Arizona Foundation for the Future of Nursing Scholarships

Scholarship Value: $2,500

Awards Available: 2

Award Deadline: Aug 1, 2025


Arizona Foundation for the Future of Nursing (AzFFN) is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) charitable and philanthropic arm of the Arizona Nurses Association (AzNA). Funding to support the Foundation and its activities comes from individual contributions, business donations, bequests, recognitions, and memorials.

Ensuring a Strong Nursing Workforce for Arizona

To ensure that Arizona has a sustainable nursing workforce to continuously enhance and strengthen Arizona nurses’ ability to deliver safe, quality care and assure health and wellness for all, the Arizona Foundation for the Future of Nursing (AzFFN) offers a variety of scholarships.

Applicants may be enrolled part-time or full-time. Recipients may submit an application for each semester as long as he or she is enrolled in a nursing program and will not be graduating before the granting period. More information and detailed content criteria, tips for submission, and the scholarship application process can be found by clicking the APPLY button.

2025 Applications are now open. Applications are due August 1, 2025. Clicking the apply button will download the criteria to your device. Please check your downloads!

Hear from past winner, Danielle DiPasqual, on how this scholarship helped her!

Criteria for Scholarship Application via Video

To ensure that Arizona has a sustainable nursing workforce to continuously enhance and strengthen Arizona nurses’ ability to deliver safe, quality care and assure health and wellness for all, Arizona Foundation for the Future of Nursing (AzFFN) offers a variety of scholarships.

AzFFN is offering $2500.00 academic scholarships to students currently enrolled in a prelicensure Bachelor of Science in Nursing.

Criteria for Eligibility

  • Enrolled in a prelicensure BSN Nursing Program or Associate Degree in Nursing with concurrent enrollment in a BSN Nursing program
  • Completed at least one semester of the BSN nursing program curriculum
  • Member of Student Nurses Association
  • Submit a 7-10 minute video responding to the content criteria outline (video should be recorded in landscape orientation with adequate lighting in a quiet space, background should be neutral and should not contain personal visuals such as name or school, videos should not contain distractions such as other individuals in the background or excessive extraneous noise)
  • If selected for the scholarship award, the recipient agrees to be present to receive the award and allow the video to be shown at the AzNA Convention on September 13, 2025. COMPLETE THE ATTENTION BELOW AND SUBMIT ALONG WITH VIDEO

Attach Evidence of Current Enrollment and completion of one semester of BSN Curriculum:

Applicants are required to:

  • submit current documentation of enrollment in a BSN nursing program.  Such documentation must identify applicant and school and may include, but is not limited to, a transcript (official or unofficial) or current course schedule, and
  • submit a letter of reference from a current faculty member in the BSN program attesting to your commitment to leadership and nursing practice.
  • If this information is not attached, the application will be automatically rejected.
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