Defined Populations

The MFP's objective is to increase the knowledge of issues related to ethnic minority mental health and to improve the quality of mental health treatment delivered to ethnic minority populations. We do this by providing financial support and professional guidance to individuals pursuing doctoral degrees in psychology and neuroscience.

The George Aratani/Daniel K. Inouye Fellowship was established in honor of Senator Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii, a decorated combat veteran of World War II who has served our nation with distinction in the United States House of Representatives and Senate for nearly 40 years.

The fellowship is designed to provide a unique opportunity to an outstanding graduate student who has a commitment to the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, and who plans to pursue a public policy career. The fellow will spend nine months in Washington, D.C., either in the office of a Congressional member, a Congressional committee or a federal agency.
Anheuser-Busch/Frank Horton Fellowship

The Anheuser-Busch/Frank Horton Fellowship was established in honor of former Congressman Frank Horton who played a leading role in the passage of H.R. 5572 in 1992, which permanently designated the month of May as "Asian Pacific American Heritage Month." The fellowship is designed to provide a unique opportunity to an outstanding graduate student who has a commitment to the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, and who plans to pursue a public policy career. The fellow will spend nine months in Washington , D.C. , either in the office of a Congressional member, a Congressional committee or a federal agency.
Sodexho USA Health and Policy Fellowship

The APAICS 2005-2006 Sodexho USA Health Policy Fellowship Program is designed to provide an opportunity to an individual committed to the Asian Pacific Islander American community and health policy, and who plans to pursue a career in health policy. The Fellowship has been generously funded by Sodexho USA. The Fellow will be assigned to a congressional office or congressional committee to work on issues related to health. The Fellow will also be assigned to the Sodexho USA Government Affairs office for a rotation. The program duration is nine months. The Fellow will work full time on a range of assignments including, but not limited to, conducting research and analysis, attending briefings, and following legislation. While at the Sodexho USA office, the Fellow will be working on public policy issues for the corporation.
California Endowment Health Policy Fellowship

The APAICS 2005-2006 California Endowment Health Policy Fellowship Program is designed to provide an opportunity to an individual committed to the Asian Pacific Islander American community and health policy, and who plans to pursue a career in health policy. The Fellowship has been generously funded by the California Endowment. The Fellow will be assigned to a congressional office or congressional committee to work on issues related to health. The program duration is ten months. The Fellow will work full time on a range of assignments including, but not limited to, conducting research and analysis, attending briefings, and following legislation.

The Scholars Program brings talented African American, Latino, American Indian/Alaska Native, and Asian/Pacific Islander college seniors and recent graduates to Washington, D.C., where they are placed in Congressional offices and learn about health policy. Through the nine-week program (May 21- July 28, 2007), Scholars gain knowledge about federal legislative procedure and health policy issues, while further developing their critical thinking and leadership skills. In addition to gaining experience in a Congressional office, Scholars participate in seminars and site visits to augment their knowledge of health care issues, and write and present a health policy research memo.

Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership

Undergrad and Post-Grad

The Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership (CAPAL) awards four scholarships to outstanding undergraduates, graduating seniors and graduate students for public or non-profit sector summer internships in Washington DC. Selection criteria is based on summer financial need and demonstrated leadership and service potential on behalf of the Asian Pacific American community.

Pre-Doc
The fellowships are available through a comprehensive minority recruitment program which was implemented at UAB in 1989. The goal of this program is to increase the numbers of doctoral degree-holding minority individuals in faculty positions at UAB and other colleges and universities throughout the United States.

Post-Grad
The Dorot Fellowship in Israel (DFI) is a full-year Fellowship in Israel that seeks to foster a knowledgeable and impassioned American Jewish leadership for the 21st Century. The Fellowship seeks to provide Fellows with opportunities for development in the following areas: Understanding of issues vital to the Jewish community in Israel, North America and throughout the world; Sophisticated understanding of Israeli society; Personal growth; Jewish studies; Hebrew competence; Relations with Israelis and with future American Jewish leaders.

Post-Grad and Pre-Doc
The East-West Center Graduate Degree Fellowship provides Master's and Doctoral funding for graduate students from Asia, the Pacific, and the U.S. to participate in educational and research programs at the East-West Center while pursuing graduate study at the University of Hawai‘i. Through East-West Center affiliation, awardees become part of a growing network of students and alumni forging the shape and substance of the world's most vibrant region.

Education Fellowship
The Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life
Post grad
The ISJL's pilot education program includes the four states of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi, as well as five communities in Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, and Texas. The project seeks to infuse Jewish life into these communities by providing educational services and expertise for both children and adults, including the development and implementation of a standard curriculum of Jewish learning. The ISJL holds an annual conference designed to train these volunteer religious school educators and to implement the regional curriculum.

El Pomar Fellowship
Colorado Springs, CO
Post Grad
Deadline: check website for details
The El Pomar Fellowship brings together highly qualified college graduates with diverse backgrounds and interests. They spend two years developing their leadership skills in a dynamic, active, hands-on program designed to provide them with a 360-degree view of the nonprofit world. Students must have a Colorado connection.

Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program
Ford Foundation
Deadline: Varies Check website for details
The International Fellowships Program (IFP) is a Ford Foundation-supported program of the New York City-based International Fellowships Fund. IFP provides fellowships for post-baccalaureate study to individuals from groups or communities that lack systematic access to higher education. IFP is financed by the largest single grant in the history of the Ford Foundation -- $280 million. Through IFP, the Ford Foundation will support up to three years of formal post-baccalaureate study for Fellows from at least 20 countries and territories in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America, as well as from Russia, over ten years between 2001-2010. The program will assist approximately 3,500 Fellows during this period.

An15,500 stipend plus full tuition is available to entering students with less than 30 units of graduate work completed in the behavioral and social sciences, humanities, engineering, and the natural sciences. An 18,00 stipend plus full tuition is available for Ph.D candidates who have completed all degree requirements except their dissertation. Applications are available from National Research Council at (202) 334-2872 or the Graduate School.

For minorities, women and persons with disabilities offers up to $30,000 in loans fro full-time students pursuing Doctoral degrees at various universities who are interested in a faculty career at a CSU campus. After competition of the doctoral program, 20% of the loan is forgiven for each year of the full-time faculty service at a CSU campus. For information call (310) 985-2692

The Predoctoral Fellowship is awarded annually to a graduate student of any university who studies aspects of the African and African-American experience. This fellowship, which carries an annual stipend of $18,000, does not come with any teaching obligation, but will require the Fellow to work with the Institute’s Director in organizing colloquium, lectures, and other events. The principal aim of this award is to expedite the completion of the Fellow’s dissertation.

Selected Professions Fellowships are awarded to women who intend to pursue a full-time course of study at accredited institutions during the fellowship year in one of the designated degree programs where women's participation traditionally has been low (see list below). Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.

Post Grad
The Hearst Minority Fellowship is designed to engage more minorities in the study of philanthropy through one of the graduate degrees offered by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. Administered by the Center, the Hearst Fellowship is funded by a grant from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation.

Indicorps Fellowship
India
Deadline: March
The Indicorps fellowship is a structured, competitive public service program for people of Indian origin who have a university degree or five-years equivalent work experience. Indicorps fellowships are designed to be one-of-a-kind transformational experiences, emphasizing both personal growth and international development. Fellows are given individual responsibility to execute and complete projects that are created/defined in partnership with local developmental experts. Interested individuals apply specifically to projects of their interest. The limits of their contribution are defined only by the fellows' creativity, passion, and motivation.

The Mariam K. Chamberlain Fellowship in Women & Public Policy
Washington D. C.
Deadline: February
Post grad
The Mariam K. Chamberlain Fellow works as a general research assistant on a variety of research projects and reports. Research tasks may include reviewing literature; collecting, checking and analyzing data; gathering information; and preparing reports and report graphics. Attending relevant Congressional briefings, policy seminars and meetings is also an integral part of the fellowship program. Applicants should have at least a bachelor's degree in a social science discipline, statistics, or women's studies. Graduate work is not required. Applicants should have strong quantitative and library research skills and knowledge of women's issues; familiarity with Microsoft Word and Excel is required. Knowledge of STATA, SPSS, SAS, and graphics software a plus.

Minority Fellows Program
American Political Science Association
Post grad
Deadline: October
The APSA Minority Fellows Program, which was established in 1969 as an effort to increase the number of minority scholars in the discipline, has designated more than 300 fellows and contributed to the successful completion of doctoral political science programs for over 70 individuals. This year, the Association has refocused and increased its efforts to assist minority students in completing their doctorates by concentrating not only on the recruitment of minorities, but also on the retention of these groups within the profession.
The Minority Fellows Program designates six stipend minority fellows each year. Additional applicants who do not receive funds from the Association may also be recognized and recommended for admission and financial support to graduate political science programs. Fellows with stipends receive a $4,000 fellowship that is disbursed in two $2,000 payments--one at the end of their first graduate year and one at the end of their second--provided that they remain in good academic standing. Awards are based on students' undergraduate course work, GPA, extracurricular activities, GRE scores, and recommendations from faculty.

Post Grad
In an area with such a wealth of young talent, it is essential to cultivate the next generation of community leaders to reflect the diversity of our region. In our Multicultural Fellowship Program, we select young professionals of color with the promise and passion to become catalysts for change. By working in teams across the Foundation, fellows gain dynamic hands-on leadership experience to prepare them for future positions in the nonprofit, philanthropic, and public sectors.

The San Francisco Foundation's Multicultural Fellowship Program aims to increase diversity in the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors. The Program provides young professionals of color with challenging work experiences and leadership opportunities in the areas of grantmaking and community building. The Fellowship includes an intensive curriculum and dynamic hands-on professional experience.

