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April 2007 -- The Nursing2007 Foundation, in conjunction with the National Student Nurses Association, awarded two scholarships to nursing students Christopher Burleigh of Roberts Wesleyan College in Rochester, N.Y. (below, left), and Nakita Travis of Beckfield College in Florence, Ky. (below, right).
March 2007 -- The Nursing2007 Foundation awarded two scholarships to minority nursing students at the Susie Toledo (below, left) and Lisa P. Wilson (below, right), both of the Navajo Nation and attending the University of New Mexico in Gallup.
May 2006 -- The Nursing2006 Foundation distributed a grant for $9,000 to William Carey College, Hattiesburg, Miss., to provide stethoscopes, computers, and books to their nursing students who were victims of Hurricane Katrina. See full story here. The Foundation also donated over $2,500 to Delgado Community College's Charity School of Nursing for stethoscopes. Contributions came from The Patricia Kind Family Foundation, The Graduate Nursing Student Organization at William Paterson University of New Jersey, Nursing students and faculty at Napa Valley College in California (from the RN clubs graduating in Spring 2006 and 2007), Nursing students from Madonna University College of Nursing and Health of Livonia Michigan, Colleen Smith from Shelter Island NY, and other anonymous donors.
May 2006 --The Nursing2006 Foundation in conjunction with the Foundation of the National Student Nurses' Association, Inc., awarded a scholarship to Ecdo Otu from the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Tex. Ecdo (shown below with Nursing2006 Foundation President and CEO Cheryl Mee) is from Nigeria and has been in the United States for 5 years.
Formed in January 2005, the Nursing2007 Foundation offers new and exciting opportunities for nurses. Our mission is to support and promote the nursing profession.
The foundation will:
The foundation will place particular emphasis on nursing students from minority cultures because the number of nurses from minorities is disproportionately low when compared with the number of minorities in the general population, as documented in the Sullivan Commission report. The benefits of developing minority nurses are clear. For example, a more diverse nursing work force can give all nurses the opportunity to better understand patients from varied cultures. Most important, a diverse nursing workforce can help overcome the disparities that minorities currently experience gaining access to health care. The Nursing2007 Foundation is currently focusing on two audiences--Native American nursing students and male nursing students. (For more information about these groups, click here.) This support is particularly vital because Congress has appropriated less federal grant money this year. Last year, Congress appropriated $33.6 million to 34 Centers of Excellence grans to fund training, recruitment, and retention of medical students and faculty from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups; this year, only $11.8 million has been appropriated.
The Nursing2007 Foundation programs and project supporters will be publicized in an effort to promote nurses’ accomplishments. Media outreach will emphasize nurses' and nursing students' clinical expertise and knowledge.
For more information about the foundation, contact President and Chief Executive Officer Anne Woods.
Content posted July 2007
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