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NEF Scholarship Application Process
The NEF Scholarship application process closed February 4, 2021.
A two and a half month review process begins in late February and the approval by the NEF Board of Directors will be completed by the first week in May 2021. Only the recipients of NEF Scholarships for 2021-2022 academic year will be notified in mid May, 2021.
All the information about the online NEF Graduate Nursing Scholarship Application process can be found by clicking here.
An Evening to Remember Now On YouTube The NEF 2020-2021 Scholars Honored With A Virtual Celebration

On Tuesday evening, November 10, 2020, Nurses Educational Funds, Inc. presented a virtual Zoom celebration honoring this year’s “23” NEF Scholarship Recipients’ – the NEF Scholars, an inspiring group of nurse leaders.
Those in attendance included the NEF Board of Directors, Directors Emeritus, Deans, Vice Deans, and Directors of the NEF 2020 Scholars’ universities and graduate programs, and the NEF Scholars from across the United States.
To view this remarkable event, please find the link to the Zoom video on our YouTube channel:
https://youtu.be/Lwqgu1WsSjw

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Mission, Vision And Values Of The Nurses Educational Funds, Inc.
Mission
To promote leadership through scholarship support for professional nurses seeking masters and doctoral degrees in nursing education, practice, service and research.
Vision
To be the national leader in providing graduate funds for nurse leaders in education, practice, service and research.
Values
Excellence, Scholarship, Diversity, Stewardship
Support a Graduate Nurse's Education With a Donation To Nurses Educational Funds, Inc
Nurses Educational Funds, Inc, encourages all those who have ever been grateful for the care, commitment, and dedication of a nurse, to donate today to the Nurses Educational Funds, Inc. an organization solely devoted to raising money to support graduate nursing education.
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Nursing Scholarships for Graduate Education
Nurses Educational Funds, Inc. (NEF) is a not-for-profit organization which awards scholarships to registered nurses in graduate nursing programs. The scholarships are awarded based on academic excellence, recognized leadership potential, and visionary professional goals. NEF is administered by a Board of Directors comprised of prominent leaders in nursing, business, and other professions. Nurses comprise the majority of board members. NEF has been in existence for over 100 years! It was in 1912 that the first two Isabel Hampton Robb scholarships were awarded to two nurses, Cecelia Evans and Lisle French. From then on NEF has continued to support nursing professionals motivated to seek graduate degrees. With the support of those who value the critical need for:
- nursing educators
- advanced nurse clinicians
- nurse researchers
NEF, the largest, single, private, professionally endorsed source of funds for advanced study in nursing will continue with this work for the next 100 years!
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NEF's Honoree In 2021 Is Rita Reis Wieczorek, EdD, RN, PNP, FAAN
A Gala Celebration is planned in honor of Rita Reis Wieczorek. Please celebrate the Rita Reis Wieczorek Scholarship Fund with us on Friday, October 1, 2021 from 6 p.m to 8 p.m. at the Griffis Faculty Club, (New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center) 521 East 68th Street, New York, NY 10065
Rita Reis Wieczorek will be Nurses Educational Funds' 2021 Honoree and the Rita Reis Wieczorek Maternal-Infant & Pediatric Nursing Scholarship is the newest named NEF scholarship fund.
The Rita Reis Wieczorek Scholarship Fund for Maternal-Infant and Pediatric Nursing is the very first NEF Scholarship to specifically focus on maternal-infant and pediatric nursing. Over four decades Dr. Wieczorek has devoted her career to providing the best maternal-infant and pediatric care to her patients as well as teaching the highest standards of care to master's and doctoral nursing students, motivating them to excel in their care for the well-being of mothers, infants and children.
Please click on the links below to see video interviews with Dr. Wieczorek and donate to her scholarship for maternal-infant and pediatric nursing.
LINK to video of Rita Reis Wieczorek
LINK to donate to the Rita Reis Wieczorek Scholarship for Maternal-Infant and Pediatric Nursing
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Unprecedented Times
Nursing care and nursing leadership has rarely been so tested as it is now with the COVID-19 Pandemic. The course of all of our lives is being fundamentally altered in these unprecedented times.
We are inspired by the dedicated and dangerous work of all health care professionals on the frontlines. Three of the Board of Directors of Nurses Educational Funds, Inc. are working in leadership capacities in three of the major healthcare institutions in the New York Metropolitan area dealing with the day-to- day challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
The virtual office of NEF is open and this year's NEF Scholars biographies and photos are posted under 2020-2021 Scholars. Please view the experiences and academic goals of these exceptional individuals, the 2020-2021 NEF Scholars.
The core of NEF’s mission is to promote nursing leadership by awarding scholarships to support nurses studying in graduate nursing programs throughout the United States and we intend to honor that mission now as we have for the past 108 years.
NEF’s sole mission is to raise money for scholarships in graduate nursing education, advanced clinical practice, research, and administration.
In this Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, we hope you will consider making a gift of any amount to NEF to support future nurse leaders.
A permanent named scholarship may be created through NEF to recognize or perpetuate the memory of a loved one (living or deceased), a nursing leader, a community leader, a special friend, a family member, or significant other.
Please make the support of nurse leaders your priority for 2020. Nurses can transform lives.
Click on the red DONATE icon above and follow the prompts to make a donation online.
A check may be made out to NEF and mailed to: NEF, 137 Montague Street, Ste. 144, Brooklyn NY 11201
For more information contact Jerelyn Weiss, Executive Director, Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Phone: (917) 524-8051
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NEF Scholars on the frontline caring for patients during
the COVID – 19 PANDEMIC
Sunoz "Sunny" Soroosh, RN, MPH
Nurse-Midwifery Student
Frontier Nursing University
NEF Scholar: 2019-2020
Brennan Parmelee Streck, PhD, (C), RN, CNE
NEF Scholar: 2019-2020
Ben Hickox, DNP, APRN, AGCNS-BC
Clinical Nurse Specialist | Primary Care | Mayo Clinic
Assistant Professor of Nursing | Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
NEF Scholar 2017-2018
Calli Cook, DNP, APRN, FNP-C
Clinical Assistant Professor
Emory University Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
Emory Brain Health Center
Chair Consortium of NeurologyAdvancedPractice Providers, American Academy of Neurology
Co-Chair Neurology Speciality Practice Group, American Association of Nurse Practitioners
NEF Scholar, 2018-2019
Peggy Ann Berry, PhD,RN,COHN-S,CLE,PLNC
Thrive At Life: Working Solutions
NEF Scholar 2011-2012
Lisa Woodley, PhD, MSN, RN, CNE, CHPN
Clinical Assistant Professor
UNC School of Nursing
NEF Scholar: 2018-2019
Colleen E. McGauley
FNP-BC, MSN, RN, BSN
Mass General Hospital for Children
NEF Scholar: 2018-2019
Jasmine Perkins,MSN, RN, CMSRN
Recipient of the Estelle Massey Osborne Scholarship
NEF Scholar: 2019-2020
Loralie Woods, PhD, RN
NEF Scholar: 2019-2020
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