Grants

New Jersey Nursing Initiative: So a Nurse Will Be There for You

To address the New Jersey nurse faculty shortage by developing, implementing, and evaluating a statewide model for recruitment and retention of nurse faculty.

National Program

New Jersey Chamber of Commerce Foundation

216 West State Street
Trenton, NJ, 08608-1002

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Susan Bakewell-Sachs
Program Director

609-771-3032
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Jennifer Polakowski
Deputy Director

609-789-5260
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RWJF Staff

Maryjoan D. Ladden

Program Officer

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Linda Wright Moore

Communications Officer

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Recent Grants

$599,976.00 awarded to Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. - Process evaluation of RWJF's New Jersey Nursing Initiative: Nurse Will Be There for You program
$49,334.00 awarded to TSI Consulting Partners, Inc. - Facilitating strategic planning for the statewide collaborative on nursing education in New Jersey
$25,000.00 awarded to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Newark - Support for a conference of health care stakeholders to collaborate for change leading to an increase in the number of baccalaureate-prepared nurses
$1,061,706.00 awarded to New Jersey Chamber of Commerce Foundation - Technical assistance and direction for RWJF's New Jersey Nursing Initiative program
$32,940.00 awarded to Diane M. Billings, EdD, RN, FAAN - Development, implementation and management of the New Jersey Nursing Initiative's Collaborative Learning Community, 2008-2009

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