Annual Fund

Gifts to Columbia Nursing’s Annual Fund support the next generation of nurse leaders. Your generosity helps students receive financial aid and enhanced resources for an outstanding practice-based education that will enable them to advocate and influence best practices and excellence in health care for communities across the nation and around the world.
Student Scholarship Fund
Your support of the Student Scholarship Fund ensures that today’s students have access to a superb education to achieve their dreams of making a difference in health care. Gifts of $5,000 help fund a student for one year and provide the opportunity for a one-year named scholarship.
Make a Gift to the Student Scholarship Fund
Global Fellows Fund
Your support of the Global Fellows Fund enables students to have a unique global clinical experience, focusing mainly on Global South countries where health care is a limited resource. Clinical integrations take place in: La Romana, Dominican Republic; St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago; Amman, Jordan; Turin, Italy; Panchgani, India; Beersheba, Israel; Banjul, The Gambia; Lilongwe, Malawi; Ho and Dzodze, Ghana; Nairobi, Kenya; and Lusaka, Zambia. The experience remains for a lifetime, serving, inspiring and informing practice.
Make a Gift to the Global Fellows Fund
Dean's Discretionary Fund
The Dean’s Discretionary Fund provides the dean with the flexibility to address students’ most pressing needs in this time of change.
Through the newly launched program, Pathways to Leadership and Advancement in Nursing, the Dean’s Discretionary Fund offers tuition relief, academic support and career coaching, with the goal of strengthening the pool of graduate-prepared nurses focused on social justice and health equity in underrepresented communities.
Your gift to the Annual Fund-Dean’s Discretionary Fund provides students with the personalized resources to excel and become the next generation of health care leaders to transform nursing and reduce health disparities for the underserved.
Make a Gift to the Dean's Discretionary Fund
Annual Fund donors who make a gift at the $500 level* and above are recognized in the Dean's Leadership Society.
*We are delighted to offer a special membership to the Dean’s Leadership Society at the $250+ level for recent Columbia Nursing graduates of classes 2011-2022.
Annual Fund Committee
- Joan Hagan Arnold, BS '69, Glen Cove, New York
- Daniel D. Billings, DNP '18, Forest Hills, New York
- Monica Buff Burrell, MS '12, Brookhaven, Georgia
- Christa Simpson Heinsler, BS '76, Rochester, New York
- Kevin Daugherty Hook, BS ’98, Haddon Township, New Jersey
Chair - Denise Houghton, BS ’78, Belle Mead, New Jersey
- Marty Cohn Romney, MS '81, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
Contact
Janine Handfus
Associate Director, Annual Fund
212-305-0079
jh2526@columbia.edu