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Contents 1 Associations and societies 2 Private and public institutions 3 Government organizations

Associations and societies

1. APA is the largest association of psychologists worldwide and offers a long list of grants/awards

   for graduate students here, for both professors and students here, from the Foundation (APF) here, for international grants/awards here, for advanced workshops here, from the Science Directorate here and here, for a funding bulletin here, for APA divisions here, for public policy grants and fellowships here, for

2. APS was founded in 1988 to promote, protect, and advance the interests of scientifically oriented psychology in research, application, and teaching. Click here for a list of grants/awards for professors, and click here for a list of awards for students, and click here for a list of awards for underrepresented groups.
3. SPSP is the largest organization of social and personality psychologists in the world, and provides a few awards for teaching, summer school, travel, and theoretical innovation. Click here for a list of SPSP grants/awards.
4. SPSSI is the international Society for the Psychology Study of Social Issues that provides all types of grants/awards for pre-dissertation, dissertation, early career awards, teaching, summer fellowships, conference, and awards for established professionals... all as they relate to research and public policy of social issues. Click here for a list of SPSSI grants/awards.
5. Sigma Xi is a multidisciplinary research society to promote scientific research, honor scientific achievement, and encourage cooperation among researchers in all fields of science and engineering, including psychology. Click here for a list of the grants/awards, and click here for the graduate student Grant-in-Aid program.
6. SESP is the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, which is dedicated to the advancement of social psychology. Click here for the explanation of their two awards.
7. American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an independent policy research center that conducts multidisciplinary studies of complex and emerging problems. The Academy’s elected members are leaders in the academic disciplines, the arts, business and public affairs. Click here for information about the Visting Scholars Program, and click here for the awards given out by AAAS.
8. Psi Chi is the National Honor Society in Psychology founded in 1929 to promote psychological science, particularly at the undergraduate level, and is organized as 1,000+ chapters in colleges and universities in the USC and Canada. Click here for listings of Psi Chi grants/awards for undergraduate and graduate-level research, as well as chapter and advisor awards, that can be searched by type or eligibility.
9. American Association for the Advancement of Science - "Triple A-S" (AAAS) is an international non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science around the world. Founded in 1848, AAAS is the world’s largest federation of some 262 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals. AAAS also publishes the journal Science, which has the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general science journal in the world, with an estimated total readership of one million. For the latest research news, AAAS offers the premier science-news Web site Eurekalert!. Click here for a list of AAAS awards.
10. Psychology Without Borders(PWOB) is an international organization that facilitates intervention, research, education, policy development and community building in areas impacted by terror or disaster, with the overarching goals of alleviating psychological suffering and enhancing knowledge that can benefit future survivors of terror or disaster. PWOB offers awards for research and action-oriented projects here.

Private and public institutions

1. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation was formed in 1969 through the consolidation of the Avalon Foundation and Old Dominion Foundation. The mission of AWM is grantmaking in six core program areas to build, strengthen and sustain institutions and their core capacities. See here for a list of grants for higher education.
2. Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation sponsors scholarly research on problems of violence, aggression, and dominance. The foundation provides both research grants to established scholars (see here) and dissertation fellowships to graduate students (see here), and publishes both an Annual Report and HFG Review to inform the public of the findings of HFG-sponsored research and to discuss how that knowledge relates to problems of society today.
3. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University fosters collaborative works in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences through providing residential fellowships and creating links between its fellows and Harvard schools and departments. Click here for information on the fellowship program.
4. RAND is an independent non-profit research institution that is considered the premier "think tank" for providing objective analysis of social, economic, and national security issues. See the RAND page within PsychWiki for more information on how research is conducted at RAND, the similarities and differences between the work environment at RAND versus academia, and obtaining employment at RAND. Also, click here for the list of internships and fellowships offered at RAND.
5. Russell Sage Foundation is the principal American Foundation devoted exclusively to research in the social sciences. RSF provides funding for individual scholars to pursue their research and writing projects at RSF through the Visiting Scholar Program, provides funding for individual scholars at other institutions to pursue research projects that advance the Foundation's research programs, and provides access to research that the Foundation supports through its own book publishing program. Click here for information on grant funding from RSF.
6. Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict was created in 1998 to advance research, education, practice, and policy-relevant study in ethnic group conflict and political violence, and is an independent center in the University of Pennsylvania's School of Arts and Sciences. Click here for information on the activities of SAC including the Summer Institute and Foreign Graduate Student Exchange Program.
7. William T. Grant Foundation was founded in 1936 to further the understanding of human behavior through research. The focus of WTG is on improving the lives of youth ages 8 to 25 in the United States through investing in primarily high quality empirical studies. Current research priorities can be found here. You can see a list of funding opportunities here, and you can search through recent grants awarded by WTG here.
8. Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has supported more than 21,000 intellectual leaders in the arts and sciences, business, and public service since it was founded in 1945 to promote all levels of education. WW offers a wide range of current programs including fellowships and other higher education initiatives at the undergraduate, masters, doctoral and faculty level, see here.
9. American Council of Learned Societies is a private non-profit federation of sixty-eight national scholarly organizations. The mission of the ACLS is to advance humanistic studies in all fields of learning in the humanities and the social sciences and to maintain and strengthen relations among the national societies devoted to such studies. As the pre-eminent representative of humanities scholarship in America, the ACLS carries out its mission in a variety of programs across many fields of learning. Awarding peer-reviewed fellowships is at the core of ACLS activity, and see here for a complete list of awards.

Government organizations

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