Diversity and Inclusiveness Grant Program

Overview

The American Philosophical Association, in keeping with its mission and goals and the association’s longstanding commitment to addressing philosophy’s serious lack of demographic diversity, will make available up to $20,000 in fiscal year 2025 to fund one or two projects aiming to increase the presence and participation of women, racial and ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, people of low socioeconomic status, and other underrepresented groups at all levels of philosophy. The APA board of officers strongly prefers proposals that convincingly demonstrate their potential to decisively impact diversity and inclusion within philosophy.

As the APA operates primarily in the US and Canada, programs must have a clear application to diversity in a US/Canada context. The board wishes to express its particular interest in supporting programs that explicitly address more than one type of diversity (e.g., gender and race/ethnicity). The board will give preference to projects based at under-resourced institutions.

The board evaluates proposals in terms of the following criteria:

• Overall quality of the proposal, as measured by philosophical quality, methodology, potential impact on diversity and inclusion, and feasibility.  
• Competitive proposals must convincingly demonstrate that the project has the potential to decisively impact diversity and inclusion within philosophy.
• Projects that promise to have an impact on diversity and inclusion beyond the host institution(s) are strongly preferred.
• Programs must have a clear application to diversity in a US/Canada context. 
• Programs with little or no potential to impact diversity and inclusion within a US/Canada context are not normally funded.
• Proposals are closely and rigorously evaluated for the specificity and feasibility of stated goals and timelines.
• Competitive proposals will contain detailed budgets that fully explain and justify all expenditures.
• Competitive proposals will explain in detail what, if any, initial groundwork has already been laid to ensure that the proposed project can be successfully completed, if funded. Such groundwork might include, among other things, securing commitments from relevant persons and/or venues.
• Project includes an appropriate accessibility plan

Only APA members may submit a grant proposal. Must be or become a member of The American Philosophical Association to apply to this opportunity.

Submit proposals via the online grant submission form no later than June 30, 2024.

The APA board anticipates funding one project at $20,000 or two projects at $10,000 each through this program in FY2025. 

The board of officers will review proposals and make funding decisions in November 2024.
Applicants will be notified of funding decisions in December 2024.
Proposed projects should commence no earlier than January 1, 2025.