Sleep Champion Award

Issue Date: September 3, 2024
Nomination Due Date: October 28, 2024 by 11:59 pm ET
 Award Selection Notification: By January 31, 2025
Amount of Award:
  • $10,000 award (unrestricted funds)
  • Complimentary registration for a representative to attend the SLEEP 2025 meeting

The AASM Foundation is investing in people, research, and communities to improve the sleep health of all people. Our purpose is embodied by organizations that are at the forefront of providing important sleep services, spearheading sleep initiatives, engaging the sleep community, and/or leading sleep advocacy efforts to create change while promoting healthy sleep.

The Sleep Champion Award was created in 2019 to honor non-profit organizations that are leading such endeavors locally, nationally, or worldwide. The Sleep Champion Award celebrates successful community-based sleep health services and education provided by non-profit organizations.

This AASM Foundation award is supported by AASM Foundation general funds.

About the Sleep Champion Award

The Sleep Champion Award provides the following to the selected organization:

  • $10,000 award (unrestricted funds)
    • Recipient is encouraged to use the funds to attend SLEEP 2025 and other meetings/events for educational and networking purposes.
  • Complimentary registration for a representative to attend the SLEEP 2025 meeting

The following organizations or individuals are eligible to nominate:

  • Non-profit organizations may self-nominate and/or individuals who have experience volunteering with the non-profit organization may nominate.
  • Only US and international non-profit organizations (501(c)3 or international equivalent) are eligible to be nominated.

The following individuals are NOT eligible to nominate an organization for the Sleep Champion Award:

  • Current AASM Foundation Board of Directors members are not eligible to nominate organizations.

Only the following types of organizations are NOT eligible to be nominated for the Sleep Champion Award:

  • Previous recipients of the Sleep Champion Award are not eligible.

A review committee, appointed by the AASM Foundation Executive Committee will evaluate and score all submitted nominations. Factors that will be taken into consideration include:

  1. Alignment of the organization’s programs and/or initiatives with the AASM Foundation’s purpose.
  2. Examples about how the organization’s programs and/or initiatives are leveraging best in class care and/or education to improve sleep health.
  3. Nomination letter(s) build(s) a compelling case for support.

Frequently asked questions for our grant programs can be found here.

We encourage individuals who are planning to send a nomination to contact us early in the nomination process with questions. Eligibility questions may need to be reviewed by a member of the AASM Foundation Executive Committee, so please allow for at least a 1-week response time for eligibility questions. For all other inquiries, please allow a minimum of two business days for a response. Please note that questions received within 48 hours of an application deadline may not be answered before the deadline.

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