Scholarships & Grants

The ANPF Scholarship & Grant Program

offered $147,500 during the 2011 Funding Cycle: $81,500 in MSN-NP, NP and Doctoral student scholarship and $66,000 in practicing and student NP project and research grants.

This generous amount of funding was made possible by the 2011 ANPF Scholarship & Grant Sponsors.

2011 Scholarship & Grant Recipients

American Academy of Nurse Practitioners 2011 Doctoral Scholarship, $3000
Hermien Creger, MSN, ARNP, CNN-NP, CCTN of Des Moines, IA – University of Alabama
Jill MacPherson, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, AOCNP of Canyon Lake, TX – University of Alabama

AANP Foundation 2011 Doctoral Student Scholarship, $2000
Amanda Perry, MSN, RN, NP-C, CEN of Crosby, MS – University of Alabama
Deborah Gray, MSN, FNP-C, ANP-BC of Virginia Beach, VA – Old Dominion University
Jenna Thureen, RN, BAN of Omaha, NE – Creighton University
Lutricia Harrison, RN, MSN, FNP-BC of Houston, TX – University of Alabama
Stephanie Brown, MSN, APRN, FNP-C of Houston,TX – University of Alabama
Tawnya Madl, APRN-C of Neodesha, KS – University of Phoenix

AANP Foundation 2011 NP Student Scholarship, $3000
Heather Nixon, MSN, APRN, BC of Carmel, IN – Indiana University School of Nursing

AANP Foundation 2011 NP Student Scholarship, $2000
Althea Swett, RN of Mills, MA – MGH Institute of Health Professions
Anne Dunne, RN of Albuquerque, NM – Indiana University School of Nursing
Erin M. Marinchak, RN, BSN, CCRN of Pottsville, PA – York College of Pennsylvania
Francesca Stracke, RN, BSN, CHPN of Puyallup, WA – Pacific Lutheran University
Helen R. Masters, RN, BSN of Marion, AR – Arkansas State University, Jonesboro
Vanessa Richards of New York, NY – Columbia University

Johnson & Johnson 2011 NP Doctoral Student Scholarship, $3500
Andrew James White, BSN, RN of San Diego, CA – University of San Diego
Annie Rohan of Stony Brook, NY – Columbia University
Helene Poulos Edmo, MSN, NP-C of Pocatello, ID – University of Utah College of Nursing
Jennifer Leigh Johnson, WHNP-BC, MSN, RN of Evergreen, NC – University of Alabama
Linda Shin Milhoan, MN, ANP-BC of Seattle, WA – University of Massachusetts, Boston
Megan Lemley, RN, BSN, MSN, FNP-C of Dallas, TX – Baylor University, Waco
Nancy K. Durham, MSN, APRN, C-FNP, CDE, of Inman, SC – Medical University of South Carolina

Johnson & Johnson 2011 NP Student Scholarship, $3500
Deborah M. Jeffery, RN of High Ridge, MO – University of Missouri
Fang Yu, RN, FNP of Peachtree City, GA – Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing
Jeffrie L. Duberville, RN, BSN of Sulpher, LA – University of South Alabama
Judith Lynn (Penny) Kirkpatrick, ARNP-C, MSN, AOCN of Pensacola, FL – University of South Alabama
Maureen M. Daigler-Kluge, RN, BSN of Rochester, NY – St. John Fisher College
Nanette M. Fitzgerald, RNC, BS, IBCLC of Rapid City, SD – South Dakota State University

Project and Research Grants

AANP Research & Education 2011 NP Research Grant, $4000
Miranda Meunier, GNP-BC, of Billings, MT – Billings Clinic Primary Care

Fellows of AANP 2011 Giving Circle Humanitarian Award, $5000
Joyce Pulcini, PhD, RN, PNP-BC, FAAN, FAANP of Lexington, MA –
Boston College, William F. Connell School of Nursing

General Mills 2011 NP Research Grant, $5000
Kathleen Ahonen, MSN, WHNP of Temperance, MI – Polly Fox Academy, Toledo

Merck 2011 NP Research Grant, $10,000
Anne Teitelman, PhD, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN of Philadelphia, PA – Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Helen O. Dickens Clinic for Women’s Health

Nature Made 2011 NP Nutrition Grant, $6000
Eden Garber, NP-C, MSN, RN of Washington, DC – Unity Healthcare

Novo Nordisk 2011 Changing Diabetes Grant, $10,000
Patricia Underwood, PhD, FNP-BC, RN of Lynnfield, MA – Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Hypertension

sanofi-aventis 2011 NP Research Grant, $4000
Susan J. Appel, PhD, ACNP-BC, FNP-BC, CCRN, FAHA of Hoover, AL – Capstone Rural Health Clinic

Please read this Information BEFORE Preparing Your Application Materials!

• The American Nurse Practitioner Foundation (ANPF) is an independently incorporated 501(c)(3) non‐profit organization.
• The ANPF Scholarship & Grant Program is available to all nurse practitioners.
• Read all scholarship eligibility requirements thoroughly before preparing and submitting your application materials.
• If you do not understand any of the eligibility requirements, contact ANPF for clarification.
• Application instructions change from funding cycle to funding cycle. Follow all scholarship instructions as provided by ANPF for the 2013 Funding Cycle.
• Fill out the on-line application completely and correctly. Omitting information and/or providing inaccurate information will result in your application not being forwarded for review and considered for an award.
• Scholarships require OFFICIAL transcripts from your most current educational program. For your application to be considered complete, transcripts must be received in the ANPF office in Austin, Texas on or before the application deadline date. If your transcripts arrive after the application deadline date, or if they are not in a sealed envelope provided by your university, your application will not be considered complete. It will not be forwarded to review or considered for an award.
• Provide your most up‐to‐date transcripts. Do not provide transcripts that are missing your most recently completed courses. You do not need to submit undergraduate transcripts, unless you have been accepted into an alternative NP student program and this is the most current transcript available.
• Selection of scholarship award recipients is competitive. Treat your scholarship application as if you are applying for a job. You want to make the best impression possible. Scholarship funds are to be used as specified (i.e., if it is stated that scholarship funds are to be used exclusively for tuition and textbooks, then the scholarship funds are not to be used to pay for a new computer, travel, vacations, professional memberships, conference registrations, review courses, etc.)
• Deadline extensions are not granted.
• Submitted application materials cannot be faxed or emailed; they must be submitted on‐line on the ANPF website at www.aanp‐foundation.org.
• Scholarship award checks are made out to the individual scholarship award recipient.
• Scholarship award checks are not made out to the educational institution attended by the award recipient.
• ANPF strives to ensure that each scholarship applicant and application submission is treated fairly and without discrimination. To uphold this important policy, every application submission is treated the same way. All eligibility requirements, application instructions, and deadline dates are strictly adhered to with no exceptions.
• If you have any questions while preparing your application materials, please contact ANPF.