Recent Funded Projects
Title |
Description | Amount | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chronic Disease Management 10: Maximizing Your Health in the Digital Age | The Critical Path Learning Center (CPLC) at Philadelphia FIGHT Community Health Centers will design a series of 10 health and wellness workshops called “Chronic Disease Management 10 (CDM10): Maximizi |
Funding Amount: $19999 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Community Outreach on Respiratory Hazards and Illnesses in Southwestern Pennsylvania | According to the American Lung Association's 2019 "State of the Air" report, Pittsburgh’s air quality was ranked the 7th worst in the country. |
Funding Amount: $19999 |
2020 to 2021 |
| 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 |
| Improving Health through Collaboration: Libraries and Public Health | This session will highlight the importance of libraries as partners in public health initiatives and programs. |
Funding Amount: $432 |
2019 |
| 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. |
Funding Amount: $2800 |
2019 to 2020 |
| #BlackLivesMatter: Community Health All-Night | Queens Borough Public Library (also known as “Queens Public Library” or “QPL”), in collaboration with the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (“BCALA”), will conduct a 24-hour virtual eve |
Funding Amount: $49500 |
2020 to 2021 |
| 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 |
| 2019 APHA Annual Meeting Conference | This presentation will highlight four public health preparedness collaboration projects completed by the Philadelphia Department of Public Health in partnership with the Free Library of Philadelphia b |
Funding Amount: $546 |
2019 |
| A Library-based Data Retrieval and Management Training Program for Clinical Researchers | Enterprise Data Warehouses (EDWs) play an increasingly important role on academic medical campuses, housing clinical and other enterprise-wide data and making it available for research and strategic p |
Funding Amount: $19999 |
2020 to 2021 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Action Health Partners Website Improvement | Action Health Partners (AHP) is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating, supporting and empowering individuals to improve their quality of life and well-being in North Central Washington (NCW |
Funding Amount: $5000 |
2020 to 2021 |
| 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 |
| Addressing COVID-19 Concerns in Amish Country | Amish settlements can be found in 31 states in the US, and Ohio is home to two of the world’s largest communities. |
Funding Amount: $46251 |
2021 |
| Addressing Opioid Education of Special Populations of Urban Dwellers of Sioux Falls, South Dakota | This project will focus on two urban agencies in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, whose primary clientele are urban dwellers who are socioeconomically challenged and lack access to appropriate and understan |
Funding Amount: $9807 |
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 |
| AgriSafeHealthHub (AHH) | The purpose of the NLM funded project is to create an agricultural health and information hub that serves as a clearinghouse for public health information for farmers, ranchers, farmworkers and rural |
Funding Amount: $164355 Funding Amount: $113256 |
2020 to 2021 |