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Financial Aid Resources List

This document is intended to provide prospective and enrolled students with information about resources that assist in finding financial aid, scholarships, grants, and other sources of funding for their program of studies.  While attempts are made to remain accurate it is important for you to contact each source.  However, because deadlines and other requirements may change, it is recommended that students contact the source of assistance directly.


General Links:  The following are websites that may be useful in helping students to determine their financial needs and to locate scholarships.

 Name

Click To Visit

 Click To E-Mail

AAUW Educational Foundation Fellowships & Grants www.aauw.org/3000/fdnfelgra.html helpline@aauw.org
American Indian College Fund Collegefund.org/main.shtm sonia@lakotapixel.com
Americorp Money for College Questions@americorps.org
CASHE (College Aid Sources for Higher Education) www.wiredscholar.com   
CollegeDegree.com www.CollegeDegree.com/ info@collegedegree.com
Cornell University Graduate School Fellowship Notebook Cornell.edu/Student/GRFNCornell.edu/Student/GRFN
Department of Education Student Financial Aid http://www.ed.gov/ customerservice@inet.ed.gov
FastWeb www.fastweb.com   
FinAid http://www.finaid.org/ FAQ@finaid.org
Financial Aid Resource Center

www.theoldschool.org/

Free Scholarship Search www.freegovmoney.net   
International Education Financial Aid http://www.iefa.org/
IRS info on taxability of Grants & Scholarships http://www.irs.gov
Kachina Technologies Scholarships scholarships.fatomei.com
MetroWest Community Health Care Foundation Scholarship www.mchcf.org/scholarships.htm info@mchcf.org

Minority Nurse Magazine Annual Scholarship

http://www.MinorityNurse.com/features/financial/01-09-03c.html

Peterson’s College Quest

petersons.com/finaid/

support@petersons.com
Philanthropy New Diggest http://fdncenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_education.jhtml Please check application deadlines
Scholarships for Hispanics

Hispanicfoundation.org/grants.html

Scholarship Resource Network Express www.srnexpress.com jvierra@srnexpress.com
Talbot's Women Scholarship Program For BSN Candidates

http://www.talbots.com/~/scholar.asp

  

United Negro College Fund

uncf.org/scholarship/index.asp

webmaster@uncf.org

US News

www.usnews.com/usnews/home.htm

 

      


Nursing Scholarships, Awards, Fellowships and Research Grants

American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Foundation

Nurse Practitioner Scholarships & Grants

www.aanpfoundation.org

E-mail:foundation@aanp.org

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Health Resources and Services Administration

www.hhs.gov/

E-mail: Web.Master@hhs.gov

Nurses Educational Funds
M. Elizabeth Carnegie and Estelle Massey Osborne Scholarships - Master’s and Doctoral Degree Nursing Students
(must be of African-American descent)
Contact:  Barbara Butler, Scholarship Coordinator
Phone:  (212) 399-1428

 

Nurses Educational Funds
M. Elizabeth Carnegie and Estelle Massey Osborne Scholarships - Master’s and Doctoral Degree Nursing Students
(must be of African-American descent)
Contact:  Barbara Butler, Scholarship Coordinator
Phone:  (212) 399-1428

American Nurses Foundation and
American Academy of Nursing
Contact: Claire Fagin, Program Director
John A. Hartford Foundation Scholars program
American Academy of Nursing
600 Maryland Avenue, SW Suite 100
Washington, DC  20024-2571
www.nursingworld.org/aan/ E-mail:tgaffney@ana.org

National Hispanic Scholarship Fund
PO Box 728
Novato, CA 94948
www.hsf.net/  E-mail: info@hsf.net

New York Life Foundation Scholarships for Women in Health Professions
www.ccsf.org/Services/ 
E-mail: rbest@ccsf.org

Jacobs Institute-Ortho-McNeil
Pharmaceutical Scholar in Women’s Health Care
www.jiwh.org/ortho.htm  E-mail: mbarbour@acog.org

March of Dimes Nursing Scholarship
www.modimes.org/
E-mail: ProfessionalEducation@modimes.org

Business and Professional Women’s Foundation
www.bpwusa.org/

Nurses Educational Funds, Inc.
E-mail: bbnef@aol.com

American Cancer Society Scholarship in Cancer Nursing
http://scholarships.kachinatech.com/scholar20.html
E-mail: kjohnson@cancer.org

Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
www.ahcpr.gov/
E-mail: info@ahrqu.gov

American Holistic Nurses Association
www.ahna.org/home/home.html
E-mail:ahna-execdir@flaglink.com

American Legion Lung and Respiratory Disease Scholarship
www.umanitoba.ca/~/funding/

Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship Program
www.af.mil/news/Jan2001/n20010125_0108.shtml

Association of Operating Room Nurses Scholarship Program,  E-mail: sstokes@aorn.org

National Association of Hispanic Nurses
Contact:  National Scholarship Award Corporation
1501 16th St., NW
Washington, DC  20036
www.thehispanicnurses.org/  E-mail: info@nahnhq.org

