Grants, scholarships, and awards

The goal of this one-year, one-time only undergraduate student scholarship is to promote lifelong learning by securing charitable contributions, gifts and endowed funds to award scholarship, fellowships and grants.

This award recognizes an APA member who has had a scientific, professional, educational, mentoring, leadership, or political impact on the lives of and promote the inclusion of people with disabilities in society.

This award recognizes outstanding psychology teachers committed to academic and professional excellence, a passion for teaching, and positively impacting student learning.

These awards recognize MFP alumni who have made exceptional contributions to racial and ethnic psychology in the areas of research, public service, teaching and training, or innovations in treatment.

The goals of this grant are to support early career psychologists’ professional development and ability to make meaningful personal and interprofessional connections by reducing barriers of attending the APA convention.

Recognize outstanding delivery of psychological services to women.

Recognize psychologists and friends of psychology who have made significant contributions to the mission of the Committee on Aging.

The APA Committee on Rural Health (CRH) Excellence in Rural Psychology Award elevates the importance of psychologists in rural and remote regions and recognizes those who demonstrate exemplary leadership.

Recognizes individuals contributing to psychological science as employees of government bodies.

Honor an individual for sustained and enduring contributions to international cooperation and the advancement of knowledge in psychology.

$5,000 to support regional teaching networks that facilitate networking and professional development opportunities for high school psychology teachers

This award shall be given to an individual who is well-published in refereed journals, and who actively facilitates organizational consulting psychologist practitioners’ publishing, thereby contributing their learnings from professional practice to the evidence base in psychology.

The Committee on Associate and Baccalaureate Education (CABE) the Teaching Resources Award encourages sharing of instructional and assessment techniques that undergraduate faculty have developed and used in face-to-face, hybrid, or online psychology classes.

Undergraduate students are invited to demonstrate how their psychology education has prepared them for the workforce by creating a professional cover letter for a real job opportunity

This grant provides funding for the development of initiatives to recruit and retain psychology doctoral students from diverse backgrounds.

This award recognizes consulting psychologists for outstanding consultation to organizations to enhance their diversity and inclusion agendas.

This award is given to an individual with an unusually distinguished career in the practice of consulting psychology.

This award is given to an active psychologist who practices consulting psychology 75 percent of the time or more who is tangibly and consistently investing in the development of students, early career practitioners, and/or other psychologists who are making the transition into the field of consulting psychology.

This Division 2 award recognizes excellence in teaching at the high school level.

Up to $90,000 to support a congressional fellow with an interest in policies impacting LGBTQIA+ populations

APA's Congressional and Science Fellowships include the Goldman fellowship, which provides developmental and clinical psychologists with an interest in policies that affect the psychological development of children with an invaluable public policy learning experience.

APA's Congressional and Science Fellowships provide psychologists with invaluable public policy learning experience, contributing to the more effective use of psychological knowledge in government and broadening awareness of the value of psychology-government interaction.

This award recognizes teaching excellence for early career practitioners.

Grant can be used to defray the costs of attending psychology teaching conferences or conferences with a significant teaching of psychology component.

Grants will be awarded for travel either from the U.S./Canada to a psychology teaching conference in a country outside of the U.S./Canada, or from a country outside of the U.S./Canada to the U.S./Canada.