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. 

Nichols Scholarship Fund - Fall 2025 Cycle - Round 1

Fund Purpose: The Nichols Scholarship Fund is offered annually to support individuals who are actively working in the nursing profession as a PN, CNA, or other associates level nursing degree, and who desire to continue their nursing education to become an RN. This fund is created in gratitude and recognition for the incredible care and compassion that nurses, nurses’ aids, and LVNs provide to individuals and families during challenging times. Their dedication, warmth, and tireless efforts often bring comfort and healing when it is needed most. 

This scholarship is designed to offer a meaningful step up to these individuals: nursing students who are working hard to build a better future, who work diligently to care for their community, and who may need a little extra financial help to get there. Whether the funds go toward tuition, childcare, books, or simply easing the cost of daily life while in school, this scholarship exists to honor the essential work of nurses and caregivers for them to be able to achieve their dreams of becoming an RN.

Fund Eligibility: The Nichols Scholarship Fund is open to any current learner at Nightingale College, who has a demonstrated need for gap funding, lives in the state of California, and is currently enrolled in the LPN-ASN or BSN programs and is currently a working professional in the healthcare field. Scholarship funds can be used for tuition and fees, books, child-care, transportation, housing, and any other social determinants of education needs. 

The Nichols 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 Nichols Scholarship Fund, all applicants must participate in this process. 

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: One learner will be awarded annually in the amount of $3,000. 

Fund Process: 

• Round 1 Applications are open from 9/5/2025 - 10/20/2025
• Top 5 Scoring applicants will be invited to provide a video interview, which will open on 11/24/2025 - 12/8/2025.

Fund Restrictions: 

• Learner must reside in California, be enrolled in either the LPN-ASN or BSN programs, and currently be a working professional in the healthcare field.
• 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.  

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 5 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 by December 19th. 

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

Nightingale Foundation

Carolyn Johnson Scholarship Fund - Fall 2025 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 (11/7/2025 - 11/16/2025). 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.