Marion D. and Eva S. Peeples Foundation
Contact: 
Judith Leavitt, Vice President and Trust Officer
Phone:  (317) 321-8189
Fax:       (317) 321-8588

National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates and Practitioners - McNeil Scholarships
www.napnap.org/
  E-mail:  info@napnap.org

National Black Nurses Association Recruitment Program for Anesthesia Program at California State University
E-mail: NBNA@erols.com

National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program
Phone:  (800) 221-9393
www.cfda.gov/public/viewprog

National Society of the Colonial Dames of America
(must be of Indian/Eskimo descent)
Contact:  Mrs. Henry Trotter, Consultant  (803) 527-3140

Bureau of Primary Health Care
http://bphc.hrsa.gov/ E-mail: feedback@hrsa.gov

American Association Critical-Care Nurses (AACN)

www.aacn.org

U.S. Army Recruiting Command
Armed Forces Health Professions
Scholarship Program-Army
E-mail: abbadini@emh2.usarec.army.mil

The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

Dissertation Grants in Women’s Studies and Women’s and Children’s Health
E-mail:  charlotte@woodrow.org

Oncology Nursing Foundation/Oncology Nursing Society Doctoral Scholarships
www.umanitoba.ca/~/rz013b.htm
Phone: (412) 921-8597
Fax:      (412) 921-6565

Japanese Medical Society of America, Inc.
Shunichi Homma, MD, Chair of Scholarship Committee
17 East 89th St.                 Phone: (212) 305-3068

New York, NY 10128        Fax:      (212) 305-9049
www.lib.msu.edu/harris23/grants/japanese.htm

American Nurses Foundation
www.nursingworld.org/anf/ E-mail: anf@ana.org

Johnson & Johns School Nurse Fellowship Program
www.discovernursing.com

American Association of Psychiatric Nurses
www.apna.org/   E-mail: jwhite@apna.org

Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses www.awhonn.org/ E-mail: dorisp@awhonn.org

National Association of Orthopedic Nurses
East Holly Avenue
Box 56
Pitman, NJ 08071-0056
Phone:  (609) 256-2310
www.naon.inurse.com

U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs
Office of Indian Education Programs
1849 C Street NW
MS 3512-MIB

Washington, DC 20240-0000
Phone: (202) 219-1127      Fax:      (202) 219-9583

United States Veteran's Administration
www.va.gov/

National Association of Neonatal Nurses
www.nann.org/

National Foundation for Long Term Health Care
James D. Durante Nurse Scholarship
1201 L Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005-0000
Phone:  (202) 898-9352

Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) Foundation
ENA Foundation Karen O'Neil Endowed Adv. Nursing Practice Scholarship
www.ena.org/
E-mail:  enainfo@ena.org

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program
www.cfda.gov/public/viewprog.asp?progid=1238
Association of Nurses in AIDS Care
www.anacnet.org/
E-mail: anac@anacnet.org
Transcultural Nursing Society
www.tcns.org/ 
E-mail:  barnestcn@juno.com
Pediatric Nursing Endocrinology Society (PENS)www.tens.org 
E-mail:  education@pens.org
National Student Nurses Association
555 W. 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
Phone:  (212) 581-2211
www.nsna.org/ E-Mail: nsna@nsna.org
Oncology Nursing Foundation Scholarship
Development Coordinator
501 Holiday Drive

Pittsburgh, PA 15220
www.free-4u.com/

Allstate Foundation National Student Nurses Association

555 W. 57th Street, Room 1325
New York, NY 10019-0000

Alpha Tau Delta National Fraternity for Professional Nurses

www.atdnursing.org/
PRN Grant and Miriam Fay Furlong Scholarship
5207 Mesada Street
Alta Loma, CA 91737-1741

Phone: (909) 980-3536

National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
Caroline Holt Nursing Scholarship
1776 D Street, NW

Washington, DC 20006-5392   www.dar.org

Nurses Educational Fund
555 W. 57th Street
New York, NY 10019-0000
Phone:  (212) 582-8820 ext. 806

March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation

Agnes Higgins Award
1275 Mamaroneck Ave.
White Plains, NY 10605
Phone: (914) 428-7100    Fax: (914) 428-8203

American Cancer Society
Doctoral & Master's Scholarships in Nursing
1599 Clifton Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30329-4251

Phone:  (404) 329-7558

NursingHands.com scholarship campaign
www.nursinghands.com/students

Pfizer Inc.
www.pfizer.com
Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program

Phone:  (415) 502-4770
Website:
www.futurehealth.ucsf.edu/rwj.html

U.S. Pharmaceuticals
Transitional Career Development Award in Women’s Health Research
235 East 42nd St.
New York, NY 10017-5755

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Health Resources and Services Administration
Secretary’s Award for Innovations in Health


(download information from the website of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing )

