Nurses Educational Funds, Inc. Scholarship for Leadership
Nurses Educational Funds, Inc.
More than 1,460 Scholarships for Advanced Degrees in Nursing Awarded

In Memoriam

Thelma Schorr, BSN, RN, FAAN, 1924 - 2024

The Nursing Community Loses A Living Legend, Thelma Schorr When she left home at the age of 17 to attend nursing school, Thelma Schorr (nee Mermelstein) could not have predicted what lay ahead—forty years at the American Journal of Nursing (AJN) comp... read more.
In Memoriam

Jo Kirsch, EdD, RN, 1939 - 2024

Jo Kirsch, EdD, RN, passed from our lives November 5, 2024. Beloved wife of the late Dr. Bernard Kirsch (deceased in 2010). Devoted mother of, and survived by, Sally and her husband Stephen Fisk, Samuel and his wife Emily. Jo is also survived by five... read more.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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

Erin Whitehouse

(2015-2016 Winner)

Winner of the Isabel Hampton Robb Scholarship, is currently enrolled in the PhD program at The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing in Baltimore, Maryland. She earned her masters of public health from Uni... 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 the largest, single, 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.