2010 AAFCS Grants Program
AAFCS awards grant funding for a variety of family and consumer sciences research and professional development projects. Grant winners are recognized each year during the AAFCS Annual Conference.
Don't see the grant for which you want to apply? Maybe it will be offered in 2011.
Please note: The schedule is subject to change due to many factors, including market fluctuations.
Questions? Take a look at our frequently asked questions page.
Link to grant winners:
Ruth O'Brien Project Grant
The Ruth O’Brien Project Grant was established in 1972 through a bequest from Ruth O’Brien, former assistant chief of the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and supports research and development in family and consumer sciences. The grant’s objectives are to: assist members of the profession to develop and use their full potential to serve society; provide support for education, study, and scientific research in fields relating to family and consumer sciences; and improve the usefulness and effectiveness of family and consumer sciences in all its aspects. Funding is available for projects that help fulfill these objectives and are in accord with the goals of the Association and the profession.
- Deadline for online submission of Ruth O'Brien Project Grant applications is January 15, 2010.
- The guidelines and application form below should be consulted for details.
Ruth O'Brien
Project Grant Guidelines
Ruth O'Brien
Project Grant Application Form (link to application found in guidelines)
Centennial Scholars Research Grant
This is the inaugural year for the American Association of Family & Consumer
Sciences (AAFCS) Centennial Scholars Research Grant, which was created in honor
of the Association’s 100th anniversary. The fund that supports the Centennial
Scholars Research Grant was launched in 2008, thanks to challenge grants given
by AAFCS Past Presidents Peggy Meszaros and Sharon Nickols.
- Deadline for postmark of application packages for the
Centennial Scholars Research Grant is January 15, 2010.
- The guidelines and application form below should be consulted
for details.
Centennial Scholars Research Grant Guidelines
Centennial
Scholars Research
Grant Application Form
Please note:
- An award is defined as a merit honor based on performance and on contributions to the field of family and consumer sciences.
- A grant is defined as financial support given for research studies in family and consumer sciences.
- A fellowship is financial support from an endowment given to a student for graduate study in family and consumer sciences.
- A scholarship is financial support from an endowment given to a student for undergraduate study in family and consumer sciences.
- If a particular award, grant, fellowship, or scholarship is not listed in the 2010 programs section of the website as being offered in 2010, it is not being offered in 2010 (even if it was offered in the past!)
- An award, grant, fellowship, or scholarship that is not offered in 2010 will be offered again in the future.
- If no qualified candidate is identified for a particular award, grant, fellowship, or scholarship offered in 2010, it will not be awarded in 2010.
- AAFCS reserves the first right of refusal to publish any developed materials resulting from AAFCS awards, grants, fellowships, or scholarships.
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