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigators
Awards in Health Policy Research
Inquiries to the Office of Proposal Management:
Route 1 College Rd. East
P.O. Box 2316
Princeton, NJ 08543-2316
Phone:  (609) 452-8701   E-mail: mail@rwif.org

American Association of Colleges of Nursing
Federal Program Opportunity Alert
Career Development Awards
www.aacn.nche.edu/  E-mail: webmaster@aacn.nche.edu

American Heart Association Student Scholar
Study of Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke

Contact: Jeannie Reed
Email: satemp2@heart.org

Department of Clinical Bioethics
Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center
National Institute of Health
Building 10/Room 1C118
10 Center Dr.
Bethesda, MD 20892-1156
Phone: (301) 496-2429   Fax:  (301) 496-0760

www.nih.gov/   E-mail: bioethics@nih.gov

Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International
International Research Grant
Contact: Ruth Marsch, Grant Administrator

120 Wall St.
New York, NY 10005-4001
Phone:  (212) 479-7529
Fax:   (212) 785-9595
www.jdf.org/  E-mail: info@jdrf.org

American Association of University Women and 

International Federation of University Women AAUW/IFEW International Fellowships
AAUW Educational Foundation
PO Box 4030
Iowa City, IA 52234-4030  www.aauw.org

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Pre and Postdoctoral Nurse Fellowship Programs
Office of Academic Affiliations (143)
Attn: Fortune T. Kennedy, Ed.D., R.N.

810 Vermont Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20420

National Rural Health Association
Migrant Health Care fellowship Program

www.nrharural.org/
Email:  rmckenzie@nrharural.org

Janssen Outcomes Research Fellowships
Fellowships in Outcomes Research
http://us.janssen.com/careerE-mail:  fellow@janus.jnj.com

The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship
Kari Hannibal, Director, U.S. Schweitzer Fellows Programs
330 Brookline Ave

Boston, MA 02215
Phone:  (617) 667-5111  Fax:  (617) 667-7989
www.schweitzerfellowship.org/ 
E-mail:  info@schweitzerfellowship.org

Association for Health Services
Call for Abstracts
Contact:
Arnold Epstein, M.D., Conference Chair
1130 Connecticut Avenue, NW
 Suite 700
Washington, D.C. 20036
Phone:  (202) 223-2477

   

 


  International Students

Rotary International
Rotary Foundation Multi-Year Ambassadorial Scholarship
1560 Sherman Avenue
Evanston, IL 60201
Phone:  (847) 866-4459  www.rotary.org/
International Union against Cancer
International Oncology Nursing Fellowship
Contact: UICC Fellowships Dept.
3 rue du Conseil-General
Geneva
CH-1205
Switzerland
Phone:  41 22 320 18 10

www.uicc.org/ 
Email: bbaker@atge.automail.com

 
NAFSA: Association of International Educators
ASEAN Student Assistance Awards Program (ASAAP)
Contact: Zara Shulman or Mary Tracy
1307 New York Avenue, 8th floor
Washington, DC 20005-4701
Phone:  (202) 737-3699x:226
www.nafsa.org/   
Email: asaap@nafsa.org
Fulbright Foundation
Fulbright Scholarships
Contact: Institute of International Education
809 United Nations Plaza
New York, NY 10017
Phone:  (212) 984-5330
Fax:      (212) 984-5325
www.theasis.gr/fulbright/default.htm
Email: fbright@compulink.gr

     

  NOTE: For an updated and comprehensive listing of scholarships and study abroad programs, visit www.studyabroad.com.


Loan Repayment Programs

·        U.S. Department of Health & Human Services – Nursing Student Loans Division of Student Assistance
5600 Fishers Lane, Room 8-34
Rockville, MD 20857-0000
Phone:  (301) 443-4776
Fax:      (301) 443-0846

http://dhpr.hrsa.gov/gsa

·        U.S. Department of Health & Human Services - U.S. Public Health Service National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program
2070 Chain Bridge Rd., Suite 450
Vienna, VA 22182-2536
Phone:  (800) 221-9393

·        American Association of Colleges of Nursing
Federal Program Opportunity Alert
Loan Repayment Program
One Dupont Circle, NW Suite 530
Washington, D.C. 20036-1120
Phone:  (202) 463-6930

www.aacn.org


 Private Sector Loan Sources

 Company Name

 Telephone Number

 American Express Educational Loan

 (800)987-7770

 AMSA Advantage Education Loan

 (888)282-5957

 Chiroloans 

 (800)252-2041

CitiAssist Loan

 (800)745-5473

MedAchiever

(800)539-5363

MedCap Alternative Loan (MAL)  

(800)633-2270

MedChoice Loan

(800)255-8374

MEDFUNDS

(800)665-1016

Medical Access Loan

(800)282-1550

MEDLOAN Alternative Loan (ALP)

(800)233-7575

Nelli-Mae, Inc

(800)634-9308

Platinum Alternative Loan

(800)252-2041

Signature Educational Loan Program

 (800)695-3317

STILL LOAN$

 (800)626-5266

 

 



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