This page includes awards made during the current NNLM award period (May 1, 2021 - April 30, 2026).
For awards made during the previous NNLM award period (May 1, 2016 - April 30, 2021) please visit Past Funded Projects.
To browse our open funding opportunities please visit Funding Opportunities.
| Project Title | Lead Organization | Project Summary | Project Start Date | Project End Date | State |
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| Collection Equity Award | Nevins Memorial Library | Here are some steps to consider: Identify, select, and acquire materials in a variety of genres such as graphic medicine, fiction, and memoirs in Spanish. Use relationships with local organizations, such as health clinics and community centers that help to promote the library's collection and services. Promote the library's collection and services through outreach to the Latino community using, among others, social media, local newspapers, and community events to… | |||
| Collection Equity Award | Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Public Health Library | The collection Equity Award will be used to purchase books, hardcopy and e-books to update the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LAC-DPH) Library collection that has not been done in over 7 years. The goal is to ensure programs and community organization events that are facilitated by DPH are reflective of voices of the communities served; thus, illuminating health issues that are prevalent and unique to underserved populations throughout Los Angeles County. | |||
| Collection Equity Award | Alice M. Ward Memorial Library | We are building a collection for our young famiies in the area for Maternal Health and Early Family Health. We have slim pickings in our collection for topics like pregnancy, nutrition, literacy, breastfeeding, postpartum issues, child rearing, early childhood markers, neurodiversity, mental health, addiction, trauma and other related topics. What we do have in our collection is outdated. I would like this collection to be housed with the children's picture books as a genre- so parents can browse them instead of having come through many different Dewey Decimel numbers to those… | |||
| Collection Equity Award | Peabody Memorial Library | Purchase new books so that our patrons of all ages will have access to reliable and current biomedical, health, and public health information and data. | |||
| Collection Equity Award | Hadley Parrot Health Science Library | The Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center, Hadley Parrot Library’s current consumer health collection lacks health information relevant to today’s diverse and underrepresented populations. Page 2 of 4 The 2022 Maine Shared Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) identified culturally competent care and health literacy among the top concerns expressed by Maine’s Black and LGBTQ+ communities. Other needs identified in the CHNA include the need for resources to address mental health, suicide prevention, and substance and alcohol use. Additionally, due to the library’s location… |