Scope and purpose:

The APA Board of Educational Affairs (BEA) will award financial support not to exceed $10,000 per year in block grants. Awards to organizations or groups of psychologists planning conferences and workshops intended to enhance the quality of graduate and professional education and training are limited to $2,000 per grant. Topics of focus must pertain to innovations or new developments in graduate and postgraduate education, including internship training.

Proposals for block grants will be reviewed and evaluated according to the following criteria:

Goals and objectives: The clarity and nature of the conference or workshop goals and objectives in relation to the scope and purpose of the block grants.

Leadership: The qualifications of the person(s) identified to plan and lead the conference or workshop, relative to the topic of focus. Included in the qualifications should be evidence of national or regional leadership.

Participants: The qualifications of conference or workshop participants relative to the topic of focus, including their potential for implementing outcomes of the conference or workshop.

Impact: The estimated or potential impact of the conference or workshop in terms of the diffusion of new ideas resulting from its outcomes in the education community appropriate to the proposal’s focus.

Budget: The clarity and completeness of the conference or workshop budget, how realistic it is, and how the block grant funds are to be used to offset expenses incurred (e.g., travel, registration, speaker fees).

Proposal review and decision-making

Each year BEA will appoint a subcommittee from its members to review and evaluate the proposals and make recommendations to the BEA as a whole. BEA will make final decisions about the awarding of block grants and communicate the decisions to those submitting proposals.

Preference will be given in each year to proposals for conferences and workshops that have not been awarded BEA block grants related to graduate and professional education and training in the previous two years.

Deadline:

To apply for a BEA block grant award, formal proposals must be postmarked by
September 1, 2009 .

Send proposals to:

Jan-Sheri Morris, Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, Education Directorate, American Psychological Association, 750 First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002-4242 or as an attachment to email addressed to J Morris