Recent Funded Projects
| Title | Description | Amount | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mental Health Resources in Oil Creek District | The Oil Creek Library District will be providing a digital repository of mental health resources for the fourteen library outlets in our District (Clarion, Jefferson, and Venango counties in PA). |
Funding Amount: $16500 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Promoting Mammograms for LGBT Community Members in Pennsylvania Through Public Library Outreach | Surveys consistently show that rates of mammography are significantly lower among lesbian and bisexual people than their heterosexual counterparts, according to the National LGBT Cancer Network. |
Funding Amount: $20000 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Mobile Hotspots for Circulation | Through this proposed project, the Nevada County Community Library will purchase 47 mobile hotspots and lend them to library cardholders for at-home use. |
Funding Amount: $20000 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Beaumont Library District Health Outreach Initiative | Our plan is to use the funds to acquire books on Covid-19, which we will use in a display in order to educate the public on the topic. |
Funding Amount: $4200 |
2020 to 2021 |
| CDU and King/Drew High School Health Professionals Partnership | The proposed project seeks to create an awareness of how to find and evaluate reliable health information on the Internet. |
Funding Amount: $19794 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Expanding Telehealth Services at WCCHC School-Based Health Clinics | Telehealth is rapidly emerging as the standard of care during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
Funding Amount: $13980 |
2020 to 2021 |
| Health Careers Boot Camp Series: Increasing the Health Professions Pipeline in California’s Central Valley | The California Health Sciences University (CHSU) Health Sciences Library, in collaboration with the CHSU Simulation Center, Marketing and Communications, and faculty and staff in the College of Osteop |
Funding Amount: $20000 |
2020 to 2021 |
| 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 |