PIN Partner Grantees
The PIN Partner Grantees represent a diverse group of foundations planning a wide range of program initiatives.
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2008 PIN Partner Grantees
1) American State Bank (Texas)
West Texas Alliance for Simulation through Application and Partnerships, in partnership with the South Plains Nursing Education Community Coalition, will develop a regional network to facilitate the delivery and sharing of simulation-based curricula by nursing education providers throughout the West Texas Region.
2) Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation (New York)
Nurses as Leaders in Long-Term Care: Building Competencies and Commitment will focus on specific management skills to prepare registered nurses for the future demands of geriatric skilled nursing leadership. The initiative will also explore management and leadership competencies and skills needed to work with a diverse long-term care workforce.
3) Dimmer Family Foundation, with Gary E. Milgard Family Foundation, Bruce W. Gilpin Memorial Foundation (Washington)
Comprehensive Gerontologic Education Partnership will train a cohort of nursing students with a gerontologic focus; recruit three nursing faculty members with specialized expertise in gerotonologic nursing; provide faculty development to improve the status of gerontological instruction and clinical work; expand clinical placements and experiences in gero-nursing throughout pre-licensure curriculum; and implement and/or strengthen the American Association of Colleges of Nursing gero-competencies throughout the region.
4) Friends of the College of the Marshall Islands Foundation with the Bank of Guam (Marshall Islands)
Nursing Faculty Development in Pacific Island Colleges and Universities brings together the American Pacific Nurse Leaders Council, the World Health Organization and others to strengthen the faculty of the nursing education programs within the U.S. Affiliated Pacific Island jurisdictions. The project will establish and strengthen relationships among practicing nurses and nursing educational providers; implement and test communication technologies that will facilitate educational exchange and professional development; and foster strategies for resource sharing among Pacific Island nursing programs, hospitals and public health departments.
5) Greater San Antonio Healthcare Foundation (Texas)
South Texas Acts for Nursing Development (S.T.A.N.D.), a regional funding partnership that includes major and rural healthcare systems, the regional workforce system and the County Commissioners Court, will establish a Workforce Management Center dedicated to implementing the goals of the Nurse Executive Forum (NEF) of the Greater San Antonio Hospital Council. The NEF goals are to increase student placement in clinical agencies in San Antonio and South Texas; maximize public and private nursing faculty resources; and grow the number of nurse educators through a Nurse Scholars Program.
6) Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City, with The REACH Healthcare Foundation (Kansas, Missouri)
Bi-State Nursing Workforce Innovation Center of Greater Kansas City will create the Bi-State Nursing Workforce Innovation Center that will develop a Clinical Scene Investigator Academy for 10 staff nurses with curricula in leadership, collaboration and innovation theory and input from consumers; provide mentoring and grants for each point of care project and disseminate project results at a statewide Nursing Innovation Conference in 2010.
7) Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence through the Jewish Communal Fund, New York and Foundations of North Carolina (New York and North Carolina)
A Multi-Regional Model to Increase the Proportion of Baccalaureate Nurses in the U.S. will create partnerships between associate and baccalaureate nursing programs in urban New York City and rural North Carolina to increase (1) the number of nurses educated at the baccalaureate level; (2) those poised to pursue graduate nursing education at masters and doctoral levels; (3) the proportion of baccalaureate nurses from racially and ethnically diverse groups, and (4) the number of nursing students in public health and gerontological nursing.
8) The Oregon Community Foundation, with Samuel S. Johnson Foundation (Oregon)
Nurturing Cultural Competence in Nursing will select, support and evaluate projects at health care agencies and schools of nursing in Oregon and southwest Washington focused on improving cultural competence of practicing nurses, nursing faculty and/or nursing students to recruit and retain a diverse nursing workforce and address long-standing disparities in the health care system.
