Education United States Project #45314

Claudia Booker Memorial Midwife Scholarship

by Mercy In Action Vineyard, INC

Project Report | Mar 5, 2025
Recent Scholarship Awarded to Bebe

By Jenny Fox | Project Assistant

Bebe

Dear Friends,

Thank you for your faithful, consistent support that allows us to provide the Mercy In Action College of Midwifery Claudia Booker Memorial Midwife Scholarship to a large number of deserving student midwives!

At Claudia Booker’s request before her death, full scholarships to our Mercy In Action College of Midwifery Bachelor of Science four-year degree are to be granted to Black/Indigenous students who have shown serious commitment to midwifery by having successfully completed the first two years with a minimum 3.0 GPA, have a signed contract for a clinical apprenticeship with an approved clinical preceptor, and have been attending mentoring meetings with our Scholarship Coordinator and Mentor during the first two years of the program.

This academic year, we are delighted to provide this scholarship for Bebe, a strong student who has succeeded in the first two years of our program even while being pregnant and having a baby! Bebe is committed to excellent midwifery and has qualified for our Advanced Track of study, which means she is taking a double course load to graduate around the end of this year or early next year.

Your faithful gifts allow students like Bebe to give full attention to their studies while in midwifery college full-time. We believe Bebe will be a midwife who positively changes the trajectory of maternal and infant health in her community, providing the known benefits of midwifery care to people in need.

Investing in the midwives of the future is a worthwhile endeavor! Thank you for your generosity!

Kindly,

Jenny,

For The Mercy In Action College of Midwifery team

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Nov 11, 2024
More Scholarships given for CPM Candidates

By Vicki Penwell | Executive Director

Keyana was awarded our NARM Prep scholarship

Dear Supporters of Mercy In Action's Claudia Booker Memorial Midwife Scholarship,

Besides supporting Mercy In Action College of Midwifery students with full scholarships for their final two years of midwifery school, this project also supports midwives who are taking their final step into becoming Certified Professional Midwives (CPM) by granting them a scholarship to our Mercy In Action Online NARM Study Course, a valuable course that preps midwife students for their board exams.

Our scholarships were created to be strategic in saving lives in pregnancy and childbirth. To qualify for a Mercy In Action Claudia Booker Memorial Midwife Scholarship, the applicant must be a midwife student from one of the demographic communities that loses the most babies and mothers at birth in America - the Black/African American and Native American/Alaska Native populations. Claudia helped create our scholarship program and framework, which was named after her when she passed away in 2020.

In 2024, so far, Mercy In Action College of Midwifery has awarded 15 Online NARM Study Course scholarships. They are valued at $499 per course, and they make a big impact on those who receive them. CPM candidates report that this online course, designed to be individually tailored to each learner, gave them new knowledge and real confidence to take the North American Registry of Midwives (NARM) exam and pass it the first time!

In this report, we want to feature four hopeful CPM candidates who were awarded this scholarship. Keyana, Nikkea, SciHonor, and Divine have all been given the best chance to pass their midwifery board exam thanks to your generosity in supporting this project.

Please tell your friends about this great scholarship project in honor of the late Claudia Booker, who was a friend and inspiration to many. Mercy In Action is still paying for the majority of our scholarships from our own operating budget, and we could use many more donors to this GlobalGiving project to help more deserving midwifery students in the future. Let us hear from you soon!

Blessings,

The Mercy In Action College of Midwifery team

Congratulations Nikkia for being awarded NARM Prep

SciHonor awarded Claudia Booker Scholarship too!

Divine, congratulations on NARM Prep Online Course

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Jul 22, 2024
Featuring Tierra

By Jenny Fox | Project Assistant

Tierra

Because of your generous support of Mercy In Action's Claudia Booker Memorial Midwife Scholarship Fund, we are delighted to tell you about Tierra, a worthy recipient of this scholarship, who successfully earned her Bachelor of Science in Midwifery degree as a graduate of our program in May 2024. Tierra has also passed the NARM exam so she is now a Certified Professional Midwife, starting her professional career as a midwife!

Tierra entered our program with enthusiasm and vision to be an excellent midwife, especially ready to serve families of color. She was the kind of student who was full of curiosity and determined to succeed in learning academics and clinical skills. She sacrificed her comfort to travel to have the best training she could find and persevered through hardships, always keeping her eyes fixed on the goal of becoming a CPM. During the pandemic in 2021, Tierra temporarily placed her apprenticeship on hold while she had her own second baby, helped by Vicki and another local midwife in the Boise area to have a home birth. It was a joy to support her in this very personal way!

We are proud that Tierra graduated from our program because we believe she is and will continue to be a powerful agent of change for the good in maternity care. Your generosity makes it possible for us to provide the Claudia Booker Scholarship to future midwives like Tierra who will improve outcomes for the mothers, babies, and families who are most at risk.

Thank you for your continued support of the Claudia Booker Memorial Scholarship Fund. Your donations make it possible to increase access to midwifery education access the populations who are suffering the highest rates of maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity around childbirth in America-- African American/Black and American Indian and Alaska Natives.

Thank you for giving!

Pandemic Pregnancy

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