Apply for the Integrating Environmental Sustainability into Pharmacy Practice Grant
August 26, 2025
The Integrating Environmental Sustainability into Pharmacy Practice Grant will help support and facilitate a pharmacist or pharmacy technician who has initiated environmental sustainability program or initiative within a healthcare systems organization.
The project must focus on reducing pharmaceutical wastage, reducing the pharmaceutical impact on the environment and/or increasing climate resiliency of the health system and of patients.
Current Criteria for all grants:
- Applicant must be a CSHP Member, Member-in-Training, or Student Supporter for at least 12 months at the time of the grant application.
- If applying on behalf of a group, principal investigator/applicant must be a CSHP member
- Grant applicants or a specific project can only receive this grant once.
- This project is based and will be conducted primarily in an organized healthcare system in Canada.
- This project does not duplicate funding already held for a grant from the CSHP Foundation and has not received a grant from the CSHP Foundation in the past two years.
- Application does not duplicate funding already held for this project or a portion of the project. If an additional funding and decision date for that funding source is to be declared.
- The timeline for the completion of the project shall not exceed 18 months (grant funds provided to successful submission(s) early May 2026 and project start date should be shortly thereafter).
- Candidate selection will include EDI-related considerations
- The successful recipient of the grant competition will be required to share the results of their project at a national CSHP webinar to support knowledge dissemination.
Required Elements of Grant Submission:
- A brief overview of the sustainable environment initiative or program including:
- Background and current impact on the environment
- Rationale and justification for the program, including relevance to the environment and/or patient care.
- Goals and objectives of the program, including anticipated benefits/impact on the environment.
- Measurable outcomes and deliverables, including impact on the environment, ability to sustain program after funding source has exhausted. A detailed timeline for the initiative/program.
- A detailed budget with description of costs.
- Funding can be used to fund personnel (i.e. students, analysts), supplies and equipment.
- Curriculum vitae of the principal applicant.
- A letter of support from the Director of the Hospital Pharmacy that the proposed change(s) will be implemented.
APPLY: To apply for a Apply for the Integrating Environmental Sustainability into Pharmacy Practice Grant, please submit all application documents in PDF format electronically at [email protected].
QUESTIONS: Please direct inquiries to the above-noted e-mail address.
DEADLINE DATE: Submissions must be received January 15, 2026.
Grant decisions will be announced in April 2026.
Grant funded by a generous donation from:
