NACDS Foundation Scholarship Program Grant

The NACDS Foundation Scholarship Program aims to enhance community health, innovate pharmacy education, and promote diversity. It offers scholarships for projects improving health outcomes, elevating pharmacy curricula, and supporting under-represented populations. Eligible applicants include fully accredited pharmacy schools. Proposals should detail the project's purpose, timeline, and budget. Ineligible projects include those focused on general operating funds, advertising, or profitability for pharmacies. This initiative fosters significant student engagement and collaboration within healthcare teams.

The NACDS Foundation Scholarship Program supports educational programs that aim to improve community health, innovate pharmacy curricula, and foster diversity in pharmacy education.
Scholarship Awards provided by the NACDS Foundation have two tracks:

• Innovating patient care and pharmacy practice
• Promoting diversity by fostering support and education in under-represented populations
• Awards are designed to support educational programs that:
• Meaningfully improve community health outcomes, health equity and patient care through innovation;
• Elevate and innovate pharmacy school curricula to reflect contemporary clinical practice; and/or
• Foster and support education in under-represented populations
• Examples of previous scholarship award topics include:
• Point-of-care testing and health screenings
• Telehealth, Digital Health
• Health & wellness
• Nutrition and diet-related diseases
• Behavioral health initiatives
• Infectious disease, antimicrobial stewardship, and/or vaccines
• Collaborative patient care in coordination with the broader healthcare team
• Value-based care
• Long-acting injectable administration
• Past scholarship awardees have a strong faculty lead and entail significant student engagement that is education and/or community based.

To be considered for funding, please complete an NACDS Foundation scholarship application detailing the proposed project highlighting the purpose, timeline, and budget.

Eligibility

Schools and colleges of pharmacy fully accredited by the application date are eligible to apply for both innovation and diversity awards;One submission per track.

Ineligibility

We do not provide funding for:General operating funds for the applicantThe rental of space to conduct project activitiesIndirect costsHonorariums for faculty presentationsProjects primarily focused on advertising and awareness campaignsStudent enrollment in certificate programsStudent scholarshipsTravel for facultyMedicationThe writing of research papers at the end of a projectThe Foundation’s mission is to advance public health and improve patient outcomes, therefore, the Foundation is not seeking applications that advance business interests. This means projects focused on profitability or efficiencies for community pharmacists or pharmacies will not be considered. The Foundation will not consider projects that advance the profitability of the industry or advance the profession, nor the advancing of the role of pharmacy.