Recent Funded Projects
Title |
Description | Amount | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| AoU 330 South Carolina Read Eat Grow | In 2018 the South Carolina State Library began a statewide food literacy initiative called SC Read Eat Grow. |
Funding Amount: $13100 |
2019 to 2021 |
| AoU 340 North Carolina Engage for Health - Phase 2 | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) Health Sciences Library (HSL), part of the University Libraries, will implement a training program for library staff, students, and the public usi |
Funding Amount: $9599 |
2019 to 2020 |
| AoU 345 The Biomedical Research Education in Community Settings Project (BRECS Project) | The BRECS Project teaches minority residents, public library, and community center staff in the Washington, D.C. |
Funding Amount: $14972 |
2019 to 2020 |
| AoU 353: Facilitating Rural Access to Quality Health Information through Little Free Libraries | By partnering on a Little Free Libraries (LFL) initiative with Florida’s Okeechobee County Library (OCL), this project aims to improve rural residents’ health literacy and understanding of precision m |
Funding Amount: $15000 |
2020 |
| AoU Community Engagement 258 - Breaking the Barriers with Healthier Lifestyles: Advocate and Communicate with Low-Income Minority Students and Community Learners | Restored Generation is an outreach organization focused on enriching and educating the underserved population. |
Funding Amount: $10000 |
2018 to 2019 |
| AoU Community Engagement 259 - Empower Parents -Equipping Parent Caregivers With Health Literacy Skills | Empower Parents will equip parent caregivers with much needed health literacy tools and skills. |
Funding Amount: $10000 |
2018 to 2019 |
| AoU Community Engagement 260 - Promoting Healthly Previentive Care for Senior Adults and First-year Students at Alabama A & M University | Drake LRC wants older African Americans and students to make healthy choices and avoid risky healthcare behaviors. However, the potential pitfalls for senior adults and students are great. |
Funding Amount: $6068 |
2018 to 2019 |
| AoU Community Engagement 261 - Project HEAL (Health Empowerment and Literacy) | Project HEAL will combine health literacy with English language instruction at the Trident Literacy Association (TLA) in Charleston, SC. |
Funding Amount: $10000 |
2018 to 2019 |
| AoU Community Engagement 263 - Health Science Library Information Outreach: Supporting Public Libraries Supporting All of Us | Public libraries are known for being community centered institutions providing equitable access to information and resources. |
Funding Amount: $9842 |
2018 to 2019 |
| AoU Community Engagement 267 - Improving Health Information Literacy with the EVMS Library: A Hampton Roads Community Initiative | As one of the only medical schools in the nation founded by a grassroots effort from the local community, Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) is committed to addressing our community’s most pressin |
Funding Amount: $7116 |
2018 to 2019 |
| AoU Community Engagement 268 - Library Outreach Tricycle Initiative | The Library Outreach Tricycle Initiative (LOTI) will provide a novel means of outreach service for the Miami-Dade Public Library System. |
Funding Amount: $10000 |
2018 to 2019 |
| AoU Community Health Outreach: Information Resources for Alaska’s Libraries and Their Patrons: Outreach in the Last Frontier | This award supports an additional travel day on trips scheduled for Assistant Professor Sigrid Brudie of the Alaska Medical Library for public library training sessions. |
Funding Amount: $6622 |
2018 to 2019 |
| AoU Community Health Outreach: Public Library Services for the Alzheimer’s and Dementia Community | This project will expand library services for people with Alzheimer’s and Dementia through the Missoula Public Library Memory Café. |
Funding Amount: $5816 |
2018 to 2019 |
| AoU Exhibit 279 Wayne County Health Fair 2020 | The library would like to purchase an Infinity - iPad + Monitor Kiosk that features a monitor mount, a universal tablet holder, and two literature holders to use at the health fair to promote and trai |
Funding Amount: $1207 |
2020 to 2021 |
| AoU Exhibit 284 - Area Agency on Aging, Senior Lifestyles 2019 Expo | This year’s theme is “We are Local – Connect, Create, Contribute.” This will be quite appropriate as I work closely with the University of South Alabama hospitals and elderly communities promoting and |
Funding Amount: $1963 |
2019 |
| AoU Exhibit 296 Veterans and Military Families Day 2019 | Exhibit at Veterans and Military Families Day in Ward, SC |
Funding Amount: $1208 |
2019 |
| AoU Exhibit 335 Remote Area Medical (RAM) Clinic, Gray, TN 2019 | Exhibit at the Remote Area Medical (RAM) Clinic, Gray, TN November 2019 |
Funding Amount: $1025 |
2019 |
| AoU Exhibit 336 Remote Area Medical (RAM) Clinic, Wise, VA 2019 | Exhibit at Remote Area Medical (RAM) Clinic, Wise, VA |
Funding Amount: $750 |
2019 |
| AoU Exhibit 338 Georgia Libraries Conference 2019 | Exhibit at the Georgia Libraries Conference October 9-11, 2019 |
Funding Amount: $1605 |
2019 |
| AoU Exhibit 348 Library Support at ETSU Health Fairs and CME Events | The library will be exhibiting at and supporting ETSU student and faculty led health fair and CME events throughout April 2020. - Corazon Latino Festival – April 2020, Johnson City, TN - Student-Led |
Funding Amount: $800 |
2019 to 2020 |