Nightingale Foundation General Guidelines & Instructions
- Funding programs are available to prospective and current nursing students attending Nightingale College.
- All applicants must demonstrate a need for gap funding and proof of High School graduation or GED completion.
- Each Fund Program has respective guidelines and eligibility requirements. Please ensure you are eligible for the program you are applying for. Ineligible applicants will be removed from the review process.
Questions about the Funding Programs? Contact Katy Shoemaker, Executive Director or Lindsey McBride, Director of Programs. If you need assistance in completing the Scholarship Application, please reach out to the Nightingale College Scholarship Success Team.
AI Usage Policy: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Usage Policy for Scholarship Applications
Please ensure you reference the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Usage Policy for Scholarship Applications to comply with this policy, it's allowed and prohibited usage of AI in scholarship applications, and for information on how Nightingale Foundation reviews, acts within compliance, and verification of AI usage. All scholarship applicants are expected to review and uphold this policy.
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Nightingale Foundation
Carolyn Johnson Scholarship Fund - Summer 2026 Cycle - Round 2
The Carolyn Johnson Scholarship Fund is offered to Nightingale College learners to honor, Carolyn Johnson who by any measure, led a rewarding and fulfilling life as a nurse and mother. Born to a large (ten children) rural family in Iowa in 1919, she aspired to being a healthcare provider. Leaving the farm, she attended a hospital school of nursing in Michigan. Entering the profession upon graduation, she practiced for several years. With marriage she became a full-time mother, raising five children to adulthood, doubtless calling upon her nursing skills from time-to-time. When her last fledgling left the family nest, she upgraded and advanced her nursing skills, and returned to the hospital floor for several years, eventually retiring. Carolyn died in 2002.
Carolyn Johnson was always proud of being a nurse and took much gratification in being a care-giver. She always supported and encouraged personal and professional advancement through education. If still with us, Carolyn would appreciate the value and values of Nightingale College and particularly the opportunities it affords individuals who might not otherwise be served. She would be proud of having her name on this scholarship fund and helping Johnson Scholars achieve their dreams.
This fund will award and honor Nightingale College learners who hold similar values to Carolyn, aspiring to hold attributes of care-giving, compassion, determination, and preserving to achieve their dreams of becoming a nurse. Awardees of this fund will be named as Johnson Scholars, in memory of the late Carolyn Johnson.
Process: The Carolyn Johnson Scholarship Fund has a two-part application process. The first part is open to all who are eligible to apply by filling out the scholarship application. The top 5 finalists from the application round will be invited to provide a video interview, as the second part of the process (7/27/2026-8/2/2026). To be considered for the Carolyn Johnson Scholarship Fund, all applicants must participate in this process.
Fund Eligibility: The Carolyn Johnson Scholarship Fund is open to any current, matriculated, undergraduate learner at Nightingale College, who has a demonstrated need for gap funding and is currently enrolled in any prelicensure nursing program at Nightingale College. Scholarship funds can be used for tuition and fees, books, child-care, transportation, housing, and any other social determinants of education needs.
Selected scholarship awardees will be required to provide impact stories, scholarship awardee data, and communicate with Nightingale Foundation throughout and after the scholarship awarding process.
Award Details: The Carolyn Johnson Scholarship Fund will award 2 Learners a scholarship of $10,000 each.
Fund Restrictions:
- Learners must have a demonstrated need for gap funding.
- Scholarship funds may only be applied to the following semester and will not be distributed to the learner after withdrawal. If upon withdrawal, the available financial aid creates a negative ledger balance, the excess funds will be returned to the Foundation.
- Scholarship funds can be used for tuition and fees, books, child-care, transportation, housing, and any other social determinants of education needs.