Deadline: 1-Apr-23
The American Psychological Foundation has announced the applications for Visionary Grants of Up to $20,000 to seed innovation through supporting research, education, and intervention projects and programs.
The APF Visionary Grants seek to seed innovation through supporting research, education and intervention projects and programs that use psychology to solve social problems in the following priority areas:
- Applying psychology to at-risk, vulnerable populations (e.g., serious mental illness, returning military, those who are incarcerated or economically disadvantaged);
- Preventing violence;
- Understanding the connection between behavior and health (e.g. wellness, diabetes, obesity);
- Understanding and eliminating stigma and prejudice (e.g., race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, and socioeconomic status).
Priority Areas
- The APF Visionary Grants seek to seed innovation through supporting research, education and intervention projects and programs that use psychology to solve social problems in the following priority areas:
- Applying psychology to at-risk, vulnerable populations (e.g. serious mental illness, returning military, those who are incarcerated or economically disadvantaged)
- Preventing violence
- Understanding the connection between behavior and health (e.g. wellness, diabetes, obesity)
- Understanding and eliminating stigma and prejudice (e.g. race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, and socioeconomic status)
Funding Information
- Visionary grants are up to $20,000 each.
Eligibility Criteria
- Be a graduate student or early career researcher (no more than 10 years postdoctoral);
- Be affiliated with a nonprofit charitable, educational or scientific institution, or governmental entity operating exclusively for charitable and educational purposes;have demonstrated competence and capacity to execute the proposed work.
Evaluation Criteria
- Proposals will be evaluated on:
- Innovative and potential impact qualities (introduction of proven interventions in a similar setting, minor extensions of established theory or work that has little chance of replication or use beyond the proposed setting do not qualify as innovative or impactful);quality, viability, and promise of proposed work; criticality of proposed funding for proposed work (mere contributions to larger funded efforts, or “add-ons” that could/should be carried out under that funding are discouraged);clear and comprehensive methodology.
Ineligible
- APF will not consider the following requests for grants to support:
- Political or lobbying purposesentertainment or fundraising expensesanyone the Internal Revenue Service would regard as a disqualified group or individuallocalized direct serviceconference/workshop expenses
- IRB approval must be received from host institution before funding can be awarded if human participants are involved.
For more information, visit Visionary Grants.