Denver, CO: Aug 14, 2025— The National Institute for Medical Assistant Advancement (NIMAA) is proud to announce that it has received grant funding from The Colorado Health Foundation (CHF) to support recruitment and training of Latinx students in Colorado for their 8-month accredited medical assistant training program.
This funding will support full tuition, fees, writing assistant software and wireless internet access for eight Latinx students, emergency funds for three additional students per year, translation of all recruitment materials and student resource documentation into Spanish, mentoring and career programming resources and workshops, and marketing resources within Spanish-speaking communities.
NIMAA was founded by two leading Federally Qualified Health Centers, Salud Family Health and Community Health Center, Inc., to make post-secondary education and health careers accessible to students from medically underserved communities. NIMAA graduates are prepared to succeed in high-performing, team-based practices through a combination of flexible online learning and an extensive hands-on externship experience in NIMAA’s partner primary care clinics across the US.
“We are honored to receive additional funds from The Colorado Health Foundation to better reach our Latinx populations,” said NIMAA Executive Director John Butt. “More and more health centers are in need of bilingual, Spanish-speaking MAs to better serve patients within their communities. These grant dollars will help us to continue our mission of providing high-quality, affordable, and accessible medical assistant training while helping continue to close the health career workforce gap in the state of Colorado.”
Applications for NIMAA’s Spring 2026 cohort open September 10. Learn more at nimaa.edu.