Two foundations renew their support of APF
The John and Polly Sparks Foundation and the Holland Foundation have renewed their support of vital APF programs.
The John and Polly Sparks Foundation gave APF $60,000 to continue the John and Polly Sparks Early Career Grant. The John and Polly Sparks Foundation partnered with APF in 2012 to foster early career psychologists' work in early intervention and treatment of serious emotional disturbance in children. APF has been making grants since 2013 and will continue to provide them through 2019 thanks to this new gift.
In addition, the APF Sparks Grants have launched the work of early career psychologists who have gone on to secure federal funding, particularly in the area of screening young low-income children for emotional problems. The partnership between the Sparks Foundation and APF has the potential to provide models for broad-based applications across the country.
The Holland Foundation made a $25,000 gift to the Dr. W. Bruce and Jane Walsh Fund in memory of Dr. John L. Holland. Now in its second year, APF's Bruce and Jane Walsh Grant supports scientific, scholarly or applied research and/or educational activities investigating how personality, culture and environment influence work behavior and health (mental and physical).
With the support of these two foundations APF continues to expand its grant-making capacity, increasing the support available for young psychologists and graduate students working on critical issues.
Arya Ansari receives Annette Urso Rickel Foundation Dissertation Award for Public Policy
APF has given its 2015 $1,000 APF Annette Urso Rickel Foundation Dissertation Award for Public Policy to Arya Ansari of the University of Texas at Austin.
Ansari will use the scholarship to conduct his dissertation research on understanding the factors that support, or serve as barriers to, Latino families' participation in organized early childhood education. His research is focused on understanding how contextual factors influence the early academic and socio-emotional development of children from disadvantaged backgrounds. His aim is to use this research to inform policies and intervention programs.
The Rickel Award supports dissertation research on public policy, which has the potential to improve services for children and families facing psychosocial issues and contributing to the adoption of sound policy affecting children, youth and families. This scholarship was made possible by a generous gift from Dr. Annette Urso Rickel, a distinguished psychologist who has been noted for her significant contributions to public policy, health care reform and education.
For more information about the Annette Urso Rickel Foundation Dissertation Award for Public Policy, please visit APF.
Announcing the winners of the 2015 APF/COGDOP Graduate Student Scholarships
The APF/COGDOP Graduate Student Scholarships assist graduate students of psychology with research costs associated with the master's thesis or doctoral dissertation. The 2015 recipients are:
- $5,000 Harry and Miriam Levinson Scholarship: Konstantinos Papazoglou, the University of Toronto, for "To maintain peace and safety: How compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction impact police performance."
- $5,000 William and Dorothy Bevan Scholarship: Ashley M. Shaw, the University of Miami, for "Negative and positive emotional reactions in hoarding."
- $5,000 Charles and Carol Spielberger Scholarship: Samantha L. Connolly, Temple University, for "Interplay between stress and rumination in predicting depression: An EMA study."
- $3,000 Ruth G. and Joseph D. Matarazzo Scholarship: Lauren L. Long, University of Connecticut, for "What determines the strength of memory representations? Investigations into hippocampal neurophysiology during exposure to novel situations."
- $2,000 Clarence J. Rosencrans Scholarship: Allison H. Kalpakci, University of Houston, for "An ecological momentary assessment study of affective reactivity within an interpersonal context with borderline personality disorders."
- $1,000 Peter and Malina James and Dr. Louis P. James Legacy Scholarship: Elizabeth A. Nick, Vanderbilt University, for "The effect of positive online relations on developmental outcomes: A longitudinal study of adolescents."
- $1,000 William C. Howell Scholarship: Joanna Korman, Brown University, for "Theory of mind in real time: Conflict detection as a trigger for social inference."
- $1,000 Dr. Judy Kuriansky Scholarship: Luis A. Parra, University of California, Davis, for "Minority stress: Neurobiological markers of psychosocial adjustment in ethnic and sexual minority youth."
The following students also received $1,000 scholarships:
- Robert M.G. Reinhart, Vanderbilt University.
- Brandon M. Fritz, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis.
- Charles J. Lynch, Georgetown University.
- Vanessa M. Brown, Virginia Tech University.
- Kevin A. Haworth, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
- Jolene A. Jacquart, the University of Texas at Austin.
- Mark Wade, University of Toronto.
- Pauline Goger, California State University, Long Beach.
For more information about the APF/COGDOP Graduate Student Scholarships, please visit APF.
Tax-free retirement gifts: What you need to know
A new law allows individuals 70½ or older to transfer monies from individual retirement accounts (IRA) to charitable organizations without having to pay tax on the distribution.
To qualify for this law:
- You must be 70½ or older.
- You can transfer up to $100,000 to one or more charities per year.
- You will not need to pay income taxes on the withdrawal that is a gift.
- Your gift can satisfy the required minimum distribution for the year.
- You need to make sure that the gift amount is distributed directly from your IRA to your charity.
This law will help planning for many donors who find they would like to donate their required minimum distributions.
For more information on how to make a charitable gift using your IRA, please contact your IRA administrator, your tax advisor, or APF's Senior Development Officer Rachael Lipsetts at (202) 336-5622.
