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
$5,000 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.
Opens April 1, 2018 – Deadline June 15, 2018
Criteria – Stipend for AD BS Students 2018
Criteria – Stipend Masters Doctoral 2018
Student Information – Stipend 2018
The 2017-2018 Car Tag Stipend Recipients
Associate Degree Nursing Program
Mason Caldwell
Itawamba Community College
Emma Dabbs
Itawamba Community College
Austin Griffin
Jones County Junior College
Antonio McBeth
Hinds Community College
Amanda McKenzie
Jones County Junior College
Baccalaureate Nursing Program
LaRissa Arbuckle
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Skylar Brodie
Mississippi University for Women
Darius Carter
University of Southern Mississippi
Minnie Duke
Mississippi University for Women
Brittany Earls
Delta State University
Courtney Lucas
Mississippi University for Women
Mallory Moore
Mississippi College
London Prather
Mississippi College
La’Tesha Smith
Mississippi University for Women
Ashley Williamson
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Mandy Wilson
Mississippi University for Women
Masters Nursing Program
Jennifer Lynn Berryhill
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Ashley Fitzhugh
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Hayden Kilgore
Mississippi University for Women
Ebonique Martin
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Kathyrn Smith
University of Southern Mississippi
Doctoral Nursing Program
Holley Kaye Harris
Mississippi University for Women
2017 School Nurse Scholarship Winner
Mary LeAnne Griffith
Jones County Junior College
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Eileen S. and Earl C. Whittemore Advance Practiced/Nurse Practitioner Scholarship
MNF and The Gulf Coast Community Foundation will award $2,500 to an APRN student on behalf of the Eileen S. and Earl C. Whittemore, Jr Fund. The applicant must be a member of MNA and be a resident of Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River, Stone or George County. Deadline Date – July 6, 2018
2018 Eileen S. and Earl C. Whittemore Fund Application
Mississippi Nurses Foundation Research Grant
MNF provides up to $2,000 in research grants. The applicant must 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 2017.
Katherine Rigdon
The Georgia Ann Benard Hall Award of Excellence
This $500 scholarship is given in honor of Georgia Ann Benard Hall to a Mississippi nursing student every year.
Opens September 1st – Deadline November 16, 2018.
2017 Georgia Ann Benard Hall Award of Excellence Scholarship Winner
Tineka Gladney
Mississippi University for Women
Arthur Davis Scholaly Writing Scholarship
$1,000 scholarship awarded to an RN who is a member of MNA and enrolled in a doctoral nursing program in Mississippi
2017 Call for Entries-Scholarly Writing
2017 – Student Information Form-Scholarly Writing
Opens October 1st – Deadline is August 20, 2018
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The Hiawatha and Eunice Northington Memorial Scholarship $1,000 Scholarship
This scholarship established by LaDonna Northington, Monica Northington and Hiawatha Northington II, in memory of their dear parents, is designed to assist Nurse or Nurse Practitioner students who will work with geriatric clients to assure excellence of medical care to these patients in their sunset years.
Deadline – November 30, 2018
Hiawatha and Eunice Northington Memorial Scholarship Criteria 2018
Student Information – Northington -2018
The Brantley-Fletcher Award of Hope Book Scholarship
This $500 scholarship is given in honor and memory of Earlene “Bobbie” Brantley and Allie Mae Fletcher to a Mississippi nursing student.
Opens October 1st – Deadline December 18, 2018
2017 Brantley-Fletcher Award of Hope Book Scholarship Winner
Tewana Johnson
Mississippi College
Brantley-Fletcher Award of HOPE Book Scholarship Criteria 2017
Brantley – Fletcher Award of Hope Scholorship Application 2017
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.
Opens December 1 – Deadline February 1, 2019
2018 Nurse Oneita Dongieux Award for Excellence Scholarship Winners
Ifeoma Anakor
University of Southern Mississippi
Tiffany Slaughter
Mississippi University for Women
Oneita Dongieux Award for Excellence Criteria 2018
Oneita Dongieux Student Information Form 2018
Betty Dickson Health Policy Award
Up to $2,000 to attend a national health policy meeting/conference. (Airline accommodations, if needed, hotel accommodations, conference cost, food and gratuity.) MNF will reimburse after all receipts have been received.
2017-18 Betty Dickson Health Policy Scholarship Criteria
2017-18 Betty Dickson Award Information Application
Opens December 1 – Deadline is February 8, 2019
2018 Betty Dickson Health Policy Award Recipient – Juanita Graham, DNP-RN, FRSPH
Mississippi Nurses Foundation School of Nursing Scholarship
SON 1000 scholarship criteria 2018
SON 1000 Scholarship Application 2018
Opens January 1, 2018 – Deadline is March 16, 2018
This $1,000 scholarship is for nursing students enrolled in an accredited Associate or Baccalaureate Nursing Program in Mississippi.
Congratulations to the 2018 Winners of the MNF School of Nursing Scholarship!
This scholarship is made possible by the Emma Burdonne Young Scholarship Fund
| Alcorn State University | |
| Belhaven University | |
| Coahoma Community College | |
| Delta State University | |
| East Central Community College | |
| East Mississippi Community College | |
| Hinds Community College | |
| Holmes Community College | |
| Itawamba Community College | |
| Jones County Jr. College | |
| Meridian Community College | |
| Mississippi College | |
| Mississippi Delta Community College | |
| Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College | |
| Mississippi University for Women | |
| Northeast Mississippi Community College | |
| Northwest Mississippi Community College | |
| Pearl River Community College | |
| Southwest Mississippi Community College | |
| UMMC School of Nursing | |
| University of Southern Mississippi | |
| William Carey University | |
To learn more about the Mississippi Nurses Foundation scholarships, please call 601-898-0850.