Recent Funded Projects
| Title | Description | Amount | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reshaping a Health Information Clearinghouse to Improve User Experience and Outcomes of Rural Primary Healthcare Providers | This proposal reflects a partnership between the Savitt Medical Library at the University of Nevada, Reno, and the Office of Statewide Initiatives, University of Nevada, Reno, School of Medicine. |
Funding Amount: $12000 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Vernon Walks: Promoting Health Literacy and Community Fitness in Vernon/Rockville | The Rockville Public Library and its partners, The Vernon Senior Center, The Vernon Housing Authority, and the Rockville General Hospital, seek to improve health outcomes for adult residents living ac |
Funding Amount: $4444 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Promoting Health Literacy to Influence Health and Wellness of Students in the Community: Widening the Connections 2019-2020 | The Massachusetts Action Coalition (MAAC) proposes to build on and expand the outcomes of our initial Innovations Fund award that has developed an innovative partnership with the National Libraries of |
Funding Amount: $25000 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Increasing Vermont Public Libraries’ Role in Promoting Rural Health | The Vermont Department of Libraries (VTLIB) seeks funding to make local, state, and federal government healthcare information accessible to all Vermonters. |
Funding Amount: $30000 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Using Machine Learning to Assess Critical Thinking Skills Related to Health and Nutrition | Critical thinking (CT) skills, such as ability to analyze information, form logical conclusions, and problem solve, are essential for students and measure for educational outcomes because they demonst |
Funding Amount: $9875 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Science Education through Video Recordings from New England Science Boot Camp for Librarians 2019 | For ten years the New England Science Boot Camp (SBC) event has been promoting science literacy among librarians in the Northeast. |
Funding Amount: $4124 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Empathy Learned Through an Extended Medical Education Virtual Reality Project 2019-2020 | UNE Library Services will collaborate with the College of Osteopathic Medicine (COM) to compare four virtual reality (VR) experiences related to older adult health with 1st and 2nd year medical studen |
Funding Amount: $5000 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Addiction Awareness and Education Partnership: Outreach to Families Dealing with Substance Use Disorders | Addiction continues to exact a heavy toll on those struggling with it, as well as their families. |
Funding Amount: $10000 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Advancing Circles of Support and Accountability: Community-based Outreach with Adults Transitioning from Incarceration | THRIVE empowers communities by creating spaces that welcome and support our neighbors transitioning from incarceration. |
Funding Amount: $10000 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Continuing the Public Health Museum’s educational community outreach program | The Public Health Museum is a non-profit educational and cultural museum located in a building listed on the National Register of Historic Places on the grounds of Tewksbury Hospital founded in 1854. |
Funding Amount: $10000 |
2019 to 2020 |
| NNLM Public Health Alliance to Connect, Teach, and Serve (PHACTS) | Pomperaug District Department of Health (PDDH) will leverage its vast network of community partners to implement a focused outreach program to connect underserved older adults to MedlinePlus resources |
Funding Amount: $10000 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Pittsfield Financial Assistance for Professional Development | This is an application for a Professional Development Award to attend the Association of Rural and Small Libraries (ARSL) conference in Burlington, VT, in September of this year. |
Funding Amount: $335 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Health Literacy and Health Information Resource Education in the Lawrence Community | Health literacy is the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information in order to make informed health decisions. |
Funding Amount: $9929 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Instruction Retreat for Health Sciences Librarians | Instruction is a growing responsibility of academic health sciences librarians, but we rarely have the time, space, and community to take our ideas and notes from the previous year, combine it with th |
Funding Amount: $1800 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Massachusetts-Based Health Education Tour 2019-2020 | HAMA will be conducting a Massachusetts-Based Health Education tour from May 2019 – August 2019. |
Funding Amount: $9835 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Graphic Medicine Book Club Kits | Darien Library proposes the creation of 11 Graphic Medicine Book Club Kits, modeled after those offered by NNLM NER. |
Funding Amount: $8037 |
2019 to 2020 |
| HPV Educational Interventions in American Indian Populations | Team Maureen, a nonprofit dedicated to ending cervical cancer by educating about the HPV-Cancer connection and the importance of prevention and early detection, in collaboration with Brigham and Women |
Funding Amount: $10000 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Media Health Effects: A Tool for Researchers | The explosion of digital technologies in the 21st Century has not only transformed the ways in which we learn, communicate, and live, but also created a public need for evidence-based answers on how w |
Funding Amount: $10000 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor: Accessible Recreation and Physical Activity | This grant application is to fund adaptive kayaking events supported by the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor Volunteers-In-Parks program in partnership with Blackstone River Valley N |
Funding Amount: $9693 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Improving Cancer Survival Rates in the Fire Service | 15-40 Connection and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine both work to provide access to vital health information to improve quality of life and the healthcare experience, especially in those |
Funding Amount: $10000 |
2019 to 2020 |