This page includes awards made during the current NNLM award period (May 1, 2021 - April 30, 2026).
For awards made during the previous NNLM award period (May 1, 2016 - April 30, 2021) please visit Past Funded Projects.
To browse our open funding opportunities please visit Funding Opportunities.
| Name | Lead Organization | Project Summary | Project Start Date | Project End Date | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apple of His Eye Inc. Promotion & Enhanced Engagement of Mental Health Education Programming Offered by NAMI Southwest Ohio | Apple Of His Eye Inc. | Apple of His Eye Inc. will work with NAMI to promote and enhance engagement for a total of 3 community-based workshops (held virtually or face to face) focused on providing individuals and families with relevant mental health literacy tools and education to inform a better quality of life for individuals living with persistent and severe mental health conditions and loved-ones supporting family members living with persistent and severe mental health conditions. The following three workshops may include one or more of the following: Peer to Peer, Family- to-Family, Family &… | Ohio | ||
| Apple of His Eye Inc. Promotion & Enhanced Engagement of Mental Health Education Programming Offered by NAMI Southwest Ohio - Part II | Apple Of His Eye Inc. | Apple of His Eye Inc. will work with NAMI to promote and enhance engagement for a total of 3 community-based workshops (held virtually or face to face) focused on providing individuals and families with relevant mental health literacy tools and education to inform a better quality of life for individuals living with persistent and severe mental health conditions and loved-ones supporting family members living with persistent and severe mental health conditions. Further, Apple of His Eye Inc. & NAMI have partnered successfully on past community-based mental health education… | Ohio | ||
| DIVE-IN (Developing Inclusive Voices & Experiences In Nursing) Program | National Association of Hispanic Nurses- CT Chapter | The need to successfully address the lack of diversity in our health professions has never been greater, as we learn more about health disparities within our communities of color and discuss ways to improve health equity. Considering racial/ethnic backgrounds (AACN,2019), the RN population is comprised of 80.8% White/Caucasian; and only 6.2% African American; 7.5% Asian; 5.3% Hispanic; 0.4% American Indian/Alaskan Native; 0.5 Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, which is not reflective of our nation’s diversity. While pipeline program in high-schools have been happening for… | Connecticut | ||
| Promoting Older Adults’ Use of Online Health Information Sources: An intergenerational train-the-trainer approach | Bentley University Library | One of the stated goals of the NNLM is to “promote awareness of, access to, and use of biomedical information resources for health professionals and the public, with a particular emphasis on contributing to the Healthy People 2020 goal of eliminating health disparities.” Bentley University Library staff, in partnership with students in Dr. Danielle Blanch Hartigan’s Health Psychology (PS340) course and the Bentley Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Center (BSLCE), will create and present resources to older adults at the Waltham Council on Aging (WCA)… | Massachusetts | ||
| Better Access for the Best Care: Increasing Medical Professional Awareness and Access to Library Resources | Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Staff Library, Bon Secours Health System | The Medical Staff Library at Good Samaritan Hospital (GSH) would like to increase awareness and access to electronic resources, both within the physical library and remotely by 15% in 6 months. This includes resources provided by the National Library of Medicine as well as other electronic resources in which the library subscribes. Access to these resources are extremely valuable for medical professionals in continuing their medical education resulting in the best possible healthcare and services for our community. To achieve our goal and improve access to healthcare educational… | New York | ||
| Collection Equity Outreach Award | PlaneTree Health Library | PlaneTree Health Library proposes to create an oral history record of the present-day concerns of people in San Francisco Bay Area’s diverse communities with regard to communications (and miscommunications) with their healthcare teams. Our plan is to produce several video interviews with healthcare professionals and community health advocates who work to promote health within their own communities. We will identify representatives from the major cultural groups in the Bay Area, particularly: East Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean), South Asian (Indian Subcontinent),… | California | ||
| Get Healthy Newtown! | Cyrenius H. Booth Library | Get Healthy Newtown! Is a one-year project that will send librarians and staff out into the community of Newtown CT for health education and health literacy. The project will improve public health by providing the general public and nonprofit leaders with both formal and informal education sessions on MedlinePlus and other databases and resources of the NLM. The classes and sessions will offer the opportunity for the library to lend grant-funded and library-purchased technology to end users with pre-identified NLM sites and resources for their health-related information needs. This… | Connecticut | ||
