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Your Donations Make a Difference

Donations to AACN support excellence in nursing. They help AACN members improve their practice through professional development and lifelong learning. They fund learning opportunities in and beyond traditional academic nursing education and help members pursue specialized development through programs focused on health policy/advocacy, evidence-based practice, nurse leadership and more.

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Enabling Nurses to Succeed

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A Varied Career

Oct 28, 2025

Meet Emily Colyer. Emily, who received an AACN scholarship to attend NTI for the first time, tells us about her job and her experience at NTI, and expresses gratitude for your donations that enabled her to attend NTI.

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Like Being at the Grammys

Oct 28, 2025

Jill Herrig says that attending the National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition (NTI) on an AACN scholarship was like being a “rock star.”

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Giving Options

Making a donation to AACN supports acute and critical care nurses at every step of their careers. Support the area that inspires you most.

Research
Evidence-Based Research Fund supports grants that enable clinically relevant, evidence-based research to create the resources that influence high-acuity and critical care nursing practice.
Education
Scholarship Endowment enables high-acuity and critical care nurses to continue their academic journey or hone knowledge and skills in areas such as communication, collaboration, leadership and governance.
Leadership
Sharon Connor Fund for Leadership Development provides leadership development to advance the AACN mission.
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Recognition
Nurse Well-Being and Recognition Fund supports initiatives that recognize nurses and those who support their work to build awareness of who nurses are, what they do and what their contributions are to the healthcare system.
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Sustainability
Unrestricted Fund helps support daily operations that further our mission to serve acute and critical care nurses. Unrestricted funds support our vital work in areas such as advocacy, Healthy Work Environment and AACN standards, Beacon Award for Excellence and the CSI Academy.

I choose to support AACN to give back to the nursing community. It’s an important community that I’m in, and I believe that it just kind of reaffirms my commitment and dedication to the nursing profession.

Diana Manuel

Planned Giving

Bequests are one of the ways that the AACN community help to strengthen the long-term viability of our organization. A bequest by will or revocable trust supports AACN while complementing your personal lifestyle and financial goals.
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Your Donations Make a Difference

Every gift you make creates a connection with nurses and invests in their future. Your generosity encourages the exceptional nurses of our AACN community to take the next step to enrich their careers.
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The U.S. Internal Revenue Service designates AACN as a 501(c)(3) charitable, tax-exempt, nonprofit organization. Gifts to AACN are tax deductible to the maximum extent allowed by law.