October 2002 • Volume 8 • Number 10

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Changes affect key AAFP stakeholder groups

At its Aug. 13 ­ 18 meeting, the AAFP Board of Directors adopted revenue enhancements and expense reductions that affected key AAFP stakeholder groups -- members, the Board, commissions and committees, programs, and staff. The actions were the final step in the Academy's recent budget priority process (see story "AAFP becomes leaner, more strategically focused organization").

Revenue enhancements include increased active member dues ($20 over three years), increased meeting registration fees and projected revenue increases from the AAFP Web site. Expense reductions include:

• elimination of the Board's Spectrum Subcommittee and Program and Project Review Subcommittee;
• reductions in meetings for several commissions and committees and elimination of the Committee on Communications;
• cuts in expenses related to AMA House of Delegates meetings, including a cut in the number of AAFP alternate delegates to the AMA (subject to approval by the AAFP Congress of Delegates);
• elimination of the Chapter Research Matching Funds and Public Relations Grants;
• continuation of the Tar Wars^® tobacco-free education program only if full external funding is secured by mid-2003;
• continuation of AAFP sponsorship of the Patient Education Conference only as long as the meeting is profitable;
• elimination of the printed Residency Directory unless it is fully funded by outside support;
• reduction in the number of pages in the printed AAFP Catalog; and
• reductions in staff benefits.

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FP Report is published by the AAFP News Department.
Copyright © 2002 by American Academy of Family Physicians.

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