"Nursing on the Move": ANA Relocation to New Facility Culminates Successful Fundraising Campaign

Alabama Nurse,  Sep-Nov 2003  

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WASHINGTON, DC - An ambitious campaign to invest in the future of nursing by raising funds for a new American Nurses Association (ANA) office headquarters is finally coming to fruition with the association's planned move to a newly constructed facility in Silver Spring, MD, the ANA has announced. The Nursing on the Move campaign, initiated in 1990, raised over $1 million toward the purchase of a building for ANA. The money, which has been held in a trust fund, will be used toward the purchase of a building in which ANA will hold ownership interest.

The new facility, which is currently under construction at 8515 Georgia Avenue, is part of a 1.2 million square-foot, public-private redevelopment plan for downtown Silver Spring. ANA staffers expect to move into the building in August 2004.

"We would like to thank all the individual nurses, constituent member associations (CMAs), nursing organizations, corporations, foundations and others concerned about the future of quality health care who made generous donations to this campaign, and who made the equity-interest investment in this new building possible," said William L. Holzerner, PhD, RN, FAAN, president of the American Nurses Foundation (ANF), the philanthropic arm of the association, which helped raise the funding for the move. "The $1 million in funds generated will go a long way toward helping ANA secure a home in which to carry on its important work on behalf of nurses and the nursing profession."

ANA President Barbara Blakeney, MS, APRN,BC, ANP, concurred, noting that "these generous donations have helped ensure ANA is an equity investor in the building, bringing it one step closer to achieving the original goals of Nursing on the Move," which included consolidating ANA's operations in one headquarters location in the national capital region and eventually having ownership in its building.

The 1990-1992 Nursing on the Move campaign initially succeeded in raising funds to support ANA's relocation of its headquarters from Kansas City, MO, to Washington, D.C., in 1992. The remainder has been held by ANF in a trust fund for the ANA pending the move to the new facility.

Contributions to Nursing on the Move have been acknowledged in many ways. For example, persons or organizations who gave $100 or more have been listed in a leather-bound directory displayed in ANA's reception area. Contributors at higher levels have been named to Distinguished Donor Clubs, including the President's Club for donors of $10,000 or more, whose members were invited to a Capitol Hill briefing with members of Congress and key congressional staff to discuss health care issues, among other honors. Members of the various Distinguished Donors Clubs also received permanent and prominent recognition on the Benefactors' Wall in the headquarters.

The ANA is the only full-service professional organization representing the nation's 2.7 million Registered Nurses through its constituent member nurses associations. The ANA advances the nursing profession by fostering high standards of nursing practice, promoting the rights of nurses in the workplace, projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing, and by lobbying the Congress and regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting nurses and the public.

ANF, founded in 1955, complements the work of ANA, the largest nursing organization in America, by raising funds and developing and managing grants to support advances in research, education and clinical practice. Since its inception, the foundation has worked to enhance consumers' health by supporting projects that strengthen the nursing profession. ANF accomplishes its mission through three major functions: nursing research grants, extramural projects/ grants and fund-raising.

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