National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund

Each year, the NALEO Educational Fund, in collaboration with Ford Motor Company, offers up to eight Latino university/college students the opportunity to gain hands-on legislative experience while in the office of an elected or appointed official in addition to providing leadership, professional and diversity training opportunities.
The NALEO Ford Motor Company Fellows Program (click here for program application) is open to rising and current seniors, recent graduates and graduate students, who are residents of (but need not attend college) in the following areas: California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Puerto Rico, Texas, and the Northeast. An additional candidate will be selected from a national pool of applicants. Selected participants will take part in the NALEO 23rd Annual Conference in Dallas, Texas, where they will have the opportunity to meet and network with elected and appointed officials from across the country. Following the NALEO Conference, participants will travel to Washington, D.C., to begin a five-week placement in the office of a Member of Congress or federal department.

Post Grad
The Newhouse Graduate Fellowship and Apprenticeship in Newspaper Journalism for Minorities seeks students with outstanding qualifications and the potential to make significant contributions to the field of newspaper journalism. It also seeks to increase the number of minority journalists in the country.
Applicant must be a U.S. citizen and member of an under-represented group: African American, Hispanic/Latino, Native American or Asian, have an undergraduate degree from an accredited college or university in a field other than journalism, have and undergraduate GPA of B or better. The winner gets free tuition for master’s level study in newspaper journalism at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Also, he will receive part-time reporting and editing student internship during graduate school, $1,100 monthly stipend, health insurance coverage, moving expenses, travel expenses, academic expenses and full-time paid professional internship after graduation for one year as a reporter at Newhouse Paper.

The purpose of The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans is to provide opportunities for continuing generations of able and accomplished New Americans to achieve leadership in their chosen fields. The Program is established in recognition of the contributions New Americans have made to American life and in gratitude for the opportunities the United States has afforded the donors and their family.

A New American is an individual who (1) is a resident alien; i.e., holds a Green Card or, (2) has been naturalized as a U.S. citizen or (3) is the child of two parents who are both naturalized citizens.

PHILANTHROPIC FELLOWSHIPS
Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
Deadline: Early February
The Hearst Minority Fellowship allows two minority students each year to come to Indianapolis to study philanthropy through the Master of Arts in Philanthropic Studies degree program.
The Mott Foundation Minority Fellowship is designed to engage more minorities in the study of philanthropy through one of the graduate degree programs. It awards a stipend of $9,600 for a year to cover housing and living expenses.

Public Policy Fellowship Program
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Summer Internship Program
Deadline: Early March
Post grad
Every year, the nine-month Fellowship Program (late August to late May) offers up to 20 talented Latinos from across the country the opportunity to gain hands-on experience at the national level in the public policy area of their choice with the General Public Policy Fellowship. Fellows have the opportunity to work in such areas as international affairs, economic development, education policy, housing, or local government. CHCI also aims to develop leaders in areas of health and corporate America with the Sodexho, Inc. Public Health Fellowship and the Corporate Fellowship (placement must be in a public affairs office of a corporation).

Sibley Fellowship in French Studies
Phi Beta Kappa
Deadline: January
In 1934 Miss Isabelle Stone left to the Phi Beta Kappa Society a bequest to establish a fellowship for women scholars. The conditions of the Fellowship were established by the bequest. Miss Stone was a Durant scholar at Wellesley College. After election to Phi Beta Kappa and graduation in 1905, she went to Cornell University for graduate work, and received a Ph.D. degree in 1908. She was then awarded the Alice Freeman Palmer Fellowship and spent the next year in Europe, principally in Greece, where she continued her study of Greek history and language. She spent the following year teaching in the South, but was obliged to resign her position because of her father's illness.

Research is an important part of both the academic and corporate environments, and minorities play a critical role in scientific advancement. United Negro College Fund funded more than 300 research fellowships at the postdoctoral, pre-doctoral and undergraduate levels to increase the exposure of minorities to research fields and to help researchers identify talented professionals who can lend their expertise to scientific and other research endeavors. UNCF also recognizes the critical importance of research to faculty development, and administers a number of programs designed to help minority professors increase their research experience. UNCF fellows make a real contribution to the collective advancement of humanity through unique discoveries.

WSW Fellowship opportunities are designed to provide concentrated work time for artists to explore new ideas in a dynamic and supportive community of women artists. Fellowships are awarded through a jury process. The cost to Fellowship recipients is $200 per week plus materials. The award includes on-site housing and all-hour access to our studios. The facilities feature complete studios in intaglio, silkscreen, hand papermaking, photography, letterpress, and ceramics. Four- to six-week sessions are available each year from September through June. Artists are given a studio orientation, but should be able to work independently. Technical assistance is available for $35/hour. A thorough WSW studio introduction is provided at no charge.

WSW offers a limited number of special fellowships to potters who make bowls for the annual WSW Chili Bowl Fiesta. At Chili Bowl Fiesta, one of our local fundraising events, community members choose from over 800 handmade bowls and tumblers filled with piping hot chili or drink.

Women's Studio Workshop's Art-In-Education Program, Hands-on-Art (HOA), is a collaboration with the Kingston City School District and has become a national model for arts education. HOA provides a high quality arts experience by bringing students to a professional arts space to spend concentrated time learning printmaking, papermaking, and book arts.