Pharmacy Technician Certification Board

About Pharmacy Technician Certification Board

Pharmacy Technician Certification Board’s grantmaking is built around one recurring aim: advancing pharmacy technicians as part of medication safety. Across its recent awards, the foundation consistently funds pharmacy organizations and boards that work on technician roles, recruitment, training, and public safety. The largest grants in the record are $820,000 awards to groups such as the Michigan Pharmacists Association and the Illinois Council of Health-system Pharmacists, each marked "to advance pharmacy technicians." That same theme also appears in repeated support for the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, the American Pharmacists Association, and the National Community Pharmacists Association (ncpa). The foundation’s approach combines large operating-scale support with smaller project grants. At the higher end, grants of $820,000 and $620,000 appear in multiple years, suggesting sustained backing for technician advancement work rather than one-off experiments. Smaller awards also point to narrower programmatic efforts, including public safety, compounding education, and community health worker expansion. PTCB’s active programs reinforce that pattern: one program invites State Associates to request project funds up to $10,000, while another fully sponsors a leadership institute for pharmacy technicians.

What Pharmacy Technician Certification Board Funds

Medication safety is a clear throughline in the foundation’s grantmaking. In 2024, it gave $10,000 to the Kentucky Pharmacists Association for "promote public safety," and in 2023 it made a matching $10,000 grant to the California Pharmacist Association for the same purpose. Those awards sit alongside larger technician-focused grants, showing that safety work is not separate from workforce development. Training and credentialing are another major thread. The New Jersey Society of Health-system Pharmacists received $10,000 in 2024 for "compounding education & training for pharmacy technicians," while the Minnesota Society of Health System Pharmacists received $8,849 in 2023 to "advance pharmacy technicians." PTCB also funded the National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations with $37,500 in 2025 for the "pharmacy technician advancement and recruitment program," linking advancement to recruitment. Community health worker expansion appears in 2024 grants to the Tennessee Pharmacy Association, Texas Pharmacy Association, and Pennsylvania Pharmacists Association.

How Pharmacy Technician Certification Board Gives