Past Funded Projects

This page includes awards made during the previous NNLM award period (May 1, 2016 - April 30, 2021).

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Title Summary Project Period
Awareness August

Twinsburg Public Library will host three speaker programs and share posts on social media including Facebook and Pinterest in the month of August to help focus on three issues that have impacted the community: addiction, child welfare & online behavior, and vaccinations. The goal of these programs and post will be to provide quality information for the community, with a highlight on MedlinePlus and PubMed. Each awareness social post will also include a link to an NLM resource.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
Awareness for Credible Online Health Information and Healthcare Utilization for Adult Managed Care Enrollees

The volume of information available online makes it difficult to navigate and validate. The overall goal of the project is to improve awareness for credible online health information by providing an interactive MedlinePlus session in 95 community settings. GHP aims to accomplish the goal through partnership with Fayette County public libraries and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Medical Library RML at the University of Pittsburgh. Together, we intend to develop and conduct an interactive MedlinePlus training program in Fayette County for 88 22 years with at least one health condition.

May 1, 2017 - April 30, 2018
Bangor Public Library Staff Development Day

This project will provide a staff development day at the Bangor, ME Public Library to focus on improving service to patrons dealing with poverty, housing insecurity, and mental illnesses such as addiction. Working with these populations requires a set of interpersonal communication techniques that may differ in some ways from the techniques used by staff when dealing with other populations. Interpersonal communication strategies that staff can quickly use to avoid escalating or begin de-escalating situations will be developed.

November 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Basics of Health Literacy: A K-12 Community Partnership

Developing a Replicable Model for Health Literacy to Promote Positive Youth Development is a year-long, school-based, in-class, student-centered, experiential, and technology-driven health promotion and disease prevention program being implemented with 9th and 10th graders as well as 3rd, 4th 5th graders at the participating Pittsburgh public inner city schools to create health literate k-12 public school students who are able to access, navigate, obtain and understand health information and use it to make informed decisions about their health.

September 1, 2016 - July 31, 2017
BE WELL at NPL: Advancing Health Literacy in Nashville 2020-2021

BE WELL at NPL advances health literacy in the Nashville/Davidson County community by providing access and outreach to free wellness programs and health resources through the trusted space of the Nashville Public Library system. BE WELL addresses local health inequities by prioritizing resources and activities in NPL branches whose neighborhoods have higher rates of chronic disease and less access to healthy living opportunities.

June 12, 2020 - April 30, 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. We also plan using up to ten Kindle Paperwhites to loan out to our patrons so as to better advertise our e-book services.

September 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Becoming a Healthier Community: Step by Step

Provide health education and health information searching skills for individuals in most need with a focus on affordable food selections, simple meal preparation, and physical activity engagement to promote a healthy lifestyle.

September 19, 2016 - April 30, 2017
Becoming a Healthier You: Show Low Public Library

The proposed project aims to promote wellness in the Show Low, Arizona, area by providing resources for healthy cooking, exercise and hands-on classes, and by forming a Healthy Living club. The Show Low Public Library will make available for check-out a variety of kitchen equipment needed to encourage healthy cooking. Objectives include developing a Healthy Living Club for families and young 86. This club will provide information on how to be more active, healthy recipes that are kid-friendly, and exercise opportunities.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Becoming a Healthier You: Show Low Public Library July 2018-April 2019

The proposed project aims to promote wellness in the Show Low, Arizona, area by providing resources for healthy cooking, exercise classes, hands-on classes, and forming a 'Healthy Living' club. The Show Low Public Library will make available for check-out a variety of kitchen equipment needed to encourage healthy cooking. Objectives include developing a Healthy Living Club for families and young 86. This club will provide information on how to be more active, healthy recipes that are kid-friendly, and exercise opportunities.

July 2, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Best Practice in Decision-Making

The goal of this proposed project is to promote evidence-based practice in healtcare management by providing an educational program on evidence-based management {EBMgt for health administrators in the Pacific Northwest Region. The objectives of the education program are 1 to increase health administrator knowledge in EBMgt principles and processes in healthcare management; 2 to increase health administrator skills in information searching and access; and 3 to gain health administrator confidence in the implementation of EBMgt in decision-making within their healthcare organizations.

May 1, 2016 - April 30, 2017
Better Medicine Using the Internet -

Nahant, Massachusetts is a small, coastal community with an aging population. One or more chronic conditions are typical to this age group. Nahant Public Library would like to update its aging computers, laptops and e-readers and enhance them with shortcut links to trusted health information portals such as the National Library of Medicine's MedlinePlus and the National Institutes of Health's Research Program.

October 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Better Technology, Better Physicians

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education ACGME requires each institution with a graduate medical education training program to make available adequate resources for fellow education. For nephrology training programs, a meeting room with visual and other educational aids is required. The nephrology fellowship program offers didactic sessions to the fellows in a conference room without a TV, and a small whiteboard for projection.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Better Technology, Better Physicians

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education ACGME requires each institution with a graduate medical education training program to make available adequate resources for fellow education. For nephrology training programs, a meeting room with visual and other educational aids is required. The nephrology fellowship program offers didactic sessions to the fellows in a conference room with outdated technology. A wall-mounted, large screen smart TV is needed to enhance the didactic sessions.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Beyond the Book

According to the New Hampshire Center for Public Policy, by 2030,29.2% of the population in Merrimack County, NH will be age 65 and older - this is up from 12.4% in 2000. As the population continues to grow there is inherent value in providing opportunities to find meaning and beauty in aging while responding to living in an age-phobic culture.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Beyond the Book - Discussion with the Author