9) The San Francisco Foundation, with The California Endowment, David B. Gold Foundation (California)
Bay Area Workforce Funding Collaborative (BAWFC) Nursing Education Initiative will support the launch of the East Bay Immigrant Nurse Re-entry Program to significantly increase the number of new nurses in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties; launch a community college capacity building initiative with a focus on strengthening nursing education programs; and strengthen the BAWFC partnership and partner investments in nursing projects.
10) Wyoming Community Foundation (Wyoming)
Nursing Workforce Project of Wyoming will create a state nursing workforce center to act as a central clearing place and coordinator for statewide efforts; select, support and evaluate five pilot programs that will address identified nursing workforce issues, with at least one program that takes place in a long term care setting; and disseminate pilot program results through the nursing workforce center.
2007 PIN Partner Grantees
1) Midland Area Community Foundation, with Bay Area Community Foundation, Saginaw Community Foundation, Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation (Michigan)
Foundations Underwriting Nursing Development will offer local foundations the opportunity to become proactively involved in the issue. The project will address future workforce issues by supporting Practice Scholars who will work as RNs, attend educational facilities and teach clinical practice.
2) Richmond Memorial Health Foundation, with The Cameron Foundation (Virginia)
Central Virginia Nursing Leadership Institute will implement an innovative community-wide, year-long fellowship for emerging nursing leaders.
3) Pitt Memorial Hospital Foundation, with The Duke Endowment, Medical Foundation of ECU, Inc. (North Carolina)
PRN: Partnering for Rural Nursing will mobilize nurses to be effective partners and leaders in creating healthier communities in 29 rural counties in Eastern North Carolina.
4) Project ARRIBA, with Wolslager Foundation (Texas)
Lifting Hispanic Nurses Along the Border will increase nursing education opportunities for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds while leading those living in poverty to economic self-sufficiency.
5) Oklahoma Hospital Research Foundation Trust (Oklahoma)
Using Advanced Technology to Develop Future Nurse Leaders will use telecommunications and web-based technology to deliver leadership and faculty development courses to incumbent nurses and nurse educators in rural and diverse communities in Oklahoma.
6) Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation, with M.E. and F.J. Callahan Foundation (Ohio)
North East Ohio Nursing Faculty Corps will increase the supply of new nursing faculty, increase the capacity of new and existing nurse faculty in the use of simulation, experiential learning methods and emerging information technologies, and increase the number of certified nurse educators among academia in northeast Ohio.
7) Illinois Prairie Community Foundation (Illinois)
Partners in Nursing of Central Illinois will improve nursing retention in Central Illinois by changing the educational infrastructure and faculty development with an emphasis on long-term care.
8) Faye McBeath Foundation, with Greater Milwaukee Foundation, Northwestern Mutual Foundation (Wisconsin)
Raising the Bar: Redesigning Community and Public Health Nursing in Wisconsin will address the shortage of a diverse workforce of nurses in community and public health settings.
9) Dakota Medical Foundation (North Dakota)
North Dakota Nursing Career Lattice Consortium Project will expand the production and placement of highly qualified nurses and nursing faculty in a rural-frontier region through an integrated and long-term consortium. It will establish strategic partnerships with education institutions, health care providers, workforce and economic development entities, business partners and health organizations to promote sustainability.
10) Con Alma Health Foundation, with New Mexico Community Foundation (New Mexico)
Project DIVERSITY will increase the ethnic diversity of nurses in New Mexico through a collaborative, comprehensive recruitment, nurse-student mentoring and tutoring initiative targeting 60 youth Hispanic and ative-American students.
11) Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, with Tennessee Nurses Foundation, Baptist Healing Trust, he Memorial Foundation, The Community Foundation of Greater Memphis, The East Tennessee Foundation, Healthcare Corporation of America Foundation (Tennessee)
The Nursing Crisis in Tennessee: Building Capacity through Collaboration will expand educational capacity by increasing the number of clinical placement opportunities, enhancing the online clinical orientation process, increasing the supply of qualified nurse educators and promoting a culture for retention by identifying and implementing industry-wide strategies that foster a positive nursing work environment. |
