The nonprofit Cloverlane Foundation has launched the Nurses Project, a program to provide textbooks and other educational resources for nursing students with the initial savings for students of $35,000.

Allan Hancock College is the first school selected to participate in what is intended to become a multi-college program.

The Nurses Project is launching at Hancock with two initial grants. A new book fund will create a textbook loan program for students in the college’s Licensed Vocational Nursing (LVN) program, which will expand to include textbooks for RN students starting in 2026. A second grant will provide funding for an online study and testing program required for the LVN program that students currently must purchase out-of-pocket.

Cloverlane officials said they designed the new

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