What is the history of the APPAM office? Why was it once located within the Urban Institute?
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 International Affairs Program). Dante Noto (then at Duke University) became the part-time Sloan Fellowships administrator. Within a few years APPAM found funds to pay Dante to be the part-time manager of APPAMs business affairs. In the early 1990s APPAM had sufficient financial resources to hire a full-time executive director, and the Associations leadership decided to relocate the APPAM office to Washington, DC. Because APPAM did not have the resources to pay rent, the Association appealed to its institutional members in Washington to donate office space on an interim basis. The Urban Institute graciously responded to that appeal. In 1993 Dante Noto was hired as the first executive director and established the APPAM office at 2100 M Street, N
