2024 AUCD Annual Report
Stronger Together
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AUCD Central Office Initiatives
- AUCD 2024 Conference
- Opening Plenary: Using the Strength of our Network to Build a More Inclusive World
- Leading Change Session: Stronger Together: Strategies, Opportunities, and Challenges for Inclusive Research
- Leading Change Session: Creating a More Inclusive World Through Family Leadership and Engagement
- Closing Plenary: Engaging with Policymakers on Pressing Issues Facing the Disability Community
- Opening Plenary: Using the Strength of our Network to Build a More Inclusive World
- AUCD Policy Team educated and lobbied to advocate for the reauthorization of the Autism CARES Act
Network Initiatives
- Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (TN IDDRC, UCEDD, LEND) Researcher Leads Efforts to Design VR Training for Educators of Students with Autism
- Third Round of the ProFellows Program on Inclusive Civic Engagement Launched
- University of Massachusetts Boston Institute for Community Inclusion Partners with the International Disability Alliance and the African Disability Forum on International Fellowship Program
- A National Partnership to Advance Peer-Support Models for People Who Need Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
- Support Work: Realizing Inclusion
- To Survive, and to Laugh
- Expanding Access for Rural, Highly Mobile, and Military-Connected Families
- The Wisconsin Integrated Transition Planning Project Facilitates Access to Resources for Youth with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities to Plan for Adulthood
AUCD Financials
AUCD is a 501(c)3 organization with a $5.6 million budget. The majority of AUCD’s income comes from grants and contracts; and the remainder comes from things like membership dues, event registrations, and private donations. AUCD works to keep our operations efficient, using the maximum available resources to further the goals of our strategic plan.
2024 Revenue
- AUCD passed to its members $2.3 million in funding compared to $5.6 million of funding in the previous year (due to expiring grant awards).
- AUCD FY25 projection is over $0.5 million passed to members.
- Membership dues increased by 5 percent in FY25.
2024 Passed through Funding
- AUCD FY2024 revenue was $8,000,814 compared to $12,082,577 in FY2023.
- Year-end unrestricted net assets were $3,782,396 which is $529,204 less than the prior year.
- AUCD’s reserve fund now exceeds 6 months.
Network Products & Activities
Members of the AUCD Network engage in a wide variety of activities daily as they work to promote inclusion, justice, health, and respect for all people with disabilities. For data collection purposes, their activities are grouped into three main categories: technical assistance (helping people finding resources and answers), continuing education (teaching), and diagnostic services (clinical medical and research activities).
In FY24, over 513,00 people and organizations received technical assistance from AUCD members, over 965,000 people received continuing education, and over 178,000 families received clinical services such as diagnostic evaluations for developmental disabilities, therapies, and more.
One of the strategic goals of AUCD is to conduct and apply research and share knowledge. Collectively, AUCD Network member Centers and Programs produced over 13,900 expert products each year, including newsletters, books and book chapters, conference presentations, academic and online courses, fact sheets, and press communications. These items reach tens of millions of people, educating them on evidence-based information and guiding them to resources available for people with disabilities and their families.
Network Training Impact
AUCD Emerging Leaders are a part of a community that includes current trainees from AUCD Network sites; former (i.e. alumni) trainees; early career professionals from all health and related disciplines, including self-advocates and family members; and others that are relatively new to the disability field. This group of passionate individuals from every U.S. state and territory grows by the thousands each year. Together, this Emerging Leaders Community shares a passion to serve, research, and educate to make positive changes with and for people with disabilities and their families.
Every year, the AUCD Network of Programs graduates more than 4,911 leaders in their respective health, allied health, general studies, and education fields. These trainees have engaged in intensive, curricular and research experiences in order to increase their knowledge and grow their leadership skills, and many more who have engaged with our Programs in shorter term experiences.
“In 2024, the AUCD Network collectively trained 4,911 trainees in more than 47 different disciplines.”