Recent Funded Projects
Title | Description | Amount | Dates |
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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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Kina ("Together") | Kina (“Together”) will serve Native Americans (Ojibwe) in northern Minnesota. |
Funding Amount: $20201 |
2021 |
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 |
Data Management and Qualitative Data Analysis in Biomedical Systematic Reviews | This project aims to develop the competence of a graduate intern who will lead training and consultation on the use NVivo to support data management and analysis of qualitative data in biomedical syst |
Funding Amount: $7721 |
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 |
Community Health Literacy Training | For this award of $25,000 P. I. Advocates International, Inc. |
Funding Amount: $25000 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Convert Seven Popular Online Interactives | The Genetic Science Learning center will convert and upgrade seven popular online interactives that were developed in Flash to compatible formats for modern web browsers. |
Funding Amount: $49400 |
2021 |
Health-Info-Equity: Delivering Accurate Information in Southern New Jersey AHEC Communities | Project Health-Info-Equity will provide AHEC Scholar learning activities and take-away outreach consumer health materials to help them understand what is health information literacy. |
Funding Amount: $2526 |
2021 |
Ethical Considerations of Data: A Curriculum for Health Sciences Librarians | As librarians and researchers alike grapple with new technologies and methodologies for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating data, they must also grapple with corresponding ethical issues. |
Funding Amount: $36351 |
2021 |
Health Literacy and Privacy in a Pandemic World | This project will provide quality virtual information related to health and wellness privacy and literacy that librarians can use to better serve their communities. |
Funding Amount: $20424 |
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 |
COVID-19 Information Dissemination with Promotoras & Native American Health Communities | The University of Arizona Health Sciences Library will lead a series of programs and events to provide reliable, culturally sensitive and aware health information. |
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2021 |