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A newsletter of the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.


October 5, 2021Send shout-outs, story ideas, and webinar information to Aidan McCallion at
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Meet Our New State Leaders


Welcome! A new monthly feature to highlight the Campaign's new volunteers.




Dawna Cato

PhD, RN, NPD-BC
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Arizona


Lisa Hawthorne

PhD, MSN, RN, PHN, CNE

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Louisiana


Melanie Logue

PhD, DNP, FNP-C

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Arizona






Campaign News and Features

AAN Honors Georges, Villarruel for Years of Efforts
The American Academy of Nursing’s Lifetime Legacy Award will go to Catherine Alicia Georges, EdD, RN, FAAN; and Antonia M. Villarruel, PhD, RN, FAAN, has earned AAN’s Health Care Leader Award. Those Campaign for Action allies are among five luminaries AAN honors for their efforts to improve care and advance health equity.

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Nursing Can Create Financial Health, Too
Nursing is a path to better health — for those who are cared for, and also those who enter the field and thus assure their financial security. A recent piece on the Campaign blog examines how a nursing career is open to people from a diversity of backgrounds, noting that a broader, more diverse nursing workforce will increase health equity, and that such an expansion in nursing’s ranks can also address America’s wealth gap.

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W. Va. Program Blossoms Into Entrepreneurial Winner
From the seed known as the West Virginia Nurse Entrepreneur Project, funded in 2018 by the Campaign’s Nursing Innovations Fund, will soon grow the Center for Nurse Entrepreneurship, funded in part by $630,000 from the Appalachian Regional Commission. Now the Future of Nursing West Virginia can expand its program, which helps nurses start their own practices, in myriad ways.

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Vaccine Uptake and Concerns: Nurses Respond
Even as more Americans become fully vaccinated against COVID-19, some populations in the U.S. have lower rates of vaccination. Among Hispanic people, it’s lack of access as well as “hesitancy,” notes Adriana Perez, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, Campaign adviser and a nurse expert featured in a series of informational videos from Elite Learning.

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Action Coalitions: What’s Up? Tell Us So That We Can Share
Fans of the Campaign for Action like to learn what’s happening in other states. But we might not know your stories. Help us celebrate your efforts and share details of progress by dropping a note to Aidan McCallion at
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Funding, Tools, and Other Opportunities

New - RWJF Health Policy Fellows Sought
Are you a midcareer health professional or behavioral/social scientist with an interest in health and health care policy? Ready for a full-time commitment with a minimum 12-month residence in Washington, D.C.? The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows program is looking for you, and other leaders seeking to improve health equity, health care, and health policy. Deadline: November 12.

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Public Health AmeriCorps To Start “New Generation” of Leaders
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and AmeriCorps are partnering on an initiative that aims to develop “a new generation of public health leaders who will be ready to respond to the nation’s public health needs.” Public Health AmeriCorps will recruit and build a new workforce that provide public health service in people’s own communities. Deadline: November 8.

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HHS Announces New COVID-19 Relief Funds for Providers
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will offer $25.5 billion in new funding for health care providers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The announcement of monies for both the American Rescue Plan and the Provider Relief Fund Phase 4 includes ways that providers can apply.

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American Red Cross Seeks Volunteers
The American Red Cross has put out a call for volunteers, listing its “most-needed volunteer opportunities” in shelters, disaster health services, blood collection support, and disaster action teams. Other opportunities are available, too, even virtual posts. Nurses, nursing students, and those not in the health field are encouraged to apply.

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Focus Group Members Sought for Diversity Effort
Are you a Black or Latinx nursing student or professional? Have you ever been a participant, administrator, mentor, staff, or volunteer in a program to boost diversity in the nursing workforce? The Urban Institute will hold paid focus groups for nursing professionals to understand how to increase the number of Black and Latinx nursing and medical professionals.

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RN: It’s for Reimagining Nursing, Too
Submit your one-of-a-kind innovations to the American Nurses Foundation for the opportunity to bring them to life with funds from its Reimagining Nursing Initiative. Your ideas can bring transformative change to our health care system by supporting nurses, the backbone of the health system. Grants are $500,000 to $1.5 million. Deadline: October 25.

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RWJF Funds Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health
What can we do today to create a better, more equitable tomorrow? The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation invites scientists, anthropologists, artists, urban planners, community leaders and others who have new ideas that could alter the trajectory of health to apply for the Pioneering Ideas grant. No deadline.

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Meetings and Webinars
Meetings open to all unless otherwise noted. Follow links for details about fees and registration.


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2021 Fall Summit Education and Policy Forum

National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists. October 5-6, New Orleans.



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Academy's 2021 Health Policy Conference

American Academy of Nursing. October 7-9, Washington D.C.



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Putting Care at the Center 2021

National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs. October 20-22.



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Achieving Health Equity Through Growth, Innovation, and Reflection

Michigan Center for Nursing. October 22.



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RWJF Health Policy Fellows

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. October 26, 2 p.m. ET.

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NurseHack4Health 2021

Johnson & Johnson, SONSIEL, and Microsoft. November 5-7 (virtual)



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NAHN 46th Annual Conference

National Association of Hispanic Nurses. November 16-19, Puerto Rico.









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