| Health Information Equity among Underserved Communities | Al-Hamra Academy | This project seeks to make accessible for students, their families, and members of the larger community health information by creating a robust educational learning experience across grade levels. Middle School Students will engage in creating health informational materials including brochures, videos, and presentations in English, Urdu, Arabic, Spanish, and other languages to disseminate information on healthy practices that will keep underserved populations safe from the risk of COVID -19 and its variants. The project is bold in its outlook and seeks to create and provide rigorous… | Massachusetts | ||
| Health Outreach on Respiratory Hazards and Illnesses in New York State | Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project (EHP) | In an effort to expand access to reliable health information and increase community-based health literacy, the Environmental Health Project (EHP) proposes to work with several community organizations in New York State to provide information relating to the potential health effects of exposure to air pollution. To achieve this goal, we will engage community organizers and residents through EHP’s Environmental HealthWatch Model, a train-the-trainer approach designed to empower community members with public health tools and resources. With support from the Network of the… | Pennsylvania | ||
| Increasing Access to Community Health Worker Resources for the New England Region and Beyond | Community Health Worker (CHW) Central | The COVID-19 Pandemic has underscored the value of community health workers (CHWs) in providing healthcare to underserved communities in the United States and across the globe. CHW Central is the preeminent web-based community of practice and knowledge management resources for and about CHWs. Our work increases access to the most recent evidence on community health worker programs, metrics, and tools. With a Health Information Outreach Grant from NNLM, we will expand the reach and use of the latest CHW evidence, make training resources more easily accessible and improve efficiencies… | Massachusetts | ||
| Online Health Information Program Platform | Long Island Library Resources Council (LILRC) | The Long Island Library Resources Council will improve its capacity for providing health information services to member libraries. Currently, we provide sessions throughout the year in order for hospital and health sciences librarians to stay current on health information services. This technology would enhance our ability to provide hybrid sessions and meetings bringing librarians together. | New York | ||
| Overdose Response Information and Training | PCO Hope | Plymouth County, as a whole, has been significantly impacted by the opioid epidemic. Between July and November 2021 there were 640 suspected overdose incidents, 50 of those suspected overdoses were fatal. However, more than 90% of people who are administered Narcan for an opioid overdose survive (https://plymouthcountyoutreach.org). For the time period of 2016-2018, the death rate for drug overdoses in Plymouth County was 766 deaths per 100,000 population (https://www.addicted.org/plymouth-county-2.html). Given the rate of overdose deaths and opioid overdose survival rates due to the… | Massachusetts | ||
| Pilot Certified Nursing Assistant Program (CNA) designed as a training opportunity for diverse and minority students to enter the health care profession | Southern Connecticut State University-Hilton C. Buley Library | Pilot Certified Nursing Assistant Program (CNA) is targeted at providing opportunities for diverse and minority students who come from under-served and marginalized populations to learn through health education, training, practice, and final certification. The program will emphasize understanding our present health care systems, explore avenues for advancement, and use Open Educational Resources (OER) in allied health professions and health science fields, as required resources and tools for this success. Our program is designed to include resources from the National Library of… | Connecticut | ||
| Repurposing data from NIH's iCite to dynamically provide bibliometric-based decision support | Weill Cornell Medical College- Samuel J. Wood Library | Leaders at academic medical institutions regularly need bibliometric analyses to inform their decisions, but are often forced to settle for crude metrics such as journal impact factor or raw citation counts for individual articles. To meet this need, we will use publications authored by a given person, harvest relevant statistics from NIH's iCite service, and dynamically generate a sophisticated report for that person. The report will include a bibliometric summary of a person's scholarly output, listing that individual's most influential publications,… | New York | ||
| Walk Yourself Fit | Moby Bookmobile | Beginning in June, 2024 “Walk Yourself Fit” books will be purchased and shared with communities in three locations on the Wind River Reservation, where Moby Bookmobile regularly reaches out to the community. Along with the books, a pedometer will be provided to community members registering to take theWalk challenge. Weekly, Bookmobile will update the list of Athletes on big posters in each location (Fort Washakie Post Office, Ethete Health Clinic, Arapaho Health Clinic). During June-August participants will exercise… | Wyoming |