Welcome to our discussion of the Population Fellows Programs’ Graduate Applied Project (GAP) Mini-Grants. Since these grants were first offered in 2000, the PFPs has helped more than 100 graduate students gain the applied experience they need to place their graduate educations in context and bolster their applications for early-career positions in the field of international family planning, reproductive health, and population environment. The GAP mini-grant program is an important part of the Population Fellows Programs' strategy to increase diversity in the field of international family planning and reproductive health. We encourage applications from students whose background and/or experience are under-represented in these fields. We encourage applicants to develop internships with organizations that have the potential to reach underserved populations, including community and local faith-based organizations.

The Program works by providing qualified graduate students with a mini-grant of $2,500 so that they can undertake unpaid or partially funded internships in international family planning, including integrated family planning/reproductive health and population-environment.

To apply, students must secure a full-time work opportunity of at least two months’ duration in an eligible country. Internships should be unpaid or require significant additional financial support, and must take place in the summer either between two years of graduate school or within a month of completion of your degree. They must also directly address the reproductive health needs of the community. (See GAP FAQs for further details.) All GAP Mini-Grant applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.


Graduate Applied Project (GAP) Mini-Grants of $2,500 are available to help graduate students undertake internships in international family planning, reproductive health, and population environment.

To be appropriate for a GAP mini-grant, internships must:

  • be full-time for at least two months;
  • take place in an eligible country during the summer either between two years of graduate school or within a month of completion of your degree;
  • specifically address the reproductive health needs of the community;
  • contain a specific family planning component;
  • be a benefit to the host agency;
    and
  • be substantially under development by the application deadline (early March).

Applicants must:

  • be U.S. citizens or permanent residents; and
  • be enrolled in a graduate degree program in preparation for a career in international family planning, reproductive health, and population environment.

 
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