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Flo’s Cookie Jar provides hope for community college students

Stressed Out Nurses Weekly, January 14, 2008

Two thousand dollars might not go very far when paying for a semester of college. But it will help pay rent. Or an unexpected car repair bill. Or a child's day care. That's the thinking behind Flo's Cookie Jar (named after Florence Nightingale), a fund created by the Foundation for California Community Colleges that gives one-time grants of up to $2,000 to nursing students experiencing money troubles.

This year, more students will benefit, as $3 million from a recent endowment was funneled into the fund. Donations from nurses, healthcare companies, and hospital associations help to fund the program, which gave out $115,000 in 2007.

For more information about the program, go to the Flo's Cookie Jar Web site.

Source: The Sacramento (CA) Bee

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