Recent Funded Projects
| Title | Description | Amount |
Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Chapter MLA 20 Annual Conference | To enable the Southern Chapter/MLA to support and host two well-known keynote speakers and several continuing education courses during the annual meeting in Montgomery, AL, Oct. 22-24, 2020. |
Funding Amount: $5000 |
2020 |
| Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association | The Professional Development Committee of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association (MAC-MLA) will be coordinating and offering three continuing education courses that will be held a |
Funding Amount: $1500 |
2020 |
| Radical Self-Care and Wellness for Information Professionals | Audre Lorde states, “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence; it is self-preservation and that is an act of political warfare”.1 For librarians of color, the stresses of working and existing in the p |
Funding Amount: $10000 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Exhibit 3: Tennessee Public Health Association (TPHA) Conference | This project is an exhibit of informational resources from NLM and other authoritative resources from government, professional associations, and trusted non-profits. |
Funding Amount: $1500 |
2020 |
| Mobile Hotspots for stable Internet access (Pilot) | In the age of COVID-19, many PCOM students have had sudden lifestyle adjustments. |
Funding Amount: $15000 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Improving Health Literacy Awareness with Mobile Technology | The Fraser Resource Center and Health Sciences Library project plan is to use mobile technology to bring health literacy awareness to the community of Hall County. |
Funding Amount: $11200 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Healthy and Digital Literacy Train the Trainer Program | This project will enhance Miami-Dade Public Library System’s (MDPLS) ability to provide health literacy information and reference services to the public through the expansion of staff health literacy |
Funding Amount: $19000 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Promoting Health Through Digital Literacy | The goal of the Clayton County Library System Health Literacy Initiative is to teach library patrons (particularly minority and underserved populations in our community) how to search for and evaluate |
Funding Amount: $19000 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Health Information and Career Awareness Program | Southern Alabama Area Health Education Center (SAAHEC) strives to grow the next generation of medical professionals to serve the people of Alabama, train health profession students and provide health |
Funding Amount: $14587 |
2020 to 2021 |
| All of Us In Memphis: Health Outreach with the Connect Crew | Memphis Public Libraries’ six-person outreach team, the Connect Crew, was launched in January 2019. |
Funding Amount: $15000 |
2020 to 2021 |
| BE WELL at NPL: Advancing Health Literacy in Nashville 2020-2021 | BE WELL at NPL advances health literacy in the Nashville/Davidson County community by providing access and outreach to free wellness programs and health resources through the trusted space of the Nash |
Funding Amount: $15000 |
2020 to 2021 |
| BGH Minds Matter D.C. | Black Girl Health Foundation’s “Minds Matter D.C.” is a program in partnership with the Washington, D.C. |
Funding Amount: $14979 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Exhibit 1: 5th Annual Summer Youth Camp | The Annual Youth Summer Camp Interactive Health Information Program Presentation is designed to be an interactive and engaging presentation for youth ages 6-17 that will help them in accessing health |
Funding Amount: $1600 |
2020 |
| RAM Educational Outreach | Remote Area Medical® – RAM is a major nonprofit provider of pop-up clinics with a mission to prevent pain and alleviate suffering by providing free, quality healthcare to those in need. |
Funding Amount: $15000 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Building FAIR Habits: Pilot FAIR Data Workshop for Data Novices | This is a train-the-trainer project on FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data basics for data novices. |
Funding Amount: $3256 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Building FAIR Habits: Pilot FAIR Data Workshop for Data Novices | This is a train-the-trainer project on FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data basics for data novices. |
Funding Amount: $7341 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Building FAIR Habits: Pilot FAIR Data Workshop for Data Novices | This is a train-the-trainer project on FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data basics for data novices. |
Funding Amount: $7390 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Outreach 10: SC Read Eat Grow In Your Community | Building on two successful years of food literacy programs in partnership with public libraries and other community organizations statewide, the South Carolina State Library would like to expand outre |
Funding Amount: $15000 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Library Project 7: Virtual Book Discussion Group | The purpose of this project is to sponsor a virtual book discussion group building on the success of two prior discussions held in 2019 and 2020 respectively. |
Funding Amount: $5000 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Library Project 13: SC Health Literacy Initiatives | MUSC Libraries will coordinate and host the first Health Literacy Summit in the SouthEast Region. |
Funding Amount: $15000 |
2020 to 2021 |