Grants

APF Grant and Scholarship Programs: Frequently Asked Questions

APF is seeking to seed innovation through supporting projects and programs that use psychology to solve social problems.  APF grants align with our mission of enhancing psychology to elevate the human condition and advance human potential.  We offer grants for Early Career Funding and Seed Grants for Research and for Targeted Programs. 

Below is a list of programs available.

Early Career Funding and Seed Grants for Research

Theodore Blau Early Career Award: $5,000 to honor a clinical psychologist for professional accomplishments in clinical psychology.

Culbertson Travel Grant: $1,500 to support women from developing countries who are in the early stages of their careers by providing travel funds to attend conferences in psychology.

Henry David Research Grant: $1,500 for work in the behavioral aspects of human reproductive behavior or an area related to population concerns.

Division 29 Early Career Award: $5,000 to recognize promising contributions to psychotherapy.

Robert L. Fantz Award: $2,000 to support careers of promising young investigators in psychology or related disciplines.

F. J. McGuigan Young Investigator Prize: $25,000 to support research that aims to advance, both empirically and theoretically, a materialistic understanding of the human mind.

Visionary and Weiss Grants: $5,000 to $20,000 to seed innovation through supporting research, education, and intervention projects and programs.

Targeted Program Grants

APF/APA/Clark University Workshop: Each summer, APF, Clark University, and the APA Education Directorate collaborate to sponsor a workshop to promote the advancement of teaching pre-collegiate psychology.

Charles L. Brewer Distinguished Teaching of Psychology Award: $2,000 to recognize a significant career of contributions of a psychologist who is an exceptional teacher of psychology.

Dorothy W. Cantor Fund: This fund supports innovative research and programs on understanding the connection between mental and physical health. The Cantor fund is not currently accepting applications.

Mamie P. and Kenneth B. Clark Fund:  This fund supports research projects intended to lead to an increased understanding of personal factors, social arrangements, social institutions and physical factors affecting the well being of disesteemed or disadvantaged persons.  The Clark Fund is not currently accepting applications.

Cummings PSYCHE Prize: $50,000 to recognize a psychologist whose career has expanded the role of the psychologist as a primary care provider working side-by-side with primary care physicians in the setting of organized systems of healthcare delivery.

Division 17 Counseling Psychology Grants: Up to $5,000 available to enhance the science and practice of counseling psychology.

Randy Gerson Memorial Grant (alternate years): $6,000 for work in the systemic understanding of couple and/or family dynamics and/or multi-generational processes.

Joseph B. Gittler Award: $10,000 for the most scholarly contribution to the philosophical foundations of psychological knowledge.

Gold Medal Awards for Life Achievement: Bestowed in recognition of a distinguished career and enduring contribution to psychology.

Alexander Gralnick Investigator Prize: $20,000 to support exceptional research and mentoring accomplishments in the area of serious mental illness.

Lizette Peterson Homer Grant: $5,000 for research on the prevention of injuries in children and adolescents through accidents, violence, abuse, or suicide.

IUPsyS fund:   This fund addresses educational, development, and programmatic activities of the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS).  The IUPsyS fund is not currently accepting applications.

Timothy Jeffrey Award: $3,000 to recognize the outstanding commitment to clinical health psychology by a full-time provider of direct clinical services.

APF Lectures at the APA Convention: APF sponsors lectures at the annual APA Convention.

Theodore Millon Award in Personality Psychology: $1,000 to honor an outstanding psychologist engaged in advancing the science of personality psychology.

Wayne F. Placek Grants: $15,000 to support empirical research from all fields of the behavioral and social sciences on any topic related to lesbian, gay, or bisexual issues.

Pre-College Grants: $20,000 to support the science and application of psychological science among talented high school students.

Violence Prevention and Intervention Grant: $20,000 to encourage the transfer of psychological science with regard to violence, its prevention, and intervention strategies to applications within the community.

Wilhelm Wundt-William James Award: Recognizes a significant record of trans-Atlantic research collaboration.

Visionary and Weiss Grants:  $5,000 to $20,000 to seed innovation through supporting research, education, and intervention projects and programs.