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More than 1,440 Scholarships for Advanced Degrees in Nursing Awarded

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Barbara Lynn Jonas, MSW, FAAN (h), FAANP (h), 1933 - 2018

Barbara Lynn Jonas, MSW, FAAN (h), FAANP (h), died on October 23, 2018. A long time activist in the arts, mental health, public policy and a respected psychiatric social worker, Barbara Jonas and her husband Donald Jonas, a leading retail executive,... read more.
In Memoriam

M. Louise Fitzpatrick

M. Louise Fitzpatrick, EdD, RN, FAAN, who passed away peacefully at her home on September 1, 2017. Dr. Fitzpatrick’s association with Nurses Educational Funds, Inc. is longstanding, dating back to 1970 when she was awarded NEF’s Isabel Hampton Robb S... read more.
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Mary Ann McLaughlin

Recipient of the NEF Eleanor C. Lambertsen Memorial Fund Award in 2014- 2015, with Nurses Educational Funds, Inc. Vice President, Cynthia Sculco at the Columbia University Teachers College Annual Research Conference. read more.
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Judith Vessey

Judith Vessey, has been chosen as one of Sigma Theta Tau "International Honor Society of Nursing 2016 Nurse Researcher Award Recipients"! The research awards will be presented in South Africa in August 2016. read more.
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Madeleine Sugimoto

NEF Board Member, was on the Tony Guida's CUNY Network New York Show on March 2, 2016 discussing her experiences as a very young child living in the Japanese Internment Camps, during World War II. The segment can be watched online now. read more.
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Margaret McClure

Margaret McClure continues her active speaking career in addressing the value of the Magnet Recognition Program for staff nurses at all the Montefiore network hospitals in the Bronx (Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein Hospital, and Wakefield... read more.
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Hattie Bessent

Hattie Bessent, EdD, MSN, RN, FAAN and Nurses Educational Funds Board Member, died on October 31, 2015. Dr. Bessent's work focused on leadership development with a particular emphasis on the preparation of minority nurses as researchers and faculty m... read more.
In Memoriam

Dr. Diane McGivern

Dr. Diane McGivern, PhD, RN, FAAN. of Staten Island, NY, died Monday, June 30, 2014, in Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze, after a lengthy battle with spinal cancer. She was 75. Dr. McGivern will be remembered for her compassion and tir... read more.
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Dr. Ursula Springer

Dr. Ursula Springer, PhD, FAAN and NEF Board Member Emeritus, passed away on Sunday, March 30, 2014. Dr. Springer grew up in Berlin, Germany. In college she majored in the “new philology”, a school within philology and ethnohistory that seeks to desc... read more.
In Memoriam

J. Margaret Ada Mutch

J. Margaret Ada Mutch – an endowed scholarship fund was established to honor Miss Mutch by the Columbia University-Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing Alumni Association, Inc. To designate a specific donation for the J. Margaret Ada Mutch Scholoa... read more.
In Memoriam

Mary Elizabeth Carnegie, DPA, RN, FAAN, 1916 - 2008

Mary Elizabeth Carnegie, ground-breaking nurse, educator, author, champion of the cause of African American nurses, and longtime member of AAHN died at the age of 91 at her home in Chevy Chase on February 20, 2008. We remember her fondly as a tireles... read more.
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FEATURED SCHOLAR

Clarissa M. Swope

(2022-2023 Winner)

Clarissa M. Swope is the proud recipient of the Liesel M. Hiemenz Scholarship. She is a third-year doctoral student in the Doctor of Education in Nursing Education program at Teachers College, Columbia Universi... read more.

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NEF’s only purpose is to provide nursing scholarship assistance to make graduate level nursing education possible. NEF is one of the largest, national, private, professionally endorsed source of funds for advanced nursing study with over one hundred years of service to and for professional nursing.

NEF’s Board of Directors is comprised of leaders from nursing, education, technology, and business communities. Members donate their time and talent to the advancement of the nursing profession. NEF operates with exceptionally low overhead. NEF employs only one individual who serves in several capacities. NEF is a non-profit organization with 501(c) status; thus, your contributions are fully tax-deductible.