Bob, outside of mailing out forms to contest directors and making provisions at the Nats, I'm not aware of any specially allocated money that AMA passes out to the various categories of modeling? When control line was on a death watch 20 years ago, I never heard about any AMA funds allocated to give it a boost. Same goes for 1/2A now.
Either this stuff can stand on its' own merits or it's time to wave by-by.

If a real [not make believe] demand for a introductory program ever materializes, the AMA will be able to tool up for it lickety split. They must realize that they can not create a demand, it has to already exist.