Grants for LPN Students

Pell Grant

• Perhaps the best known grant is the federal Pell Grant, available to undergraduates based on financial need. To qualify for a Pell, or any other kind of financial assistance for that matter, you must first complete a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). If you've wrestled with this form before, you'll be pleased to find that it's been streamlined considerably, and the 150-plus-question paper version is all but obsolete, since more than 90 percent of applicants now complete the application on-line.

  FAFSA

  1-800-433-3243

  fafsa.ed.gov

Student Aid Office

• Your student aid office keeps an eye on local scholarships and grants that may not be advertised on the Internet. All you have to do is ask, and your student aid officer will be glad to point you in the right direction.

Health Occupation Students of America

• Health Occupation Students of America offers grants and scholarships to nursing students who are also HOSA members.

  Health Occupation Students of America

  6021 Morriss Road, Ste. 111

  Flower Mound, TX 75028

  800-321-HOSA

  hosa.org

Exceptional Nurse

• Exceptional Nurse sponsors several programs that award relatively small ($250 to $500) scholarships and grants to nursing students with documented disabilities.

  Exceptional Nurse

  Scholarship Committee

  13019 Coastal Circle

  Palm Beach, FL 33410

  561-627-9872

  exceptionalnurse.com

National Black Nurses Association, Inc.

• The National Black Nurses Association, Inc. awards scholarships from $500 to $2,000 to NBNA members who are enrolled in a nursing program, are in good academic standing, and are actively involved in the African-American community.

  National Black Nurses Assoc. Inc.

  Scholarship Committee

  8630 Fenton Street, Ste. 330

  Silver Spring, MD 20901

  301-589-3200

  nbna.org

Scholarships of the United Daughters of the Confederacy

• This program offers two scholarships pertinent to nursing. The first, the Phoebe Pember Memorial Scholarship, is awarded to a student who is enrolled in a school of nursing. The Walter Reed Smith scholarship is awarded to a female applying for a nursing degree. All recipients must be direct descendants of soldiers who served honorably in the Confederate Army. Membership in the organization and active participation in a local chapter is encouraged but not required.

  Scholarships of the Daughters of the Confederacy

  Attn. Ed. Director

  328 N. Boulevard

  Richmond, VA 23220-4057

  804-335-1396

  hqudc.org