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Your contribution will help support the 4 million nurses across the nation who touch our lives.

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We all depend on nurses, and our nurses are depending on you.
Nurses are a crucial part of our health care system. We all depend on nurses at some point in our lives. They get us through some of our most difficult moments, helping us heal, monitoring our well-being, and simply listening and compassionately caring.
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We all depend on nurses, and our nurses are depending on you.
Nurses are a crucial part of our health care system. We all depend on nurses at some point in our lives. They get us through some of our most difficult moments, helping us heal, monitoring our well-being, and simply listening and caring.

Give back to nursing.

Your support helps us fund critical initiatives to support nurses.

Your generous support provides resources that help individual nurses and the nursing profession overall, through a variety of programs and initiatives. You can choose how your dollars are spent and dedicate your donation to a nurse who has made a difference in your life. No contribution is too small—every dollar counts.

 
Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation™
This program promotes nurses’ health and well-being by engaging them with fun monthly challenges, online interaction, and wellness incentives. So far, more than 250,000 nurses have joined this powerful online movement. Learn more
 
Nurses on Boards
This initiative is part of a national effort to increase nurse representation on boards of directors governing health care organizations and other corporate and community-based boards. Putting nurses on organizations’ boards can add value to conversations that impact important decisions. The initiative focuses on boards in nonprofit, for-profit, and philanthropic organizations. Learn more
 
Nursing Research Grants
This program supports scientific research for promoting health and preventing disease by advancing the practice of nursing. The program has raised more than $5 million in donations since 1955, funding more than 1,100 nursing research projects. Learn more
 
Coronavirus Response Fund for Nurses
The Fund is an opportunity for the public to support the mental health of nurses, ensure nurses have access to the latest science-based information to protect and prevent against infection, and drive advocacy that is focused on nurses and patients. Learn more
 
Well-Being Initiative
Every day, millions of nurses nationwide experience extraordinary impacts to their mental health and well-being due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Well-Being Initiative offers resources focused on caring for nurses, in partnership with four leading nurse organizations. Learn more
 
Defining Hope
What makes life worth living? How do we cope with serious illness? With the support of the American Nurses Foundation, award-winning filmmaker Carolyn Jones has brought these insights to life in Defining HOPE, a documentary about patients with life-threatening illnesses and the nurses who share their journeys. Learn more

You can choose how your dollars are spent and dedicate your donation to a nurse who has made a difference in your life. No contribution is too small—every dollar counts.

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Nurse Donates Her Liver to Save a Life
Eight-year old Brayden Auten was overcome with severe stomach pain and diarrhea. Doctors at Children’s Hospital of Milwaukee discovered that his liver had stopped working. His family members and friends were tested for a match, unsuccessfully. Nurse Loritz wanted to help, and so she signed up to become a living donor.
Read Brayden's story on Nurse Focus.
 
A Lifetime of Nursing
Charles M. Schlom's mother, Corinne, entered the Cadet Nursing Program in 1944 at 17 years old. She later worked for Nancy Reagan’s father as a surgical nurse then devoted the rest of her career to geriatric nursing. At 92 years old, Corinne could still be seen working twice a week.
Read her son’s story on Nurse Focus.
 
Leslie's Legacy
Leslie Kiely was an energetic and beloved physical education teacher at Swampscott Public Schools. In Spring 2018, Leslie wrote to the Boston Globe to recognize the nurse who had worked tirelessly to support her during her battle with ovarian cancer. Leslie passed later that year. Read her story on Nurse Focus.
Read her story on Nurse Focus.
 
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ABOUT THE AMERICAN NURSES FOUNDATION

As the philanthropic arm of the American Nurses Association (ANA), our mission is to transform the nation’s health through the power of nursing. This is more relevant today than ever. With the future of health care changing so dramatically, nurses can revolutionize the approach to care for the better. The Foundation pursues this mission through:

  • Elevating the value of nursing;
  • Improving nurses’ health;
  • Strengthening leadership skills and opportunities for nurses; and
  • Generating new knowledge and policy.

Every day, the Foundation helps nurses achieve their goals and supports nurse-led research on issues that affect the profession and public health overall. We invest in the well-being and success of individual nurses while championing the value and voice of nursing throughout health care.

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