As the population continues to grow there is inherent value in providing opportunities to find meaning and beauty in aging while responding to living in an age-phobic culture. Through the use of visuals and the book, Aging with Wisdom by Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle, Beyond the Book Discussion with the Author will provide participants the opportunity to reflect on the aging process: noticing how the body changes can provide space for reflection on life's gifts and challenges, and aging often brings family members together, creating an opportunity to heal broken relationships.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Beyond the Wall

This project will hold an event in which a screening of the film Beyond the Wall will be held followed by a panel discussion with the people depicted in the documentary. This movie is a documentary showcasing five men working through Substance Use Disorder after incarceration. This event is for pharmacy students and faculty, and the 125.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
BGH College Ambassador Program: 88tal Health Awareness Campaign

How can public libraries help educate the community about mental health awareness and prevention affecting 92 of color? This is the driving question Black Girl Health Foundation, Inc. seeks to answer through our College Health Ambassador Program. Studies from the National Institute of Health NIH demonstrate the success of community ambassadorial projects. Ambassadors are members of the community who engage within the community to encourage health awareness and internal health engagement and outreach program that underpins the goals of Black Girl Health.

November 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
BGH Connect

Black Girl Health Foundations BGH Connect is a digital campaign that includes upgrading the Black Girl Health BGH Membership Portal to include new content, and a social media marketing campaign designed to attract two hundred 200 new 92 in Designated Market Areas DMAs and 98 cores with high populations of African Americans; these shall encompass metropolitan Delaware Wilmington and Dover, New Jersey East Orange, Newark, and Trenton, New York Hempstead, New York, and Mount Vernon, and Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and the Capitol Region Harrisburg.

June 9, 2020 - April 30, 2021
BGH Minds Matter D.C.

Black Girl Health Foundations Minds Matter D.C. is a program in partnership with the Washington, D.C. Public Library System designed to reach out to 92 of color in the Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia area collectively known as DMV and educate them about mental health and mental health resources. Black Girl Health BGH has already hosted a very successful iteration of Minds Matter in Harrrisburg, PA with the support of the Dauphin County Library System, and we have Minds Matter - NOLA scheduled to take place October 10th, 2020 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

June 11, 2020 - April 30, 2021
BGHF Minds Matter- Harrisburg

Black Girl Health Foundations Minds Matter Harrisburg is a program in partnership with The Dauphin County Library System that is designed to reach out to 92 of color in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area and educate them about mental health and mental health resources. Black Girl Health Foundation BGHF has already hosted a very successful in-person iteration of Minds Matter in Harrrisburg, PA with the support of the Dauphin County Library System, and we have Minds Matter - NOLA scheduled to take place October 10th, 2020 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

November 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Bibliometrics and Scientometrics for Research Evaluation

Program will be provided by Leiden Universitys Centre for Science and Technology Studies and Northwestern University's Galter Health Sciences Library. Provides instruction in citation analysis, tools for bibliometric visualizations, and other research impact methods to help evaluate scientific research.

November 9, 2020 - November 12, 2020
Bigelow Free Public Library Professional Development Award - ALA Midwinter

Professional development to attend Implicit Bias, Health Disparities and Health Literacy: Intersections on Health Equity at the ALA Midwinter conference in Seattle, WA, January 2019.

October 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
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 National Historical Park. To be held at the Douglas State Forest, Douglas, MA. This grant application is to support individuals with who have assorted disabilities.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
Body and Soul: Overcoming Barriers to Health and Nutrition

The intention of the Body and Soul programming is to discuss topics that are frequent causes of stress and poor health, and how to manage and approach these topics in a way that acknowledges barriers in the lives of individuals. The targeted audience includes 88 and the elderly. Each portion of the program will feature a qualified speaker to discuss a key topic, and will include instruction by a program facilitator on NNLM MedlinePlus resources that correspond to the presentation.

March 5, 2020 - April 30, 2020
Brain Health Initiative

The Sacramento Public Library will address the growing population of people living with Alzheimer's disease and concern around Alzheimers disease.

December 2, 2019 - April 30, 2020
Bridging Health Information Gaps at the Public Library

Through Health Team training, targeted use of specific online resources, and the efforts of a Health Outreach Specialist, Portland Public Library will improve the health of the Greater Portland community's teen, immigrant/refugee, and homeless populations. This improved access to health information will result in members of these groups reporting an increase in their levels of overall health literacy and their ability to be confident, informed patients as they navigate their healthcare options.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Bridging Health Information Gaps at the Public Library

Access to reliable health information for vulnerable populations: Vulnerable populations often reflect diversity from a number of perspectives. Diversity is frequently defined by social and demographic characteristics such as age, gender, race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. As PPL considers those segments of our patron and user base who are most vulnerable, we believe this initiative can serve the needs of Portland's teen population, homeless population, and the Immigrant/refugee segments of our community.

January 1, 2017 - November 30, 2018
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 and families who have access to a home computer and/or reliable, high-speed Internet and those that do not. With many classes again being offered through online modalities for the Fall 2020, and social distancing guidelines limiting computer lab space, this divide will continue to inhibit students' abilities to easily complete their course work.

August 17, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Bringing Rigor and Reproducibility to Research

Reproducibility is one of the main principles of research. Rigor in the design of the research is another. The aim of the one-day symposium, Bringing Rigor and Reproducibility to Research, is to assist in highlighting these issues for the research community at the University of Pittsburgh. The day with feature a nationally know keynote speaker, a panel discussion with members of the University's research community, and a spotlight on library supported resources that will help 133s bring rigor and reproducibility to their own research.

September 1, 2016 - September 22, 2016
Bringing the NIH 3D Print Exchange and 3D Printing to El Paso's Health Care

The Texas Tech University Health Science Center at El Paso Libraries will bring 3D printing and knowledge of how to use the NIH 3D Print Exchange to the health workers, medical students, Hispanics, and doctors in Western Texas.

September 19, 2016 - April 30, 2017
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