Financial Resources

The College Scholarship Program is available on a competitive basis to community college, four-year college, and graduate students of Hispanic heritage. Award amounts generally range from $1,000 to $5,000.

The NSDAR awards multiple scholarships to students showing dedication to the pursuit of an undergraduate degree in one of the following areas: history, political science, economics, government or nursing. There are also scholarships listed which are awarded to Native American students.

FastWeb is the nation's largest source of local, national, and college-specific scholarships. This search engine is free for students to use.

The Datatel Scholars Foundation Scholarship is open to outstanding students currently attending an eligible Datatel client college or university. Both full- and part-time students (taking at least six credit hours/term) are encouraged to apply. DEADLINE: January 31, 2007 (5:00pm EST).

The NBC Friday Night Lights Scholarship is available to male and female students between 13 and 21 years of age. You must have either accepted admission to a college, university or trade school, be attending a college or plan to attend a college as of August 30, 2006. Entries may be submitted online or through the mail.

This website discusses scholarships and search engines. Please click on "Other Free Scholarship Search Sites" for a list of free search engines.

The mission of the Good Samaritan Foundation is to promote nursing as a career by providing scholarship funds directly to student nurses for their clinical nursing courses. The foundation’s goal is to alleviate the current severe shortage of nurses, not only in Houston and Texas but in the United States.

The Foundation of the NSNA, created in memory of NSNA's first executive director, Frances Tompkins, is a non-profit corporation (501 C-3) organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes. The FNSNA has distributed over 2 million dollars in scholarships for undergraduate nursing education. The Promise of Nursing Regional Scholarship Program, administered by the FNSNA, provides undergraduate and graduate nursing scholarships and school grants

The NSDAR awards multiple scholarships to students showing dedication to the pursuit of an undergraduate degree in one of the following areas: history, political science, economics, government or nursing. There are also scholarships listed which are awarded to Native American students.

Established in 2004, StraightForward Media's $500 Nursing School Scholarships are offered four times per year to help the nurses of tomorrow complete their schooling.

The Southern Illinois Healthcare Scholarship program is a multi-phase program that marries college scholarship money with work opportunities. This program is for anyone majoring in certain healthcare disciplines that has been accepted into an area college or university. You can receive money for such items as tuition, lab fees, books and educational supplies. For each academic year you accept scholarship money under the SIH program, you will be required to sign a contractual work agreement stating you will work for SIH (in Southern Illinois, after graduation, in your field for each year you are on scholarship).

These scholarships have been established to reward and assist RNs, LVNs, and CNAs who are currently employed in long term care and who are interested in pursuing higher educaiton with a career focus in long term care.

One of the scholarships offered by this organization is for nursing or education majors. Applicant must be a AQHA/AQHYA member.

In exchange for at least two years service at a health care facility with a critical shortage of nurses, the Nursing Scholarship Program pays tuition, required fees, other reasonable costs, including required books, clinical supplies, laboratory expenses, etc., monthly stipend ($1,182 for the 2006-2007 academic year).

Eligible Applicants:

U.S. citizens or nationals (permanent residents are not eligible), enrolled or accepted for enrollment as a full-time or part-time student in an accredited school of nursing in a professional registered nurse program (baccalaureate, graduate, associate degree, or diploma), free from any Federal judgment liens, free from existing service commitments, not in default of any Federal debt.

This is a resource for searching for nursing scholarships that is free for students to use.

The Tylenol Brand Scholarship Fund is open to undergraduate and graduate students who will be attending an accredited two-year or four-year college, university or vocational-technical school in the fall of 2006. You must intend to major in a health-related field and demonstrate leadership in community and school activities to be eligible for this award. You must also use the following access key: TYLN

The Tylenol Brand Scholarship Fund is open to undergraduate and graduate students who will be attending an accredited two-year or four-year college, university or vocational-technical school in the fall of 2006. You must intend to major in a health-related field and demonstrate leadership in community and school activities to be eligible for this award. You must also use the following access key: TYLN

The Southern Illinois Healthcare Scholarship program is a multi-phase program that marries college scholarship money with work opportunities. This program is for anyone majoring in certain healthcare disciplines that has been accepted into an area college or university. You can receive money for such items as tuition, lab fees, books and educational supplies. For each academic year you accept scholarship money under the SIH program, you will be required to sign a contractual work agreement stating you will work for SIH (in Southern Illinois, after graduation, in your field for each year you are on scholarship).

The Tylenol Brand Scholarship Fund is open to undergraduate and graduate students who will be attending an accredited two-year or four-year college, university or vocational-technical school in the fall of 2006. You must intend to major in a health-related field and demonstrate leadership in community and school activities to be eligible for this award. You must also use the following access key: TYLN

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