Recent Funded Projects
| Title | Description | Amount | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Engagement in Health: Expanded Access via Technology 2019-2020 | The Arvin A. Brown Library in Richford VT requests funding to upgrade computers and software so as to make information and access available to the broader community. |
Funding Amount: $10000 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Data Navigators 2.0 - Building Foundational Data Analysis Skills Among Future Healthcare Leaders 2019-2020 | An NNLM Community Engagement grant would support the delivery of Data Navigators 2.0, a high-impact data analytics and visualization course contextualized for healthcare careers and applications and |
Funding Amount: $12890 |
2019 to 2020 |
| All of Us Research Program Community Engagement Project: Hancock County, Maine 2019-2020 | Through the proposed project, Healthy Acadia will work across Hancock County, Maine to plan and conduct community engagement activities, centered on increasing access to and awareness of National Li |
Funding Amount: $15000 |
2019 to 2020 |
| All of Us Research Program Community Engagement Project: Washington County, Maine 2019-2020 | Through the proposed project, Healthy Acadia will work across Washington County, Maine, to plan and conduct community engagement activities, centered on increasing access to and awareness of Nationa |
Funding Amount: $15000 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Technology support for Maine's rural libraries to access MedlinePlus - Technology Award 2019-2020 | Rural areas in Maine have limited access to health information. |
Funding Amount: $10000 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Linking Maine's rural library users with MedlinePlus - Community Engagement 2019-2020 | Rural areas in Maine have limited access to health information. |
Funding Amount: $6710 |
2019 to 2020 |
| A Living Person’s Guide to Dying 2019-2020 | Although death is an inevitable reality of life, we often delay conversations about the topic until after the fact--a habit that can create unnecessary stress or confusion about our end-of-life wish |
Funding Amount: $8000 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Reducing Health Disparities among VIPs - Addressing Health, Aging and Vision in North Worcester County | This project will engage the many Visually Impaired People (VIPs) and their caretakers in North Worcester County, specifically those residing in the Fitchburg and Leominster areas. |
Funding Amount: $12030 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Improving Health Literacy of Library Patrons Experiencing Homelessness and Unstable Housing 2019-2020 | This project will build upon a successful 5-year evolving partnership between the New Haven Free Public Library (NHFPL) and Liberty Community Services, Inc. |
Funding Amount: $19000 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Clinical and Public Health Approaches for Health Care Professionals Working in Shale Gas Communities | In an effort to expand health care knowledge resulting in improved health information access and delivery to clients, we propose to work with Robert Morris University, School of Nursing and Health Sci |
Funding Amount: $19962 |
2019 to 2020 |
| All of Us Greater Fairfield 2019-2020 | As an agent of intra-community cooperation and collaboration, the C.H. Booth Library proposes to geographically expand its successful All of Us Newtown program to neighboring communities. |
Funding Amount: $14075 |
2019 to 2020 |
| From the Public to Professionals: Health Information as a Bridge to Wellness | Building Bridges to Wellness spans gaps between the community and health information. |
Funding Amount: $19999 |
2019 to 2020 |
| African Women’s Wellness Initiative (AWWI) | The African Women’s Wellness Initiative (AWWI) is a community based outreach and prevention program geared towards improving health outcomes of the target population. |
Funding Amount: $19998 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Professional Devlopment Award to attend Bibliometrics and Scientometrics for Research Evaluation | This course is a three-day session held at Northwestern University’s Galter Health Sciences Library, where 25 librarians and research professionals will come together to learn from experts in using pu |
Funding Amount: $1950 |
2019 |
| Partner Outreach 2018-2021: University of Wisconsin-Madison 2019-2020 | Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR. |
Funding Amount: $2800 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Partner Outreach 2018-2021: Southern Illinois University School of Medicine Library 2019-2020 | Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR. |
Funding Amount: $2800 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Libraries Build Healthy Communities | In recent years Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) has identified public health as a growing area of need. |
Funding Amount: $50000 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Partner Outreach 2018-2021: University of Louisville 2019-2020 | Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR. |
Funding Amount: $2800 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Explore Health - Make Comics | The RCS Community Library will invite students to engage with high quality health information though MedlinePlus in the process of creating graphic novels using the Graphic Medicine Comic (or zine) Cr |
Funding Amount: $5590 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Libraries, Literacy and the Pursuit of Healthiness: A Western New York Health Information Literacy Outreach Project | The Western New York Library Resources Council (WNYLRC) is seeking a Community Engagement Network grant from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Middle Atlantic Region (NNLM MAR), that will |
Funding Amount: $16368 |
2019 to 2020 |