Scholarships
The Mississippi Nurses Foundation provides scholarships, stipends and grants to nursing students and registered nurses throughout the state of Mississippi who are pursuing degrees in nursing.
Mississippi Car Tag Stipend Program
$6000 in stipends are made available to nursing students and nurses pursuing an advance degree in nursing in the state of Mississippi through the Nurses Car Tag Program.
Click here to download the Criteria Stipend for AD BS. - 2013
Click here to download the Criteria Stipend Masters Doctoral. - 2013
Click here to download the Student Information Form. - 2013
The 2012 Car Tag Stipend Recipients
Associate Degree Nursing Progam:
Leah Rigney
East Central Community College
Baccalaureate Nursing Program
Renee Bolden
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Michell Burns
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Heather Logan
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Leigh Moller
Mississippi College
Mallori Watson
Mississippi University for Women
RN to BSN Program
Amanda Walton
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Masters Nursing Program
Grace Cox Applewhite
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Betsy Mann
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Kate Totty
Mississippi University for Women
2012 School Nurse Scholarship Winner
Linda Keel
Mississippi University for Women
Mississippi Nurses Foundation Research Grant
MNF provides up to $2,000 in research grants. The applicant is to be a Registered Nurse licensed in MS and a member of MNA. The applicant may be a graduate nursing student in a master’s or doctoral program in MS or a nurse clinician, educator, or administrator working in a health care facility in MS. Recipients are required to submit to the MNF reports of the study outcomes, expenditures of grant monies, and evaluations of the MNF Nursing Research Grant program. Awardees may be invited to present their projects at an MNA convention in October or at a joint session of the MNA/MNF Boards in December 2013.
University of Mississippi School of Nursing
Betty Dickson Health Policy Award
MNF Betty Dickson Health Policy Scholarship .pdf -Closed
Betty Dickson Award Information Application .pdf -Closed
Arthur Davis Scholarly Writing Scholarship
2012 Call for Entries-Scholarly Writing .pdf
2012-Student Information Form-Scholarly Writing .pdf
Mississippi Nurses Foundation School of Nursing Scholarship
SON 1000 scholarship criteria 2013- CLOSED
SON 1000 scholarship form 2013-CLOSED
This $1000 scholarship is for nursing students enrolled in an accredited Associate or Baccalaureate Nursing Program in Mississippi.
Georgia Ann Bernard Hall Award for Excellence-Deadline November 23, 2012
This $500 scholarship is available to an African American Nursing Students enrolled at one of Mississippi universities BSN programs.
Click here to download Georgia Ann Benard Hall Award for Excellence Criteria PDF-CLOSED
2012 Winner:
Jalesha Chayelle Atkins
University of Southern Mississippi
Nurse Oneita Dongieux Award for Excellence
This $500 scholarship is awarded to a nursing student enrolled in good academic standing at one of Mississippi schools of nursing.
2012 Winners of Nurse Oneita Dongieux Award
Lauren Horn
Mississippi College
Laura Cummings
Jones County Jr. College
Click here to download Oneita Dongieux Student Information Form PDF (2013)
Click here to download Oneita Dongieux Award for Excellence PDF (2013)
Scholarly Writing Scholarship
This $1000 scholarship is awarded to a registered nurse enrolled in a doctoral program for nursing in Mississippi.
Click here to download Call for Entries. Closed
2011 R.H. Green Foundation Scholarship Recipents:
Elizabeth Wright
Hinds Community College
Jalessa Terrell
Mississippi College
To learn more about the Mississippi Nurses Foundation scholarships, please call 601-898-0850.