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The Practice Based Evidence Fund grant supports psychologists and trainees who are primarily affiliated with community mental health settings, private practice settings, or other local outpatient settings. One annual grant is available to support efforts to document, evaluate, or implement practices in those settings, meant to provide initial resources to support novel research. Applicants may submit one of two types of project proposals: (1) Projects to evaluate clinical practice, describing the identified innovation and a proposal for how to evaluate its effectiveness, or (2) Projects to implement evidence-based practices in typical practice settings, seeking to evaluate clinical care and implementation of evidence-based practices. Special priority is given to projects with the potential to impact marginalized or under-resourced communities or populations.

The APF Division 49 Group Psychotherapy Grant supports innovative group psychotherapy research applied to small groups in a naturalistic setting. This grant focuses primarily on groups in a therapeutic context, including effectiveness of different approaches to group therapy. Although this will often involve studies of group psychotherapy, it may also include other groups with health implications such as support groups for smoking cessation or weight loss. In addition to the grant funds, the awardee receives a three-year membership to Division 49. Samples of appropriate topics include efficacy of group therapy for specific disorders, impact of member individual differences on effectiveness of group therapy, relative efficacy of different modes of therapy, and the role of group climate in the effectiveness of group therapy. Preference is given to early career psychologists (10 years or fewer postdoctoral) and to proposals which integrate group psychotherapy into the proposed research.

These grants support not-for-profit activities to enhance the science and practice of counseling psychology. In particular, they aim to support research on the implementation of innovative counseling programs and models. Division 17 funds two to three proposals in the range of $1,000-3,000 each. The program is sponsored by the American Psychological Foundation in partnership with APA Division 17 (Society of Counseling Psychology). Applications are evaluated on conformance with stated program goals, magnitude of incremental contribution in specified activity area, quality of proposed work, applicant's demonstrated competence and capability to execute the proposed work, and criticality of funding for execution of work. The program particularly encourages applications from early career psychologists (no more than 10 years postdoctoral) and from diverse backgrounds with respect to age, race, color, religion, creed, nationality, ability, sexual orientation, gender, and geography.