The Tucson Nurses Week Foundation is a non-profit organization established in Arizona in 1994, and committed to educational activities.

• Sharing innovative health care practices
• Humanistic caring of the community
• Celebrating nursing as a learning profession

Through its educational activities during Nurses Week, the Foundation recognizes, publicizes and supports innovations, accomplishments, and contributions of nurses. Each year since 1997, a $2000 Clinical Nursing Practice Project Award has been awarded to continue the growth of professional knowledge. Providing scholarships each year for nursing students to attend the annual conference and to local colleges to support students is now also a part of the annual activities of the Foundation.