We wanted to take this opportunity to show you what a difference your donations to the A.C.N.M. Foundation make to the hundreds of Certified Nurse Midwives/Nurse Midwives we have supported over the years, and the countless women, infants and families whose lives they have enriched.
"The A.C.N.M. Foundation's Midwives of Color-Watson Scholarship
helped to offset expenses incurred for doing Integration in Hargeisa, Somaliland. This was such a priceless experience, and it was financially feasible thanks to the A.C.N.M. Foundation. I had the opportunity to provide midwifery care to women with infibulation. I also had the privilege of observing a few vesico-vaginal fistula repairs while visiting a newly built fistula hospital."
- Kerry-Ann DaCosta
"Receiving the A.C.N.M. Foundation Graduate Fellowship was stunning for me. Suddenly I perceived myself, and my potential to contribute through my research, differently because others 'believed' in me. I consider it a pivotal moment in my career that laid a foundation for me to be successful in future endeavors, including becoming Fulbright Scholar to study normal birth strategies in the UK. Thank you all for being there!"
- Holly Powell Kennedy, PhD, CNM, FACNM
"I want to send my heart felt thanks to the A.C.N.M. Foundation for helping to make my nurse-midwifery education a reality! It seems like a super human challenge sometimes, ...to be a good working wife and mother, and a full-time graduation student too, but by God's grace, I get by with a little help from my friends! Thanks to everyone there for helping me make it through the financial challenges of graduate education with the Basic Midwifery Scholarship."
- Katie Bussard, RN, SNM
"The A.C.N.M. Foundation Edith B. Wonnell Scholarship made it possible for me to spend my midwifery Integration near the Texas-Mexico border at Holy Family Birth Center. I feel fortunate that I was able to spend a semester of midwifery school in a birth center setting and I believe that my experiences there will always shape my midwifery practice.
- Jenifer Poell
"I received an ACNM Foundation scholarship to attend a leadership seminar in New Mexico a few years back... I learned a lot at that meeting, and have gone on to direct a midwifery service, serve as a chapter chair, and now hold a position at ACNM!
- M. Christina Johnson, CNM, MS
"I look back on the essay I wrote in my application for the foundation, and I am amazed by what has evolved from the support of the A.C.N.M. Foundation. I am working on a research project funded by the NINR, using community-based participatory research in the Dominican Republic, to bring maternity nurses and community leaders to hear the voice of community about their experience of care in the public system. Although the Dominican Republic does not have the profession of midwifery, we are working to put the elements of the midwifery model of care into place. Listening to women, evidence based practice, and case management and team skills to keep women at the center of care is all part of the model." This is not at all what my dissertation was about, but the development of my skills as an anthropologist along with the midwifery perspective has led me to work with Dr. Lynn Sibley, a fellow midwife and anthropologist, here at the Center for Maternal-Newborn Survival at Emory University’s School of Nursing."
- Jenny Foster, CNM, PhD
"The foundation award [helped support] driving around the country interviewing the participants for my research, and paying someone to transcribe some of my interviews. I'm closing in on getting the dissertation done. The data analysis has been eye opening, and I can't wait to present my findings, and giving the Foundation the credit for helping me get this done!"
- Gretchen G. Mettler, PhD(c), CNM
Keep checking back for additions to this page. And if you have an A.C.N.M. Foundation "success story" that would like to share, please email Susan Berkun, Foundation Director, at sberkun@acnm.org!
