Asian American Psychological Association

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

AAPA APF Okura Mental Health Leadership Foundation Fellowship

American Psychological Foundation (APF) Mission and Funding
The APF provides financial support for innovative research and programs that enhance the power of psychology to elevate the human condition and advance human potential both now and in generations to come. The Foundation executes this mission through a broad range of scholarships and grants, and encourages applications from individuals who represent diversity in race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, and sexual orientation.

Description
The AAPA-APF Okura Mental Health Leadership Foundation Fellowship provides grants to support psychology’s efforts to benefit the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community through research, training, and service/practice. The $20,000 grant will rotate each year among these three areas. The first grant will go to a researcher whose work is on issues specific to the AAPI community.

Program Goals
The grant is to enable better understanding, better treatment, better services and better training, all essential aspects to a healthy, robust, and high achieving AAPI population.

Funding Specifics
One research grant of up to $20,000 to be awarded in late February.

Support for this program has been provided by the Okura Mental Health Leadership Foundation.

Eligibility Requirements

Applicants must be members of AAPA and psychologists who are no more than ten years post doctoral and demonstrate promising professional achievement in the funded area.
Affiliation with a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization, but excluding:

any group regarded by the IRS as non-conforming to 501(c)(3)

any activity involving political, lobbying, fund-raising, or entertainment expenditure

Demonstrated competence and capacity to execute the proposed work

NOTE: IRB approval from host institution must be obtained before funds will be released.

Evaluation Criteria

Conformance with stated program goals and requirements
Innovative and potential impact qualities
Quality, viability, and promise of proposed work
Competence and capability of project leaders

Proposal Requirements: (not to exceed 7 pages, 1 inch margins, single spaced, no smaller than 11 point font)

Description of proposed project to include goal, relevant background, target population, methods, expected outcome
Timeline for execution
Full budget and justification (institutional indirect costs not permitted)
Current CV for key professionals

To Apply: Submit a proposal, CV, and two letters of support online at http://forms.apa.org/apf/grants/ by November 1, 2009.

Questions about this program should be directed to Kim Rowsome, Program Officer, at krowsome@apa.org.

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