Funding Opportunities for Minority Students of Color, Students with Disabilities, and Students Seeking Funding to Conduct Diversity Issues Research
The following list is for prospective and current URI psychology graduate students. The funds 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 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 from $500. to $40,000. Please contact the designated site with your questions.
- American Association of University Women Fellowships and Grants Program
(information available at http://www.aauw.org/education/fga/fellowships_grants/index.cfm)
- American Educational Research Association
(information available at http://www.aera.net)
- American Indian Graduate Center
(information available at http://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 http://www.apa.org/students/funding.html)
American Psychological Association
- Division 5 - Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics
(information available at http://www.apa.org/divisions/div5)
- Division 9 - Society for the Psychological Study of
Social Issues (SPSSI)
(information available at http://www.spssi.org)
- Division 12 - Society of Clinical Psychology
(information available at http://www.apa.org/divisions/div12/homepage.html)
- Division 16 - School Psychology
(information available at http://www.indiana.edu/~div16/index.html)
- Division 35 - Society for the Psychology of Women
(information available at http://www.apa.org/divisions/div35/)
- Division 44 - Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Issues
(information available at http://www.apadivision44.org)
- Division 45 - Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues
(information available at http://www.apa.org/divisions/div45/)
- Division 5 - Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics
- American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship Program
(information available at http://www.apa.org/apags)
- American Psychological Foundation awards and grants to fund research about an array of issues
(information available at http://forms.apa.org/apf/grants/)
- American Psychological Foundation awards and grants to fund research about lesbian, gay and bisexual issues
(information available at http://placek.org)
- Association for Psychological Science
(information available at http://www.psychologicalscience.org/apssc/awards/)
- Financial Aid for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Students
(information available at http://www.finaid.org/otheraid/gay.phtml#general)
- Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships
(information available at http://www7.nationalacademies.org/fordfellowships)
- Gates Millennium Scholars
(information available at http://www.gmsp.org/publicweb/aboutus.aspx)
- Hispanic Scholarship Fund
(information available at http://www.hsf.net)
- Jacob J. Javits Fellowships Program
(information available at http://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 http://www.nasponline.org)
- National Institute of Health
(information available at http://nih.gov)
- National Institute of Health Predoctoral Fellowship Awards for
Minority Students
(information available at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-00-069.html)
- National Science Foundation
(information available at http://www.nsf.gov/funding)
- Rhode Island Foundation grants, funds research about gay, lesbian, and bisexual issues
(information available at http://www.rifoundation.org)
- Rhode Island School Psychologists Association Minority Scholarship Award
(information available at http://www.rispa.org)
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
(information available at http://www.rwjf.org)
- Social Science Research Council Fellowships (information available at www.ssrc.org/)
(information available at http://www.ssrc.org/)
- U.S. Department of Education
(information available at http://www.ed.gov/students/college/aid/edpicks.jhtml?src=ln)
- Zeta Phi Beta Sorority General Graduate Fellowship
(information available at http://www.zpbnef1975.org/Scholarship2.htm)
