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.
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| Project Title | Lead Organization | Project Summary | Project Start Date | Project End Date | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Get Connected: Providing Connectivity for Teens to Access Health Information | YMCA of Central Massachusetts | This project aims to provide iPads and computers to the teen program at the YMCA of Central MA- Central Branch located in the Main South Worcester community, significantly improving their access to technology for academic support, health information and skill development. These devices will not only serve academic purposes, but will also be integral to teaching technological skills and supporting our entrepreneurial program. They will be used for personal health research, project management, and training, empowering teens with the tools they need to succeed. By equipping underserved… | Massachusetts | ||
| Get Healthy with Rover! | Library System of Lancaster County | The Library System of Lancaster County (LSLC) provides mobile library resources to home-based childcare providers of children birth to age five through the Be READy Rover bookmobile, the Early Literacy Outreach Specialist, and their partnership with community organizations. Collaboratively, we focus on essential components to healthy development and learning, provide training and educational materials to providers, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, helped to provide basic food services to Providers and the families they serve. The Get Healthy with Rover! project would utilize the… | Pennsylvania | ||
| Getting Connected: Digital Literacy Education for Seniors | Penn Asian Senior Services | We want to empower Asian-American seniors to engage with digital life. The Pew Charitable Trust found that nearly one-third of seniors report never using the internet. Low-income seniors and seniors with limited English, especially, do not have access. According to the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), 21% of immigrant adults who speak a language other than English at home have no computer experience, compared to only 5% of English speakers. Even if seniors manage to get online, they disproportionately fall… | Pennsylvania | ||
| Green Thumbs In Your Community | Black Girls With Green Thumbs | Black Girls With Green Thumbs promotes health literacy in a way that is culturally competent and accessible, meeting community members where they are - online and within their neighborhoods - and invites them to new experiences like community-based gardening and physical activity. The ongoing “Green Thumbs In Your Community” program will continue to build a network of individuals, families, and community institutions that utilize gardening and physical activity… | Pennsylvania | ||
| Grief 101: Improving Grief Literacy in our Community | Sharing Kindness, Inc. | At Sharing Kindness our tagline is "start the conversation". We want to have courageous and informed conversations about death and loss, about mental health and suicide, and about grief. Dr. Mary-Frances O'Connor writes, "For as long as there have been human relationships, we have struggled with the overwhelming nature of grief following the death of a loved one". Our peer grief group participants share that they often feel unheard and unsupported in their grief - the result of a fairly grief illiterate society. We propose a partnership with our local… | Massachusetts |