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47 ment of the permanent Headquarters and the grants received from the FAS and the Ford Foundation. This membership growth is graphically shown in Appendix 14. In addition to the steady growth in the number of its Active, Asso¬ ciate and Affiliate members, the NAEB has added new categories of member¬ ship in recent years. Until January 1, 1957 the Affiliate category included a relatively small number of individuals who wanted to belong to the NAEB and support its activities but who were not affiliated with any institutional NAEB member. As of that date, however, the NAEB absorbed into the organi¬ zational structure the Association for Education by Radio-Television which was made up of individuals, largely teachers of broadcasting courses and those using these media in the classroom. At that time the NAEB established an Individual membership category, and we feel it is in this area that our greatest potential expansion lies. As pointed out earlier in this report, we believe that a strong, edu¬ cationally-centered professional organization for those engaged in educa¬ tional broadcasting (both those producing programs and those using them in the classroom) is imperative if educational broadcasting is to attain the educational stature it must have if it is to prosper. Therefore, every effort is being made to encourage educational station and production center staff members to join the NAEB as Individual members, and a special sub-commit- tee of the Professional Advancement committee is making a study preparatory to setting up professional standards which prospective members will be re¬ quired to meet in the future. Although there are only some 300 Individual