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Organizational Development
In order to represent the postdoctoral community effectively, the NPA has conducted outreach campaigns to attract new members and forge key alliances. In its first five years of operations, the NPA:
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Secured an $800,000 start-up grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and attracted AAAS as an organizational sponsor.
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Held five Annual Meetings with growth in attendance and programmatic offerings each year.
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Attracted more than 150 institutional members representing more than 40,000 postdoctoral scholars.
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Recruited a distinguished Advisory Board that has included: senior officials at NIH, graduate and medical school deans, and leaders of various professional societies and voluntary health organizations.
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Incorporated as a non-profit professional society in the District of Columbia, and approved by the IRS as a tax-exempt charitable organization in 2005.
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