The Learner Disaster Relief Fund is offered to current Nightingale College Learners who are experiencing or have been affected by a current disaster and need financial assistance to be able to continue their respective nursing program at Nightingale College. When disaster strikes, Nightingale College learners may not have access to their everyday support systems, resources, and basic needs. Yet, even in the face of adversity, many learners want to continue their education and give back to their communities as future nurses.

Fund Donor(s): Various Nightingale Education Group Collaborators

Fund Eligibility: To be considered for the Learner Disaster Relief Fund from the Nightingale Foundation, applicants must meet all of the following eligibility criteria. 

• Be currently enrolled as a learner at Nightingale College
• Be currently experiencing a disaster*. 
• Have a financial need for support due to the effects of aforementioned disaster. Examples of financial needs include tuition (due to in ability to pay for basic resources), basic resources (shelter/housing, utilities, food, supplies, sanitation, transportation, first aid, hospital fees (due to accidents or issues incurred during disaster), emergency blankets and clothing, and other essentials. 

*Disaster is defined as one or any of the following: A serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society at any scale. An unforeseen event that overwhelms local capacity, necessitating external assistance. It results in significant damage, destruction, and human suffering. An event where a community faces severe danger and incurs significant losses to persons or property, taxing available resources. An event that results in great harm, damage, or death. 

Examples of disasters may include (but are not limited to): 

• Hurricanes
• Tornados
• Earthquakes
• Floods
• Fires (house or wild)
• Other Natural Disasters

Fund Budget: Varies

• This fund will remain open and available for applications at any time. Funding to be disbursed as funds are available and at the discretion of Nightingale Foundation. 

Fund Restrictions

• Funds are only available to learners attending Nightingale College that are experiencing a disaster. 
• Nightingale Foundation has the right to refuse an application if eligibility conditions are not met. 

All scholarship awardees will be required to sign an Award Agreement and provide Nightingale Foundation with impact stories post award. 

INVITATION ONLY - Do not apply if you have not received a direct email from Nightingale Foundation inviting you to apply. 

The Bittner Scholarship Fund is offered annually to support individuals desiring to enter the nursing profession who demonstrate the fundamental values an individual must hold to provide caring and professional care to others. These values include a strong work ethic, passionate about healing, and promoting improved health outcomes within populations. 

  The Bittner Scholarship Fund is open to any prospective or current learner at Nightingale College, who has demonstrated need for gap funding. Scholarship funds can only be used to support tuition and books. Preference will be given to learners who:   

• Awarded funds would mitigate risk for a potential nurse not entering the program due to lack of funds. 
• Demonstrate dedication to the nursing program who are in jeopardy due to economic situations. 
• To prevent a potential drop from the program due to economic hardship. 

The Bittner 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 3 finalists from the application round will be invited to provide a video interview, as the second part of the process. To be considered for the Bittner Scholarship Fund, all applicants must participate in this process. 

Selected scholarship awardees will be required to write a letter and present to the Foundation Board of Directors on how this funding helped to achieve nursing school goals, how this funding prevented a potential need to drop out of the program and/or how the funding gave more time to focus on academic progression. 

  One scholarship per academic year will be awarded. The scholarship recipient will be announced between weeks 15 - 18 of the Fall 2024 semester.