Recent Funded Projects
| Title | Description | Amount | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Promoting Health Through Digital Literacy | The goal of the Clayton County Library System Health Literacy Initiative is to teach library patrons (particularly minority and underserved populations in our community) how to search for and evaluate |
Funding Amount: $19000 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Healthy and Digital Literacy Train the Trainer Program | This project will enhance Miami-Dade Public Library System’s (MDPLS) ability to provide health literacy information and reference services to the public through the expansion of staff health literacy |
Funding Amount: $19000 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Improving Health Literacy Awareness with Mobile Technology | The Fraser Resource Center and Health Sciences Library project plan is to use mobile technology to bring health literacy awareness to the community of Hall County. |
Funding Amount: $11200 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Ending the Stigma - A Mental Health Series - #2 | Lindenwood University will bring a mental health speaker to campus to challenge the mental health stigma and supply students with information and resources that are available to them. |
Funding Amount: $5889 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Bridging the Gap: Ensuring Digital Equity through WiFi Hotspot Lending | Since colleges and universities across the country moved to emergency remote learning for the spring 2020 semester, it has become abundantly clear there is a very real digital divide among students (a |
Funding Amount: $12000 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Fitness Fridays | The project will provide learning opportunities for the Goddard community on the topics of gardening, the importance of mental health, healthy eating, and healthy living. |
Funding Amount: $2500 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Staying Healthy At Home Cooking Club Pilot | The project will provide equipment to participate in weekly virtual lessons on nutrition and using MedlinePlus.gov as the primary resource for reputable health information. |
Funding Amount: $1850 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Southwest Missouri Community Health Literacy Project | CoxHealth Library Services will collaborate with Springfield-Greene County Library District (SGCL) to provide interactive online consumer health education. |
Funding Amount: $2500 |
2020 to 2021 |
| All of Us UNTHSC Library Individualized Health Information Program 2020-2021 | The University of North Texas Health Science Center will partner with the public libraries in their designated counties to extend the educational offerings of the All of Us program, promote the Nation |
Funding Amount: $10720 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Heart-Body Connection | The Heart-Mind Connection project will be a continuation and expansion of the Brain Health Initiative, which focused on educating the public on ways to lower their risk for dementia as well as providi |
Funding Amount: $9000 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Chinatown COVID Relief Program | Our project will provide culturally and linguistically appropriate COVID-19 outreach and education to low-income immigrants and refugees in the Chinatown and Lincoln Heights areas of Los Angeles. |
Funding Amount: $15000 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Increasing Health Literacy in Low-Income Communities through Community Doula Services | The AMAR Community-Based Doula Program is a program of The Children’s Home Society of New Jersey in Trenton, New Jersey. |
Funding Amount: $19915 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Introducing Health Sciences Librarianship | The project will provide an opportunity for a cohort of participants in the NNLM MAR region to develop a broader awareness of health sciences librarianship. |
Funding Amount: $6750 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Building Health Data Literacy Through Public Libraries | This project will enable libraries to help build their community’s health data literacy. |
Funding Amount: $20000 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Health Career Exploration K-8 | “Health Career Exploration – K-8” is a series of short sub-curriculum activities designed to help students gain valuable new insights about health and healthcare, and health careers, while having fun. |
Funding Amount: $19165 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Pop The Question - Men Take The Wheel | "Pop the Question - Men Take The Wheel” is an expansion of Black Girl Health’s (BGH) 4-year national HIV/AIDS prevention campaign. |
Funding Amount: $45000 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Green Thumbs In Your Community | Black Girls with Green Thumbs promotes health literacy in a way that is culturally competent and accessible, meeting community members where they are, online and within their neighborhoods, and inviti |
Funding Amount: $19728 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Health Information Partnerships for Brooklyn | Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) will develop and implement a year-long project of expert-led health information programs targeted to vulnerable populations with identified health challenges. |
Funding Amount: $20000 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Dental Health Access for Vulnerable Immigrants | The Health Access Program at Nationalities Service Center assists vulnerable refugee and immigrant clients to gain crucial knowledge for their health and to access needed healthcare services. |
Funding Amount: $17837 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Mental Health and Well-Being Resources in North Country Libraries | The Mental Health and Well-Being Resources project is designed to increase health literacy and mental health awareness in the North Country Library System, a mostly rural geographic area that consists |
Funding Amount: $6647 |
2020 to 2021 |