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American Pharmacists Association Foundation Mission:

The mission of the APhA Foundation is to improve people's health through pharmacists' patient care services.

The APhA Foundation will accomplish this through:

• Research
  • Conduct innovative research to transform practice and enhance patient care through valued caregiving by pharmacists.
• Recognition
  • Recognize and reward innovation and leadership in the profession.
• Resources
  • Obtain and provide resources that advance the mission of the APhA Foundation.

Approved by the APhA Foundation Board of Directors
January 28, 2011
Mission statement revised and approved June 26, 2012

About the APhA Foundation:

The American Pharmacists Association Foundation is a not for profit 501(c)(3) organization headquartered in Washington, DC and is affiliated with the American Pharmacists Association (APhA), the oldest and largest national professional society of pharmacists in the United States.  The APhA Foundation looks to create a new medication use system where patients, pharmacists, physicians and other health care professionals collaborate to dramatically improve the cost effectiveness and quality of consumer health outcomes.

The APhA Foundation:

• Conducts demonstration projects such as its’ Project ImPACT, Patient Self-Management Program, and Diabetes Ten City Challenge 
• Offers programs to pharmacists such as the Advanced Practice Institute, the Incentive Grants for Practitioner Innovation in Pharmaceutical Care 
• Convenes issues forums among healthcare stakeholder groups
• Develops Whitepapers on various healthcare topics
• Maintains a Student Scholarship Program to support up to 12 student pharmacists annually providing each with $1000 in aid
• Manages an awards program, to recognize excellence within the profession and in the medication use process

Periodically, the Foundation Board of Directors will issue Request for Proposals (RFPs) for specific research topics but does not generally accept unsolicited requests for funding outside of the established programs such as the Incentive Grants and APhA Foundation Student Scholarship programs.

The Annual Fund Campaign is an on-going activity to raise individual and corporate contributions to continue to support Foundation related projects and programs.

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