NACDS Foundation

Tomorrow: Join the Community Pharmacy Education Grant Opportunity Webinar!

The NACDS Foundation has launched a new grant opportunity for schools and colleges of pharmacy, and we’re teaming up with @AACPharmacy to share details and answer questions.

Learn how your school or college can secure up to $100,000 in funding for community pharmacy education.

🗓 Thursday, November 5, 2026
🕒 3 p.m. ET

Register here: aacp.org/event/grant-op…

The NACDS Foundation is proud to announce a new grant opportunity for schools and colleges of pharmacy.

We are looking for creative, practical, and replicable programs that inspire students to explore community pharmacy, deepen their learning, and connect it to community health.

Proposals may focus on career exploration, experiential learning, curriculum innovation, practice research education, or faculty and preceptor development. Collaborations across institutions are encouraged.

Awards of up to $100,000 are available for new programs and up to $50,000 for existing and continuing programs.

Round 1 concept proposals are due November 29, 2026.

Join an @AACPharmacy webinar on November 5, 2026, at 3 p.m. ET to review the grant program and get your questions answered.

Register for the webinar, learn more about the grant opportunity, and apply here: nacdsfoundation.org/community-phar…

Calling all student pharmacists!

The NACDS Foundation will be at the @Commpharmacy Residency Showcase on Sunday, October 4, from 12:00-4:30 p.m. at the Kansas City Convention Center.

Stop by our booth to learn about our student programs, meet our team, and discover new ways to get involved as you build your path in pharmacy.

See you in Kansas City! 👋

Pharmacies are ranked as the most accessible healthcare destinations in the U.S., which makes them a natural place to help connect people to healthier food.

The NACDS Foundation's research pilot on Food is Medicine, featured this week in USA Today, is testing that idea. In partnership with the Food is Medicine Institute at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at @TuftsUniversity, pharmacists at participating pharmacy locations screen their patients with diabetes and hypertension, who also experience nutrition insecurity, then write them Nutrition Prescriptions, providing funds for nutritious food. These patients also receive nutrition education.

Through these interventions, the project aims to improve nutrition outcomes, including diet quality, as well as disease-specific measures such as A1c and blood pressure. Thank you to the pharmacy teams, researchers, and patients taking part in this critical project.

Learn more: usatoday.com/story/studiog/…

Alumni Spotlight ⭐️ : Tolu Akinwale

Here's what Tolu Akinwale, the NACDS Foundation's 2013 Executive Fellow, had to say about his experience in the Executive Fellow program:

"The NACDS Foundation Executive Fellowship gave me a seat at the table with industry leaders at a pivotal point in my career, opening doors I didn't know existed. It showed me that pharmacy's real influence happens in the work that shapes patient access and population health, not just at the counter."

The application is open from now until December 31. Share with recent pharmacy graduates today!

nacdsfoundation.org/executive-fell…