Updates



Thank you to all of our 2023–2024 donors

Your contributions to the Foundation are what exclusively fund essential grants and scholarships. You helped make the following possible in fiscal year 2024 (ending 30 June 2024):

  • 30 nurse leaders, representing 14 countries and all global regions, received assistance to attend Sigma events.
  • 382 Sigma inductees, representing 6 countries and 5 global regions, received membership subsidies.
  • UN Liaisons and Youth Representatives participated in invaluable activities that further Sigma’s mission to develop nurse leaders anywhere to improve healthcare everywhere.
  • 35 research studies, representing 8 countries and 5 global regions, received funding.

Visit the 2023-2024 annual donors list. Review the fiscal year 2024 financial report.



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Represent

At the heart of Represent, the 2023–2025 Organizational Call to Action, lies a compelling framework built on three pillars: Reflect, Respect, and Respond.

The call to respond is a direct challenge to take meaningful action in two critical areas: ensure the sustainability and growth of our organization by responding to the financial barriers that prevent new inductees from joining Sigma and to the evolving demands of our profession by championing nursing research, which forms the foundation of evidence-based practice and drives innovation in patient care. Through generous contributions to the leadership fund, we can provide membership subsidies that open doors for the next generation of nursing leaders. Gifts to the research fund provide grants for nurses worldwide.

Did you know?

Make two or more donations in the biennium to be celebrated in Sandra Bibb’s President’s Circle.




New scholarship and grant to be awarded in 2025

Thanks to permanent fund donations made by Dr. Ken Dion and Dr. Dorothy Brooten to the Foundation three years ago, applications will open for a new scholarship and research grant in early 2025.

The Dion Family Fund Scholarship will be available in January for baccalaureate-prepared nurses enrolled in an accredited program pursuing an advanced degree in nursing informatics or gerontological nursing. Funding is up to US $5,000 annually.

The Dr. Dorothy Brooten Transitional Care Research Grant advances evidence-based transitional care in clinical settings and the dissemination of its impact.

Check the scholarships and grants webpages in January 2025 for details and to apply. The Foundation thanks Dr. Dion and Dr. Brooten for making donations to establish these permanent funds to help meet the demand for nursing scholarships and research grants.

Interested in donating to establish a permanent fund at Sigma Foundation for Nursing?

Contact Lynn Lambuth at lynn@sigmanursing.org.


Recently funded research grants

Pedro Gonzalez Angulo 

We are excited to share that seven research grants received their first round of funding this month, including the inaugural recipient of the Sigma Foundation for Nursing Latin America/Caribbean Nursing Research Grant, made possible by an anonymous donor. Pedro Gonzalez Angulo’s research aims to identify the relationship between attitudes towards gender violence, HIV risk perception, and alcohol consumption among migrants in transit along the southern border of Mexico through a quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional, correlational, and predictive study. Learn more about the other grants funded this month.

From soul to sole

Anne Joubert 

Research grants empower nurses from every global region to advance nursing science. These grants are awarded annually and cover a variety of topics. In 2020, Anné Joubert received a Sigma small grant, which aims to encourage nurses to contribute to the advancement of nursing through research. Made possible through contributions to the Sigma Foundation for Nursing’s research fund, Anné’s focus was to identify how registered nurses could achieve person-centered caring to improve diabetic foot care compliance in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Read more about Anne’s journey on Nursing Centered.


Investing in others

Sheryl Garriques-Lloyd, Foundation donor and recipient of the 2021 Dorothy Ford Buschmann Outstanding New Member Award, witnessed a fellow caregiver succumb to the very issues she worked to treat as a psychiatric nurse. She shared her wake-up call and response in an episode of Sigma's podcast, A Nurse First. Listen to the episode here. 

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