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Flo's Cookie Jar provides emergency grants-in-aid to pre-licensure
RN students facing a one-time need that otherwise
would force them to leave school. Flo's fosters a diverse RN
workforce that will look like the communities it serves.
Student nurses tell compelling stories, like these, of need
and perseverance:
Nakia and her husband had planned
carefully for the cost of school, but in her third semester
the plans went awry. In one month, her husband lost his job
and their landlord raised the rent. Her husband found another
job but by then they were behind, and every month the gap got
bigger. $2000 from Flo's Cookie Jar closed the gap, and Nakia
didn't have to worry about that debt when she started her last
semester.
Doug parked at the wrong place at
the wrong time. The wildfire destroyed his car –and with
it his textbooks and all his other nursing school supplies.
The minimum insurance policy didn't cover the losses, and Doug
was suddenly unable to get to class and unable to replace those
essential supplies.. $2000 from Flo's Cookie Jar helped him
get back on his feet.
Celina, a mother at 14 who worked
in migrant health care outreach before entering a college nursing
program.
Residing with her family in the living room of a relative, she
needs a relatively small amount of money to make first-year
school expenses. (A typical “starter kit” of basic
equipment and uniforms is about $1,100.)
Their needs are small and unexpected - bill... textbooks...
and uniforms…car repairs… ironically, a health
issue.
We are all patients - past, present and future. We all
face a perilous future -- without sufficient RNs, we cannot
get safe or sufficient care.
(Please see our Why We Do
It page for more information on this RN crisis.)
Developed by a group of experienced nurse leaders and educators,
Flo's Cookie Jar is uniquely structured to provide
two types of emergency grants-in-aid, not to exceed $2,000:
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For personal and educational emergencies that would cause the
student to leave school.
- For a starter kit of RN education supplies
which the student could not otherwise afford.
Housed at the California Nursing Students’ Association
(CNSA) Foundation, Flo’s Cookie Jar is a collaborative
venture of the Association of California Nurse Leaders (ACNL),
the Foundation for California Community Colleges (FCCC), the
California Institute for Nursing and Health Care (CINHC), and
the deans and directors of college nursing programs.
Co-founders and directors of Flo's Cookie Jar are Patricia McFarland,
MSN, RN, CEO of ACNL and Executive Officer of CNSA, and Kristine
Yahn, MBA, RN, Health Care Program Director at FCCC. Jessica
Jimenez and Cathy Novaresi of ACNL and Mary Beth Pilon of FCCC
support the program.
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