Recent Funded Projects
Title |
Description | Amount | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| From the Public to Professionals: Health Information as a Bridge to Wellness | Building Bridges to Wellness spans gaps between the community and health information. |
Funding Amount: $19999 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Partner Outreach 2018-2021: Southern Illinois University School of Medicine Library 2019-2020 | Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR. |
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2019 to 2020 |
| 15-40 Connection 3 Steps Detect - Massachusetts Vocational/Technical High Schools: Saving lives through early cancer detection 2018-2019 | 15-40 Connection is teaching audiences in high schools, universities, hospitals and corporations how to use personal health awareness to detect cancer earlier and improve cancer survival rates for eve |
Funding Amount: $10000 |
2018 to 2019 |
| : Improving Health Literacy of Library Patrons Experiencing Homelessness and Unstable Housing 2019-2020 | This project will build upon a successful 5-year evolving partnership between the New Haven Free Public Library (NHFPL) and Liberty Community Services, Inc. |
Funding Amount: $19000 |
2019 to 2020 |
| A Living Person’s Guide to Dying 2019-2020 | Although death is an inevitable reality of life, we often delay conversations about the topic until after the fact--a habit that can create unnecessary stress or confusion about our end-of-life wish |
Funding Amount: $8000 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Addiction Awareness and Education Partnership: Outreach to Families Dealing with Substance Use Disorders | Addiction continues to exact a heavy toll on those struggling with it, as well as their families. |
Funding Amount: $10000 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Advancing Circles of Support and Accountability: Community-based Outreach with Adults Transitioning from Incarceration | THRIVE empowers communities by creating spaces that welcome and support our neighbors transitioning from incarceration. |
Funding Amount: $10000 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Advancing Consumer Health Information Discovery with the Plymouth Public Library | This project will provide the computers, necessary software support and marketing which will be used in the main Library and the Branch Library and at local community events and health fairs. |
Funding Amount: $3460 |
2018 to 2019 |
| African Women’s Wellness Initiative (AWWI) | The African Women’s Wellness Initiative (AWWI) is a community based outreach and prevention program geared towards improving health outcomes of the target population. |
Funding Amount: $19998 |
2019 to 2020 |
| After School Program | In collaboration with Wood River Elementary School, Maltman Memorial Library will provide after-school programming for 100 students. |
Funding Amount: $2500 |
2018 to 2019 |
| All of Sharon: Community Conversations on Mental Health | This project will host a speaker series featuring two local mental health professionals who will offer presentations on anxiety and depression. |
Funding Amount: $4500 |
2018 to 2019 |
| All of Us - Creative Aging Active and Moving | Eight Brooklyn Public Library locations will host eight-week Creative Aging: Active and Moving programs focused specifically on social dancing for older adults ages 55+. |
Funding Amount: $18117 |
2018 to 2019 |
| All of Us - North Country Healthcare e-library: health information outreach across New Hampshire's Rural North Country | This project will raise awareness of the NIH AoU program, to promote using and promote MEDLINEplus.gov (particularly among the limited literacy population). |
Funding Amount: $14017 |
2018 to 2019 |
| All of Us - The All of Us Research Program and Public Libraries | The National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine have partnered to support public libraries in meeting the health information needs of their patrons and engaging their communitie |
Funding Amount: $16070 |
2018 to 2019 |
| All of Us ABQ Public Library Individualized Health Information Program 2018-2019 | A health educator will be hired by ABQ to exclusively provide All of Us program support, extend the educational offerings of the All of Us program, promote the All of Us program, provide health inform |
Funding Amount: $80710 |
2018 to 2019 |
| All of Us ABQ Public Library Individualized Health Information Program 2019-2020 | A health educator will be hired by ABQ to exclusively provide All of Us program support, extend the educational offerings of the All of Us program, promote the All of Us program, provide health inform |
Funding Amount: $80710 |
2019 to 2020 |
| All of Us Community Engagement - Durham | Durham County Library (DCL) will collaborate with the Durham County Public Health Department and Duke University Medical Center Library to shape and implement the program over the course of the two ye |
Funding Amount: $64560 |
2018 to 2019 |
| All of Us Community Engagement - Memphis | The overall project objective for “All of Us in Memphis” is to create awareness for the national database project. |
Funding Amount: $57980 |
2018 to 2019 |
| All of Us Community Engagement - Nashville | Be Well at NPL aims to provide anyone access to free health and wellness activities, education, and resources in a safe and welcoming environment. |
Funding Amount: $80000 |
2018 to 2019 |
| All of Us Community Engagement 2019-2020 | Durham County Library (DCL) will collaborate with the Durham County Public Health Department and Duke University Medical Center Library to shape and implement the program over the course of the two ye |
Funding Amount: $65000 |
2019 to 2020 |