Five Nurses Celebrated for Leadership and Innovation in Advancing Health Equity

Oct 31, 2023

2023 Equity-Minded Nurse Awards PRESS RELASEContact: Mary Boyle, Campaign for Action communications director, mboyle@aarp.org A nurse educator in Maryland who centers health equity in classroom innovations and program implementation. A nurse practitioner in more

AARP & RWJF Name Recipients of Health Equity Innovations Fund Awards

Jan 10, 2023

Updated as of August 15, 2023 Contact: Mary Boyle, CCNA Communications Director at mboyle@aarp.org The AARP Center for Health Equity through NursingSM and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP, and the Robert Wood Johnson more

Campaign Moving Forward to Build Health Equity Through Nursing

Jul 08, 2022

The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action is pleased to announce that it will implement a new three-year grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to continue its work disrupting structural barriers to health equity by tapping the full potential of a diverse more

Campaign Names Winners of 2021 Nursing Innovations Fund Award

Oct 07, 2021

The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), has announced that six nurse-led projects will receive Nursing Innovations Fund awards of up to $25,000 each. The projects submitted by the more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Health Equity Location: Delaware Kentucky Montana Pennsylvania Utah West Virginia

A Heartfelt Thank You

Jan 14, 2021

First, a heartfelt thank you. Thank you for the contributions that we know you have made to your family, your community, the profession, and more, during a year of enormous challenges that include sickness in our ranks, burnout, grief, and worse. The pandemic has tested the more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Collecting Workforce Data Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Improving Access to Care Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education

Campaign Names 2020 Nursing Innovations Fund Award Winners

Oct 06, 2020

The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), is pleased to announce that 10 projects proposed by its state-based Action Coalitions, or in a few cases, organizations designated by an Action more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Access to Care Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Arkansas Georgia Kentucky Nebraska North Carolina Pennsylvania Tennessee Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

New Law to Improve Californians Access to Care
Consumers to Benefit from Improved Health Equity

Sep 30, 2020

California’s 39 million residents will have significantly improved access to care from advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), thanks to legislation more

Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: California

Racism and Injustice Have No Place in Our Country

Jun 12, 2020

Since the videotaped killing of George Floyd, the issue of systemic racism has come to the fore: among neighbors, in America’s workplaces and homes, and most visibly in the streets of cities large and small. His brutal killing was yet another reminder of the racism and more