Nurse Faculty Loan Program (NFLP) | HRSA 25 070

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The Nurse Faculty Loan Program (NFLP) is a discretionary grant opportunity from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) (Funding Opportunity Number HRSA-25-070; CFDA 93.264) designed to help address the nationwide shortage of nursing faculty. The core idea is to expand the pipeline of qualified educators by supporting a school-run loan fund that offers low-interest loans to students enrolled in advanced nursing education degree programs who intend to become faculty. In return for stepping into faculty roles after graduation, those borrowers can qualify for significant loan cancellation, which makes pursuing a teaching career more financially realistic and helps schools recruit and retain instructors.

Under this program, the applicant organization is not an individual student, but an eligible institution (or other eligible entity) that will establish, operate, and maintain a student loan program for qualified nursing students. Awardees are responsible for administering the loan fund, issuing loans to eligible students in advanced nursing education programs, and monitoring ongoing compliance with all program requirements. A major incentive built into the NFLP is the borrower benefit: graduates may have up to 85 percent of their NFLP loan amount, including interest, canceled if they work full-time as nurse faculty for up to four years at an accredited school of nursing. The program also recognizes evolving teaching and training models by treating Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) who serve full-time as preceptors within academic-practice partnerships as meeting the faculty definition for NFLP purposes, which is intended to broaden clinical training capacity for nursing students.

Eligibility is centered on accreditation and the presence of advanced nursing education programming. Applicants must be accredited schools of nursing that offer advanced nursing education degree programs, and any nursing school affiliated with the application must be accredited at the time of application and remain accredited throughout the award period. The accreditation must be from a recognized accrediting body (or a state agency) approved by the Secretary of Education for nurse education accreditation, and applicants must provide official documentation of accreditation as Attachment 1 for all affiliated nursing programs. Tribes and tribal organizations may also be eligible when they own and operate accredited schools of nursing that include an advanced nursing program.

The opportunity is open to a wide range of domestic organization types, as long as they meet the program-specific eligibility requirements. Eligible applicant categories listed for this notice include public and private institutions of higher education; nonprofits (with or without 501(c)(3) status); for-profit organizations (other than small businesses); and government entities such as state, county, city or township governments, special districts, and independent school districts. Federally recognized Native American tribal governments and Native American tribal organizations are also included. For this program, "domestic" includes the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the freely associated states and territories listed in the notice (Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of the Marshall Islands, and Republic of Palau). Individuals are explicitly not eligible to apply under this notice of funding opportunity.

Key administrative details from the source listing include an original application closing date of 2025-02-24, an expected 80 awards, and an award ceiling listed as 0 (which typically indicates the ceiling is not specified in the listing and applicants should rely on the full NOFO for budget constraints and award structure). Overall, the NFLP functions as a workforce development tool: it channels grant support through schools to finance future faculty, then ties the most valuable benefit (loan cancellation) to sustained, full-time service in nursing education roles, including qualifying preceptor roles that expand hands-on clinical teaching capacity.

• The Health Resources and Services Administration in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Nurse Faculty Loan Program (NFLP)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.264.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-11-26.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-02-24. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 80 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, For-profit organizations other than small businesses, Others.

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