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The Call for Applications for the 2025 awards cycle is open through February 3, 2025

See “ACHF Funding Opportunities” below for details.

 

Funding & Writing Prize Recipients

 

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Funding Guidelines

Funding decisions for specific projects or annual meeting sponsorships will be made by the American College Health Foundation Board of Directors, in collaboration with the executive director of the ¶À¼ÒºÚÁÏ.

For information on all ACHF funding opportunities, download the Funding Guidelines below. If applying for a specific ACHF Funding Opportunity, click on the listing below.

General Funding Application Guidelines [pdf]

General Funding Application Guidelines [Rich Text]

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ACHF Funding Opportunities

 

The Call for Applications for the 2025 awards cycle is open!

Deadline to submit an application: February 3, 2025

Questions? Email us.

 

ACHF College Well-Being Funding Opportunity
The purpose of the ACHF College Well-Being Award Funding Opportunity is to offer up to two $3,500 awards to one or more institutions of higher education to create or improve underlying campus infrastructure (e.g., networks, resources, tools, structures, coalition-building) in a manner that raises the well-being of students as evidenced through creative programming and outcomes research initiatives. Click for more information.

 

ACHF Student Travel Funding Opportunity
The purpose of this funding opportunity is to provide partial funding support for travel and hotel expenses for one or more students to travel to the ¶À¼ÒºÚÁÏ Annual Meeting. Click for more information.

 

Kathy Mac Nurse Scholar Travel Funding Opportunity
ACHF, through the Kathy Mac Scholar Fund, will offer funding to partially offset meeting registration, hotel, and travel expenses for one nurse or nurse practitioner, who has never been to an ¶À¼ÒºÚÁÏ meeting, to attend the ¶À¼ÒºÚÁÏ Annual Meeting. Click for more information.

 

Stephan D. Weiss Student Mental Health Award
This award is sponsored by the Stephan D. Weiss Foundation and the Weiss Fund of the American College Health Foundation. It offers an award of $5,000 along with a commitment from the institution of an additional $5000 of actual funds or in-kind support of the award to the grantee to promote and improve the quality of mental health support for college students. The Weiss Award is intended to encourage student(s) to develop creative initiatives that will enhance mental health service delivery to students through an innovative program which could be replicated at another college or university. This award will support program development that has the potential to demonstrate measurable success in student retention for those whose mental health problems might otherwise compromise the quality of their college experience and jeopardize the likelihood of their graduation. Click for more information.

 

TKoster’s Charitable Innovative Health Care Award
The TKoster’s Charitable Innovative Health Care Award was established by Teresa Koster to support efforts to provide quality health care for students. The purpose of the fund is to provide financial support to student health centers and their staff for the development of innovative practices that improve access to quality health care for students. Click for more information.

 

Weiss Writing Prize
The Weiss Writing Prize will be awarded to the lead author of a pivotal publication in college mental health. The winning article should demonstrate a successful student retention program for those with mental health issues. The program will provide creative, innovative solutions that could be implemented on other campuses. Preference will be given to articles published in the Journal of American College Health (JACH). Click for more information.