Recent Funded Projects
| Title | Description | Amount | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| The COVID-19 NAVIGATOR Youth Empowerment Pilot Program (EPIGRAM): A Health Literacy Collection and Curriculum for the Coronavirus Pandemic | The COVID-19 NAVIGATOR Youth Empowerment Pilot Program (EPIGRAM) will enable schoolage students to access health information and resources to learn about the COVID-19 pandemic and how to engage with o |
Funding Amount: $20000 |
2020 to 2021 |
| MOVING Beyond COVID-19: Helping Consumers Move toward Emotional Wellness through Accessible Online Learning | The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted emotional wellness in many ways. |
Funding Amount: $19958 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Connecting with Health | This public library project will facilitate access to quality health care via telemedicine in a rural community. |
Funding Amount: $19789 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Unidos en Nuestra Salud" Providing Capacity Building to our Community Members as Well as Public Health Education Regarding COVID-19 | Unidos en Nuestra Salud is an initiative that aims to provide health education, health literacy and health information skills to the Spanish speaking community including but not limited to health info |
Funding Amount: $19965 |
2020 to 2021 |
| The Superwoman Project | “Mothers Matter” is Black Girl Health Foundation’s newest programming and has been developed to provide support to moms in every aspect of their lives, including: new motherhood, child mortality, pare |
Funding Amount: $19971 |
2020 to 2021 |
| #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 |
| Multicultural Conversations About the End of Life | High-quality end of life care should be available to all individuals in a timely manner, and in alignment with their values, wishes, and goals. |
Funding Amount: $20000 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Central PA FUN (Food: Understanding Nutrition) Initiative | The Central PA FUN (Food: Understanding Nutrition) Initiative will be focused on improving health literacy around food & nutrition in six counties in central Pennsylvania. |
Funding Amount: $15070 |
2020 to 2021 |
| BGHF Minds Matter- Harrisburg | Black Girl Health Foundation’s “Minds Matter Harrisburg” is a program in partnership with The Dauphin County Library System that is designed to reach out to women of color in the Harrisburg, Pennsylva |
Funding Amount: $19994 |
2020 to 2021 |
| 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 |
| MLA CE Passport | MLA CE Passport. Full access to MLA online courses through December 31, 2020. |
Funding Amount: $489 |
2020 |
| Planning Grant for the Utah Health Literacy Coalition | This project supports the further development of the Utah Health Literacy Coalition in its mission to improve access to health information, especially for underserved communities, in Utah. |
Funding Amount: $3663 |
2020 to 2021 |
| 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 |
| Medical Library Association CE passport | Medical Library Association CE passport |
Funding Amount: $375 |
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 |
| MAC/MLA 2020 Annual Conference | The MAC/MLA 2020 Annual Conference will bring together members of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library association for a virtual meeting. |
Funding Amount: $5000 |
2020 |
| An assessment of data stewardship in the Health Sciences Colleges at the University of Iowa | University of Iowa researchers in the Health Sciences Colleges conduct significant research across many domains. |
Funding Amount: $9933 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Help With Managing COVID-19 Related Stress | For the proposed project, the North Haven Memorial Library (NHML), working with North Haven's Long Term Recovery Planning Committee and local health and wellness agencies, will promote health lit |
Funding Amount: $8782 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Data visualization with Excel: A hands-on internship from the University of Minnesota Health Sciences Library | Through the Data visualization with Excel internship, the University of Minnesota Health Sciences Library (HSL) will host a Data Visualization Intern to further the work of NNLM RD3: Resources for Dat |
Funding Amount: $9975 |
2020 to 2021 |