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Grant Opportunity for Specialty Associations

Don't let your nursing association get left behind!

Call For Proposals

The Nurse Competence in Aging (NCA) initiative is now accepting proposals for the American Nurses Association - Specialty Nursing Association Partners in Geriatrics (ANA-SNAPG) grantees.

1 1/2 - Year Implementation Grants
1 1/2 Year Implementation Grant assist specialty nursing associations with moving forward from their current level of geriatric activity to enhance the education of nurse members in caring for older adults. Specialty nursing association applicants are eligible to receive up to $15,000 to move forward with a substantial plan for enhancing geriatrics within their association over a 1 1/2 - year period. Second-half of funding is based on first-year reporting and evaluation.

Are you a member of one of these associations?

Encourage Your Association to get involved!

Associations Eligible to Apply for Funding
(All below association Executive Directors and
Presidents have received an application)

American Assembly for Men in Nursing
American Association for Continuity of Care
American Association of Diabetes Educators
American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants
American Association of Nurse Anesthetists
American Association of Nurse Assessment Coordinators
American Association of Nurse Attorneys
American Association of Occupational Health Nurses
American College of Nurse Practitioners
American Medical Informatics Association Nursing Informatics Working Group
American Nurses Informatics Association
American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
American Society of Plastic Surgical Nurses
Asian American/Pacific Islander Nurses Association
Association of Community Health Nursing Educators
 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology
Association of Rehabilitation Nurses
Developmental Disabilities Nurses Association
National Alaska Native American Indian Nurses Association
National Association of Orthopaedic Nurses
National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health
Nurse Healers-Professional Associates International
Nurses Organization of Veterans Affairs
Phillippine Nurses Association of America
Respiratory Nursing Society
Society of Gastroenterology Nurses and Associates
Society of Pediatric Nurses
Society of Trauma Nurses

*Applications must be submitted by the Executive Director or President of the national association

For questions regarding the call for proposals, or for an additional application, please contact Jessica Esterson, NCA Project Director, the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing, at jessica.esterson@nyu.edu.

Nurse Competence in Aging is a 5-year initiative funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies (USA) Inc., awarded to the American Nurses Association through the American Nurses Foundation, and represents a strategic alliance between the American Nurses Association, the American Nurses Credentialing Center and the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing, New York University, College of Nursing.