Recent Funded Projects
| Title | Description | Amount |
Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surviving COVID-19, In A Virtual World | “Surviving COVID-19, In A Virtual World”. |
Funding Amount: $16440 |
2021 |
| Miami-Dade Public Library System’s Virtual Nutrition & Food Literacy Program | The Virtual Nutrition and Food Literacy Program will address the health information needs of the communities serviced by the Miami-Dade Public Library System by offering two portable kitchen carts tha |
Funding Amount: $22900 |
2021 |
| Combatting COVID-19 Misinformation with Health Literacy Microcontent | The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately impacting underserved and underrepresented minority communities, highlighting the public health effects of deeply-rooted institutional distrust. |
Funding Amount: $18975 |
2021 |
| The Incredible Edible Sound Garden | This project will be focused on ecological literacy, sensory therapy, and food literacy by enhancing hands-on experience of community members in the outdoor garden spaces located at the Kendale Lakes |
Funding Amount: $22900 |
2021 |
| TORDS-Technology Outreach to Reduce health Disparities and Stigma | Project: TORDS-Technology Outreach to Reduce health Disparities and Stigma is a multi-faceted project designed in 2012. |
Funding Amount: $18975 |
2021 |
| Improve Accessibility of Health Information during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Health Education for Living during the Pandemic – United States (HELP-US) Project | Project Summary: This is a collaborative project between the University of Memphis Community of Researchers, and the Memphis Public Libraries. |
Funding Amount: $17791 |
2021 |
| Virtual Health and Wellness Classes | The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on every aspect of life in the United States and across the world. |
Funding Amount: $24247 |
2021 |
| Covid-19 information outreach for the homeless and people with opioid use disorders: Creating a train-the-trainer program to promote health information to a high risk population | Margaret Zimmerman, an Assistant Professor with the Florida State University’s (FSU’s) School of Information (SI) requests a grant for a Train the Trainer project to be developed and piloted with volu |
Funding Amount: $26746 |
2021 |
| Taking Effective Action (TEA) Healthy Sound Bites | Taking Effective Action, Incorporated (TEA) is applying for the Health Information Outreach Award grant to advance and support equal access to biomedical information and improve individual access to i |
Funding Amount: $24999 |
2021 |
| Informacion para tu Salud en tu Casa | La Casa de Salud (LCS) is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of the Hispanic community by providing health information and resources and by facilitating |
Funding Amount: $22400 |
2021 |
| Using Little Free Libraries to Improve Access to Health Information | In North Carolina, residents of both urban and rural areas live in underserved communities with limited access to medical care and information, healthy food retail, and other resources that make indiv |
Funding Amount: $24866 |
2021 |
| Orlando Health Literacy Ambassador Program | The Orlando Health Literacy Ambassador will include: Train-the-Trainer projects using NLM resources that enhance the skills of public library/organization staff and other consumer health information |
Funding Amount: $19883 |
2021 |
| Providing access to health information documents and promoting health education. | Healthdove Inc. is seeking this funding to expand their health information resources with the objective of increasing health literacy and reducing health disparities. |
Funding Amount: $15000 |
2021 |
| Community Health Literacy Training | For this award of $25,000 P. I. Advocates International, Inc. |
Funding Amount: $25000 |
2021 |
| Citizen Science: Gearing Up for Discovery 20-21 | The HSHSL proposes a course to build skills in people to become effective citizen scientists. |
Funding Amount: $39074 |
2021 |
| TEACH Across Alabama: Training, Educating, Advising, Connecting, and Helping Alabama’s Healthcare Workforce and Healthcare Consumers Navigate the COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Global Pandemic | The COVID pandemic has highlighted the need for the long-overdue dissemination of appropriate, timely, and accurate information to the general public. |
Funding Amount: $11593 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Health and Science Literacy Programs and Resources for the Rural Communities of Charles City and New Kent Served by Heritage Public Library | Heritage Public Library will improve public health by providing health and science programs and resources to improve individuals’ access to health and science information. |
Funding Amount: $22900 |
2020 to 2021 |
| The Superwoman Project - North Carolina | “The Superwoman Project” is Black Girl Health Foundation’s (BGHF) newest programming and has been developed to provide support to moms in every aspect of their lives, including: new motherhood, child |
Funding Amount: $18975 |
2020 to 2021 |
| CHIME: COVID-19 Health Informatics Module Development and Implementation Through Library | This project seeks to establish a multi-disciplinary effort dedicated to the practice of Health Informatics through the COVID-19 pandemic time, by development and implementation of current health deli |
Funding Amount: $18974 |
2020 to 2021 |
| WVSOM Healthy Behavior Outreach Program | According to the West Virginia Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, West Virginia ranked 1st in the nation, for the prevalence of poor physical health, poor mental health, and activity limitati |
Funding Amount: $15000 |
2020 to 2021 |