The Community Pharmacy Foundation (CPF) was founded in 2000 to provide grant funding for projects and studies directly associated with community pharmacy practice and the advancement of patient care services by pharmacists. The CPF strategic plan guides the organization’s grant making to advance community pharmacy by supporting initiatives that align with the areas of strategic focus provided below. Essential criteria the board utilizes in its decision-making process to award a grant are: (1) is it or does it have potential to be financially sustainable; (2) is it transferable to other community pharmacies and non-proprietary; and (3) is it replicable in other community pharmacies.

However, CPF is looking for the next great idea to advance the practice of pharmacy in the community setting, and individuals are encouraged to apply regardless of a project's alignment with the strategic areas listed below. 

CPF and CPESN^® USA have awarded the first cohort of transformation teams for a multi-year community pharmacy practice transformation program, Flip the Pharmacy (FtP). Flip the Pharmacy will award qualified Practice Transformation Teams with funding and resources to act as implementation arms for locally-based community pharmacy practice transformation efforts. To learn more about eligibility and applicant requirements, please visit www.flipthepharmacy.com.

AREAS OF STRATEGIC FOCUS

Patient Care Best Practices

Focus on quality measures and the development of tools and resources to advance quality improvement in community pharmacy practice  Increase consumer awareness of the value of pharmacists’ services  Capture and integrate the voice of the patient into models of care

 

Health Care Delivery Models

Payment and delivery reform Real-time data integration, specifically as it relates to value-based compensation for pharmacist services/care (moving from volume to value)  Expand pharmacists’ role in emerging and/or redesigned care delivery models Attribution of pharmacist service outcomes in team-based care

 

Provider Status

Advance national, state and regional provider status achievement  Community pharmacy transformation leading to ‘coverage for’ and ‘access to’ pharmacists’ services

 

Future Practice

Prepare for value-based payment and provider status recognition

 

CPF does not typically approve grant applications for topics that have already been demonstrated in the literature or in practice. Several CPF grants are pilot or demonstration grants that develop into established patient care services or provide evidence to support submission for larger federal or foundation multi-year implementation grants. That being said, CPF has the ability to fund large scale projects given substantial collaboration with other partners and strongly demonstration of need by the profession.