that minimizing contact between the committee and the authors of
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The historical information available in the APPAM office does not contain any records of APPAM engaging in lobbying. As a recognized 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, APPAM only is permitted to engage in very
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