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Funding Opportunities for Prospective and Current URI Psychology Graduate Students Regarding Diversity.

These are for education, research, and travel and are available from a wide array of sources including local, national, and international professional organizations, private foundations, and government sponsored sites. The following list is offered to help guide your search for the best available funding source for you. It includes awards, fellowships, grants, and scholarships aimed at bachelors, masters and predoctoral level students, and students at the dissertation stage. Current funding amounts vary widely from $500. to $40,000. Please contact the designated site with your questions.

Links Available Online:

External Funding for Minority Students of Color, Students with Disabilities, and Students Seeking Funding to Conduct Diversity Issues Research

• American Association of University Women Fellowships and Grants Program (information available at www.aauw.org/education/fga/fellowships_grants/index.cfm)


• American Educational Research Association (information available at www.aera.net)


• American Indian Graduate Center (information available at www.aigc.com/home.asp)


• American Psychological Association funding sources for students (and early career psychologists) including awards, fellowships, grants, scholarships, travel awards (information available at www.apa.org/students/funding.html)


• American Psychological Association
  
  *Division 5 - Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics
  (information available at www.apa.org/divisions/div5)
  
  *Division 9 - Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)
  (information available at www.spssi.org)
  
  *Division 12 – Society of Clinical Psychology
  (information available at www.apa.org/divisions/div12/homepage.html)
  
  *Division 16 – School Psychology
  (information available at www.indiana.edu/~div16/index.html)
  
  *Division 35 – Society for the Psychology of Women
  (information available at www.apa.org/divisions/div35/)
  
  *Division 44 – Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Issues
  (information available at www.apadivision44.org)
  
  *Division 45 – Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues
  (information available at www.apa.org/divisions/div45/)
  
  
• American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship Program
  (information available at: www.apa.org/apags)


• American Psychological Foundation awards and grants to fund research about lesbian, gay, and bisexual issues
  (for information contact www.placek.org and www.placekawards.org)


• Association for Psychological Science
  (information available at www.psychologicalscience.org/apssc/awards/)


• Financial Aid for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Students
  (information available at www.finaid.org/otheraid/gay.phtml#general)


• Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships
  (information available at (www7.nationalacademies.org/fordfellowships/)


• Gates Millennium Scholars
  (information available at www.gmsp.org/publicweb/aboutus.aspx)


• Hispanic Scholarship Fund
  (information available at www.hsf.net)


• Jacob J. Javits Fellowships Program
  (information available at www.ed.gov/programs/jacobjavits/index.html)


• La Unidad Latina Foundation
  (information available at http://foundation.launidadlatina.org/)


• National Association of School Psychologists Minority Scholarship Award
  (information available at www.nasponline.org)


• National Institute of Health Predoctoral Fellowship Awards for Minority Students
  (information available at grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-00-069.html)


• National Science Foundation
  (information available at www.nsf.gov/funding)


• Rhode Island Foundation grants, funds research about gay, lesbian, and bisexual issues
  (information available at www.rifoundation.org)


• Rhode Island School Psychologists Association Minority Scholarship Award
  (information available at www.rispa.org)


• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  (information available at www.rwjf.org)


• Social Science Research Council Fellowships
  (information available at www.ssrc.org/)


• U.S. Department of Education
  (information available at www.ed.gov/students/college/aid/edpicks.jhtml?src=ln)


• Zeta Phi Beta Sorority General Graduate Fellowship
  (information available at www.zpbnef1975.org/Scholarship2.htm)

Diversity Theme Conferences

• National Multicultural Conference and Summit, held every other year on the West Coast (information available at www.multiculturalsummit.org)

• Cross-Cultural Roundtable, held every year at Teachers College at Columbia University (information available at www.tc.columbia.edu/roundtable/)

• Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture at Boston College, held every year (information available at www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/soe/isprc)

• AWP, held every year (information available at www.awpsych.org)

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