Abstract
In 2000, the National Hartford Centers of Gerontological Nursing Excellence (formerly known as the Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity Initiative [BAGNC]), funded generously by the John A. Hartford Foundation, made the first call for preand postdoctoral applicants to a unique program designed specifically to support 2-year preand postdoctoral education for nurses interested in and committed to geriatric nursing (Franklin et al., 2011). The program augmented the initial investment by the John A. Hartford Foundation in five Centers of Geriatric Nursing Excellence funded in 2000, which has grown to nine in partnership with the Coordinating Center at the Gerontological Society of America (GSA). The primary goal was to develop and support nurse faculty who would be in the classroom educating all nurses to be competent to provide care for older adults, in addition to growning nurse scientists and leaders. The BAGNC program awarded 216 preand postdoctoral awards in the first 10 years of the program (Franklin et al., 2011). In 2009, the BAGNC Alumni was formed, now known as Hartford
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