Grants and Programs

Steps to apply

Step One

First, read through all of the grant requirements to see if you qualify. Eligible applicants are nonprofts 501 (c)(3), schools, churches, neighborhood organizations, business associations, or charitable/grassroots organizations with a fiscal agent.

Step Two

Confirm your organization or project is working at the intersection of climate action and racial equity. Review the Minneapolis Climate Action Plan and the City of Minneapolis’s Strategic Racial Equity Action Plan for more details.

Step Three

Apply for a Grant

Requirements

Proposals should ordinarily be for expenditures that will be completed by the end of the academic year following the one in which the grant is authorized. (For grants approved at the Fall 2022 board meeting, therefore, expenditures should ordinarily be spent before the end of the 2023–2024 academic year.) Proposals that plan expenditures later than this must directly explain and justify the timeline for expenditures.
While a proposal may describe a project that needs funding over more than a year, the APA will not commit to support of a grantee beyond the funds authorized in any year. Applicants should, however, inform the APA if the activities for which a proposal seeks funding are part of a multiyear program.
Applications for the support of conferences must demonstrate some general benefit to the profession in addition to advancing philosophical discussion of the conference topic.
Proposals may include requests for travel funds. However, applicants should keep in mind that it is not the policy of the APA to fund travel to its own divisional meetings and thus a careful explanation of the travel for which the funding is sought under an APA grant will be needed.
Grants may not be used to contribute to, or to create, endowments.

Selection Criteria

The board favors project proposals that ask for seed money for new projects and demonstrate the potential to obtain continuing support from other sources.
The board favors projects that serve as a model for other institutions, and for which the grant recipient is willing to provide information about the project for others.
Given the limited annual grant funds (normally a total of $25,000), project proposals are more likely to be successful if they request $5,000 or less.
Project proposals are more likely to be successful if they have secured local support for the project.
Project proposals are more likely to be successful if a groundwork for the project has already been laid, or in the case of community projects, if some relationships with people in the community have already been developed.
The board will not ordinarily fund lectures or lecture‐series at a single university or college.