Recent Funded Projects
| Title | Description | Amount | Dates |
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| MAC/MLA 2020 Annual Conference | The MAC/MLA 2020 Annual Conference will bring together members of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library association for a virtual meeting. |
Funding Amount: $5000 |
2020 |
| Playtime Yoga Time | The Playtime Yoga Time program will be presented weekly from September 2020 through April 2021 (less three holiday weeks) and will be aimed toward children ages 3-8 (though appropriate for any age). |
Funding Amount: $4201 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Connect for your health | Connect for your health is a partnership between Hershey Public Library and the Penn State Health Milton S. |
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2020 to 2021 |
| Mental Health Resources in Oil Creek District | The Oil Creek Library District will be providing a digital repository of mental health resources for the fourteen library outlets in our District (Clarion, Jefferson, and Venango counties in PA). |
Funding Amount: $16500 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Promoting Mammograms for LGBT Community Members in Pennsylvania Through Public Library Outreach | Surveys consistently show that rates of mammography are significantly lower among lesbian and bisexual people than their heterosexual counterparts, according to the National LGBT Cancer Network. |
Funding Amount: $20000 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Increasing Health Literacy in Low-Income Communities through Community Doula Services | The AMAR Community-Based Doula Program is a program of The Children’s Home Society of New Jersey in Trenton, New Jersey. |
Funding Amount: $19915 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Introducing Health Sciences Librarianship | The project will provide an opportunity for a cohort of participants in the NNLM MAR region to develop a broader awareness of health sciences librarianship. |
Funding Amount: $6750 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Building Health Data Literacy Through Public Libraries | This project will enable libraries to help build their community’s health data literacy. |
Funding Amount: $20000 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Health Career Exploration K-8 | “Health Career Exploration – K-8” is a series of short sub-curriculum activities designed to help students gain valuable new insights about health and healthcare, and health careers, while having fun. |
Funding Amount: $19165 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Green Thumbs In Your Community | Black Girls with Green Thumbs promotes health literacy in a way that is culturally competent and accessible, meeting community members where they are, online and within their neighborhoods, and inviti |
Funding Amount: $19728 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Health Information Partnerships for Brooklyn | Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) will develop and implement a year-long project of expert-led health information programs targeted to vulnerable populations with identified health challenges. |
Funding Amount: $20000 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Dental Health Access for Vulnerable Immigrants | The Health Access Program at Nationalities Service Center assists vulnerable refugee and immigrant clients to gain crucial knowledge for their health and to access needed healthcare services. |
Funding Amount: $17837 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Mental Health and Well-Being Resources in North Country Libraries | The Mental Health and Well-Being Resources project is designed to increase health literacy and mental health awareness in the North Country Library System, a mostly rural geographic area that consists |
Funding Amount: $6647 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Open Educational Resources for Allied Health Professions and Health Sciences | The proposed project is intended to support the sustainable creation, adaptation, and use of Open Educational Resources (OER) in allied health professions and health sciences fields at large. |
Funding Amount: $18242 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Valley Mental Health First Aid Responders | This project will provide Shenango Valley residents with the resources and instruction necessary to become mental health first aid responders. |
Funding Amount: $4565 |
2020 to 2021 |
| From Snake Oil to Social Media: Pharmaceutical Advertising and Medication Literacy for Health Care Consumers | Direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) for prescription drugs has been an ongoing, contentious issue in the United States. Despite oversight from the U.S. |
Funding Amount: $17063 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Clearing the Air: Educating the Camden Community about Air Quality and Respiratory Health | The purpose of this project is to provide the people of Camden, New Jersey with environmental health information that will help them understand the links between the air quality in their community and |
Funding Amount: $19999 |
2020 to 2021 |
| BGH Connect | Black Girl Health Foundation’s “BGH Connect” is a digital campaign that includes upgrading the Black Girl Health (BGH) Membership Portal to include new content, and a social media marketing campaign d |
Funding Amount: $19992 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Community Outreach on Respiratory Hazards and Illnesses in Southwestern Pennsylvania | According to the American Lung Association's 2019 "State of the Air" report, Pittsburgh’s air quality was ranked the 7th worst in the country. |
Funding Amount: $19999 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Expanding Knowledge and Awareness for Hepatitis B and Liver Cancer for Underserved Communities in Greater Philadelphia | Hepatitis B is an infection that can be acute (short-term) or chronic (lifelong) that is often not reported or identified. |
Funding Amount: $19979 |
2020 to 2021 |