Helene Fuld Health Trust Endowed Scholarship

The Helene Fuld Health Trust Endowed Scholarship was established in 2012. The Helene Fuld Health Trust is the largest charitable trust in the United States devoted exclusively to supporting student nurses and nursing education. The trust — which began as a foundation in 1935 but transferred its assets to the trust in 1969 — was established by the children of Helene Fuld, an advocate for education and health care.

The modest investments from Mrs. Fuld’s children in the 1930s have, over time, grown into a trust with assets well over $100 million. Nursing colleges around the country, including the Rush College of Nursing, have benefited from charitable distributions from the trust.