Recent Funded Projects
| Title | Description | Amount | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Educating Healthcare Professionals and the Sighted Community of Worcester County on the Health Disparities among VIPs 2020-2021 | This project will engage medical professionals in various specialties, improving their health literacy and reducing health disparity for individuals who are blind or who suffer with low vision (VIPs). |
Funding Amount: $10000 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Health and Wellness Information Station | The primary goal of this project is to assist in the delivery of improved and discrete health information to the residents of Martha’s Vineyard. The project will provide funding to purchase a comput |
Funding Amount: $7000 |
2020 to 2021 |
| “Opening Doors To The Outdoors” 2020-2021 | The Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor, (BHC) known for its rich history, has opened its borders to visitors previously unable to share in adventures. |
Funding Amount: $9960 |
2020 to 2021 |
| The New England Minority Nursing Collaborative: Promoting Access to Health Information. | Through an established network of seven New England chapters of the National Black Nurses Association, Inc. |
Funding Amount: $10000 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Enhancing Health Information Access After Hours in a Hospital Setting | The aim of this project is to enhance access to health information for users of the Matthews-Fuller Library Health Sciences Library (MFHSL) at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) when the inform |
Funding Amount: $1900 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Reaching Beyond: Expand Outbreak! 2020 to new online audiences | The current global pandemic has pushed the Public Health Museum (PHM) to retool delivery of its successful week-long "Outbreak!" high school summer program into a virtual classroom experienc |
Funding Amount: $10000 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Learning Your Way to a Healthy Brain | The Rhode Island College Foundation is facilitating the collaboration of the James P. |
Funding Amount: $10000 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Virtual Health Education Tour 2020-2021 | HAMA will be conducting its 3rd Health Education Tour from August 2020 – October 2020. |
Funding Amount: $7800 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Supporting a Healthy Community Head to Toe: Food for Health 2020-2021 | To provide a safe and fun environment for children and adults, individuals and families to learn about healthy options for food and cooking. |
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2020 to 2021 |
| Helping Seniors Take Health Decisions into Their Own Hands | Health information can change quickly. In an underfunded public library, this translates into out of date resources that can misinform consumers. |
Funding Amount: $7000 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Food Literacy at the Worcester Public Library through Nutrition Education and Healthy Cooking Classes | The Worcester Public Library (WPL) seeks to educate adult patrons on food choices for healthy living. |
Funding Amount: $5110 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Improving Provider Knowledge of HPV to Reduce Cancer on Nantucket & Martha’s Vineyard | Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the USA. Over 90% of cervical and anal cancers and 75% of oropharyngeal cancer are caused by persistent HPV infection. |
Funding Amount: $9504 |
2020 to 2021 |
| MedLine Integration -3 Steps Detect eLearning Platform Buildout 2020-2021 | 15-40 Connection is saving lives by teaching people how to detect cancer early and be active partners in their healthcare. |
Funding Amount: $7000 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Empowering Youth to Access Reliable Health Information | CT-NAHN aims to improve the capacity of under-served adolescents and teens to locate and integrate reliable health information so they can make informed health decisions. |
Funding Amount: $9877 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Utilizing Open Source Research Data to Combat Neglected Diseases | This award would partially fund Phase I of a Medicinal Chemistry Cheminformatics Concentration Track for students enrolled in a school of pharmacy. |
Funding Amount: $10000 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Partner Outreach: University of North Dakota 2020-2021 | Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM/NNLM resources on behalf of the GMR. |
Funding Amount: $1983 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Partner Outreach: Southern Illinois University School of Medicine Library 2020-2021 | Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM/NNLM resources on behalf of the GMR. |
Funding Amount: $1983 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Partner Outreach: Ohio State University Health Sciences Library 2020-2021 | Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM/NNLM resources on behalf of the GMR. |
Funding Amount: $1983 |
2020 to 2021 |
| This is your project | The NNLM Web Services office (NWSO) supports the Network of the National Library of Medicine's web infrastructure and associated web technologies. |
Funding Amount: $1 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Heritage Public Library Community Health Outreach and Training | Heritage Public Library will improve the public health of our community by vastly expanding access to online health information for our underserved population. |
Funding Amount: $15000 |
2020 to 2021 |