Recent Funded Projects
Title | Description | Amount | Dates |
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Help With Managing COVID-19 Related Stress | For the proposed project, the North Haven Memorial Library (NHML), working with North Haven's Long Term Recovery Planning Committee and local health and wellness agencies, will promote health lit |
Funding Amount: $8782 |
2020 to 2021 |
Peer Leadership Preventing Violence in Greater Boston | Health Resources in Action (HRiA) seeks funding to support violence prevention in Greater Boston through youth peer leadership. |
Funding Amount: $20505 |
2020 to 2021 |
Vaccine Equity Program | The Massachusetts Health Council (MHC) is launching a statewide vaccine education and equity program to inform communities of color about the history, safety, and efficacy of vaccines. |
Funding Amount: $19500 |
2020 to 2021 |
Vaccine Education Program | MHC is a health advocacy organization founded one hundred years ago in response to the deadly tuberculosis epidemic. |
Funding Amount: $19500 |
2020 to 2021 |
State-of-the-Art Education to Support Massachusetts Clinicians Caring for Patients with Chronic Pain and Substance Use Disorders | Aim 1: Provide ongoing educational activities on a range of topics that include CP and SUDs by supporting access to biomedical and health information through knowledge and data management services. |
Funding Amount: $10000 |
2020 to 2021 |
Washington County, Maine: Healthy Acadia NNLM Outreach and Community Engagement Project 2020-2021 | Through the proposed project, Healthy Acadia will work across Washington County, Maine to plan and conduct community engagement activities, centered on increasing access to and awareness of National |
Funding Amount: $10000 |
2020 to 2021 |
Hancock County, Maine: Healthy Acadia NNLM Outreach and Community Engagement Project - 2020-2021 | Through the proposed project, Healthy Acadia will work across Hancock County, Maine to plan and conduct community engagement activities, centered on increasing access to and awareness of National Li |
Funding Amount: $10000 |
2020 to 2021 |
Digital Graphic Medicine Catalog: Comics and Graphic Novels Electronically Available for Healthcare | The publication of comic books and graphic novels pertinent to healthcare and medicine has soared over the past decade, yet these instances of what is termed Graphic Medicine (GM) remain too limited |
Funding Amount: $7000 |
2020 to 2021 |
Graphic Medicine Liaison Program Development | While need for easily accessible entry-points to graphic medicine for all of our stakeholders has long been recognized, work toward the proposed liaison project began in earnest during the 2018 Graphi |
Funding Amount: $8000 |
2020 to 2021 |
The Southern CT State University-MultiCultural Health Leaders: Educating older adults on improving their health through health literacy and Salsa and Cha-Cha'ing their way to decreasing the risk of dementia | The Southern CT State University- MultiCultural Health Leaders (MCHL), an established university student organization composed of public health and nursing students, requests $10,000 from the National |
Funding Amount: $10000 |
2020 to 2021 |
Educating Healthcare Professionals and the Sighted Community of Worcester County on the Health Disparities among VIPs 2020-2021 | This project will engage medical professionals in various specialties, improving their health literacy and reducing health disparity for individuals who are blind or who suffer with low vision (VIPs). |
Funding Amount: $10000 |
2020 to 2021 |
Health and Wellness Information Station | The primary goal of this project is to assist in the delivery of improved and discrete health information to the residents of Martha’s Vineyard. The project will provide funding to purchase a comput |
Funding Amount: $7000 |
2020 to 2021 |
“Opening Doors To The Outdoors” 2020-2021 | The Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor, (BHC) known for its rich history, has opened its borders to visitors previously unable to share in adventures. |
Funding Amount: $9960 |
2020 to 2021 |
The New England Minority Nursing Collaborative: Promoting Access to Health Information. | Through an established network of seven New England chapters of the National Black Nurses Association, Inc. |
Funding Amount: $10000 |
2020 to 2021 |
Enhancing Health Information Access After Hours in a Hospital Setting | The aim of this project is to enhance access to health information for users of the Matthews-Fuller Library Health Sciences Library (MFHSL) at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) when the inform |
Funding Amount: $1900 |
2020 to 2021 |
Reaching Beyond: Expand Outbreak! 2020 to new online audiences | The current global pandemic has pushed the Public Health Museum (PHM) to retool delivery of its successful week-long "Outbreak!" high school summer program into a virtual classroom experienc |
Funding Amount: $10000 |
2020 to 2021 |
Learning Your Way to a Healthy Brain | The Rhode Island College Foundation is facilitating the collaboration of the James P. |
Funding Amount: $10000 |
2020 to 2021 |
Virtual Health Education Tour 2020-2021 | HAMA will be conducting its 3rd Health Education Tour from August 2020 – October 2020. |
Funding Amount: $7800 |
2020 to 2021 |
Supporting a Healthy Community Head to Toe: Food for Health 2020-2021 | To provide a safe and fun environment for children and adults, individuals and families to learn about healthy options for food and cooking. |
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2020 to 2021 |
Helping Seniors Take Health Decisions into Their Own Hands | Health information can change quickly. In an underfunded public library, this translates into out of date resources that can misinform consumers. |
Funding Amount: $7000 |
2020 to 2021 |