Scholarships

Designed to expand the intersection between furniture making and other craft media(i.e.fiber/upholstery,metals,etc.).Goal is to provide the ability to explore new materials and modes of making to incorporate into applicant’s furniture practice and to create new connections with makers from other craft mediums. Includes workshop tuition, room and board, and travel expenses.

Generous fellowship is awarded annually to an emerging maker whose work is contemporary and functional, and artists who live and work in Northeast United States

The Gamma Mu Scholarships Program provides support to gay men who want to further their education at a college, university, or vocational or professional training program. In addition, effective 2016, the Gamma Mu Scholarship Program will award one scholarship annually (“The Folisi & Goodwin Scholarship in Memory of Ray Williams”) to a student from the broader LGBT community.

The Francis M. Peacock Scholarship for Native Bird Habitat provides financial aid to study areas in the United States that provide winter and summer habitat for threatened or endangered native birds.

The Fellowship supports research related to medicinal plants and may be used for travel, field studies, or laboratory research. The fellowship is for one year.

Fellowships support study in ecological restoration, defined as the process of assisting the recovery and management of ecological integrity. Ecological integrity includes a critical range of variability in biodiversity, ecological processes and structures, regional and historical context, and sustainable cultural practices. The fellowship offers support for one year.

Fellowships support graduate research that will promote conservation of rare and endangered flora in the United States for work at a botanical garden by the student, who jointly serves the program of the Center for Plant Conservation (CPC) and his/her curricular studies. The CPC is a network of more than 40 Participating Institutions consisting of botanical gardens and arboreta around the country. The fellowship offers support for one year.

Graduate study at Cambridge University

The Gates Millennium Scholars (GMS) Program, funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was established in 1999 to provide outstanding African American, American Indian/Alaska Native*, Asian Pacific Islander American**, and Hispanic American students with an opportunity to complete an undergraduate college education in any discipline area of interest. Continuing Gates Millennium Scholars may request funding for a graduate degree program in one of the following discipline areas: computer science, education, engineering, library science, mathematics, public health or science.

The purpose of the GAPA Foundation Scholarship is to celebrate and reward outstanding scholar activists who are making a positive impact on the API and LGBTQ communities.