Recent Funded Projects
| Title | Description | Amount |
Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Exhibit 2: Rural Health Association of Tennessee (RHAT) Annual Conference | This exhibit takes place at Rural Health Association of Tennessee (RHAT) annual conference, November 2020, Music Road Hotel and Inn, Pigeon Forge, TN 37863. |
Funding Amount: $1762 |
2020 |
| 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 |
| Public Libraries and Health Information Outreach in the Time of COVID-19 | The rise of the COVID-19 pandemic called for individuals to seek out and apply health information at a rapid pace. |
Funding Amount: $16461 |
2020 to 2021 |
| COVID Learning, Engagement & Assistance for all Neighborhoods (CLEAN) Program | The Institute for Community, Youth and Family Services Inc. (The Institute) proposes to provide COVID-19 resources and education to Alabama’s most low-income communities. |
Funding Amount: $18975 |
2020 to 2021 |
| A Virtual Reality Library Space for Health Centered Education and Wellbeing | Virtual Reality (VR) provides a tremendous number of opportunities in education for teachers, researchers, and students. |
Funding Amount: $10458 |
2020 to 2021 |