Grants to Support Nursing: a Sampling

California Endowment (Los Angeles): To provide scholarships to minority graduate students

who are studying to become nursing faculty members in California: $935,356 over three years to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (Washington).

Duke Endowment (Charlotte, N.C.): To create a nursing resource center at Trident Technical College to help increase the number of people who complete the nursing program: $275,000 to Roper St. Francis Foundation (Charleston, S.C.).

Faye McBeath Foundation (Milwaukee): To develop a strategic plan for and help start the Wisconsin Center for Nursing, an organization focused on nursing work-force issues: $100,000 to Marquette University (Milwaukee).

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (San Francisco): For efforts to increase nursing-school enrollment and class capacity in the San Francisco Bay Area: $1.6-million over 18 months to the Foundation for California Community Colleges (Sacramento).

Jewish Healthcare Foundation (Pittsburgh): To establish the Center for Career Learning to expose high-school students to health-care occupations, including nursing: $200,000 over two years to Health Careers Futures (Pittsburgh).

John A. Hartford Foundation (New York): To produce a series of 30 geriatric-nursing videos and articles for use by nursing programs at community colleges: $2.6-million over three years to New York University.

Northwest Health Foundation (Portland, Ore.): To help nurses who were educated overseas become licensed for practice in Oregon and southwest Washington State: $375,000 over four years to Clackamas Community College (Oregon City).

Palm Healthcare Foundation (West Palm Beach, Fla.): To create an evening and weekend nursing program: $808,247 over three years to Palm Beach Community College (Lake Worth, Fla.).

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Princeton, N.J.): For a statewide survey to explore the effects of nurse staffing levels and work environments on patients’ health: $356,955 to Rutgers University Foundation (New Brunswick, N.J.).

W.K. Kellogg Foundation (Battle Creek, Mich.): To develop new approaches for helping minority nursing students pass their licensing exams: $258,500 to the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (Washington).