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 |
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| Connected Camden: Public Wi-Fi and Environmental Monitoring at Community Art Spaces | Cooper Medical School of Rowan University | The Connected Camden pilot project will invest in the purchase and deployment of mesh Wi-Fi technology in Camden, New Jersey, as a key step toward addressing digital and health information inequities. Inspired by and in partnership with Philly Community Wireless, the initiative will test and install public Wi-Fi hotspots at arts-based nonprofits engaged in public programming located in two Camden neighborhoods impacted by air quality issues. Custom landing pages will be developed and highlighted at each site that direct users to reliable health information from the National Library of… | New Jersey | ||
| Enhancing Technological Infrastructure to Improve Health Information Access and Care Quality | LSJ Resilience Project | This proposal seeks funding from the NNLM to enhance the technological infrastructure of a Level III group home in North Carolina serving youth with complex behavioral and mental health needs. By implementing digital health tools, improving internet connectivity, and training staff and residents in accessing credible biomedical and health information, this project aims to align with NNLM's mission of improving public health through equitable access to health information. | North Carolina | ||
| Improving prostate cancer health information access for rural older adults in North Carolina: A usability evaluation of a digita | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - School of Information & Library Science | Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death among men in the United States. The information needs of prostate cancer patients and their families are particularly pressing due to the complexity of treatment options, many of which can significantly impact patients’ quality of life. Older men living in rural areas experience disproportionately higher mortality rates from prostate cancer than peers in urban areas. To address this health disparity, we propose a community outreach and usability study of the Interactive Prostate Cancer… | North Carolina | ||
| Access to Wellness Resources and Programs; Supporting 1st & 2nd Year Students | Bowie State University Foundation | During the 2025-2026 academic year, the Thurgood Marshall Library will offer free, 90-minute health wellness workshops to support first- and second-year students. While touching on all areas of health/wellness, the workshops will pay particular attention to mental health AND ensure that all students can easily and confidentially access those services. The library will partner with Counseling Services, Disability Services and Health Services along with student-led organizations that support student wellbeing. Each workshop will have a guest speaker to present information around the topic and… | Maryland | ||
| Rural Waves: Broadcasting Health, Empowering Communities | Eastern Area Health Education Center | The healthcare landscape is evolving rapidly, and staying informed is crucial for health professionals. Accessing the latest information in an engaging and convenient format is essential, especially for those in rural areas. This project aims to bridge that gap by expanding our podcasting initiatives to reach healthcare providers in underserved communities. This project will encompass a three-part design focusing on podcast equipment, podcast content and marketing strategies. Support Needed: Podcast Equipment: Invest in high-quality recording tools to ensure professional-grade audio for… | North Carolina | ||
| Health Literacy in the Laundromat: A Place-Based Outreach Model | Civic Suds Corporation | Civic Suds will launch Health Literacy in the Laundromat, a place-based outreach initiative designed to increase access to trustworthy health information among underserved families in Washington, D.C. and Maryland. Laundromats—one of the few remaining public spaces where families from all backgrounds routinely spend extended, uninterrupted time—offer a uniquely powerful setting to reach people who often fall through the cracks of traditional public health outreach. By integrating digital signage, printed materials, and live health info hours into these community fixtures, the project will… | District of Columbia | ||
| 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 | ||
| . Promoting Flu Vaccines for LGBT Community Members in Pennsylvania | Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center | While existing health disparities make it critical for LGBTQ people to engage in preventive care such as flu vaccinations, barriers to care including past or anticipated discrimination reduce the rate at which many LGBTQ people consume healthcare. The 2020 Pennsylvania LGBTQ Health Needs Assessment demonstrated that less than half of LGBTQ Pennsylvanians receive an annual flu shot. Though LGBTQ people were at increased risk with regards to COVID-19, other indicators including the Pennsylvania LGBTQ COVID-19 Vaccine Survey showed that LGBTQ Pennsylvanians were often less likely to… | Pennsylvania | ||
| ¬A Cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence Tool to Improve Chronic Kidney Disease Care in West Virginia | West Virginia University Research Corporation | Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) affects more than 1 in 7 adults in the United States (US) and leads to significant morbidity, mortality, and use of scarce healthcare resources. Despite the high prevalence of CKD, as many as 9 in 10 people with CKD are unaware of their disease. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System, West Virginia (WV) is ranked as the least-healthiest state in the U.S. with 4.6% of the… | West Virginia | ||
| Bit by Byte: Building Best Practices in Data Literacy | Towson University - Cook Library | Towson University is one of the nation's top 100 public universities, with over 22,000 graduate and undergraduate students. It has been ranked one of the country's most diverse campuses. In the fall of 2019, 22% of the incoming class were first generation college students and 48% identified as minorities. Towson University boasts a zero percent achievement gap for minority students, according to the U.S. Department of Education (https://www.towson.edu/news/2019/usnwr-diversecampus.html). In February, 2020, an effort to provide all Towson University students with access to the… | Maryland | ||
| Bridging Knowledge in Wayne County, NC | UNC Wayne | The primary goal of the Bridging Knowledge project is to increase both health and digital equity within Wayne County, NC by the use of grant-provided technology in a series of community partnership programs. This will be achieved by working with both the general community and new graduate nurses. In community partnership with Wayne County Public Library, a series of classes will cover a variety of health literacy programs focusing on the National Library of Medicine (NLM) of MedlinePlus, ClinicalTrials.… | North Carolina | ||
| Building Capacity Among Librarians for Machine Learning Applications to Bibliographic Data | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Health Sciences Library | This project will develop an open access, web-based user interface for machine learning tools currently in use as desktop applications by UNC Health Sciences Library (HSL) and create an accompanying full-day curriculum to be delivered to research librarians at multiple institutions at no cost. This funding will allow UNC HSL to share their expertise with other institutions around applying these innovative approaches to analyzing bibliographic data. Machine learning approaches in use at UNC HSL include… | North Carolina | ||
| Feed, Read, and Grow: Pediatric Anxiety Management Videos | Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine - Virginia Campus | Feed, Read, and Grow is a multi-agency project focused on improving access to health services, food, and literacy resources in the community. We will produce videos with content developed by the creative wellness company JOI NEURON based on recommendations from pediatricians and mental health professionals and delivered through original characters and educational songs in English and Spanish. These videos will be freely available on YouTube and Vimeo. The goal is to engage caregivers and their children in a fun learning experience about the important topic of anxiety. Through a… | Virginia | ||
| 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 | ||
| Health Education for the Community (HEC) | Taking Effective Action, Inc. | Taking Effective Action, Inc. (TEA) will carry out Health Education for the Community (HEC) with a goal to increase knowledge of health conditions affecting African American women, by teaching them where to find credible sources of health information from the National Library of Medicine (NLM). TEA will utilize its longstanding presence in Prince George’s County Maryland, Baltimore County Maryland and established relationships with faith-based and other community organizations to reach residents in this geographic area with emphasis on targeting African Americans. | Maryland | ||
| Health Literacy & Digital Learning in Rural Affordable Housing Developments | Libraries Without Borders | With the support of NNLM, Libraries Without Borders US (LWB US) will develop a model for quality health and digital learning for rural communities living in affordable housing developments. LWB US is a national nonprofit that designs programs that meet people where they are, providing the resources they need most. Since 2016, LWB US has led the Wash and Learn Initiative (WALI), which delivers library services in laundromats. Services include digital skill-building, early childhood literacy, and through the support of NNLM, a carefully… | District of Columbia | ||
| Health Literacy Supports Resiliency: Support for BIPOC Women and Families | The Children's Home Society of New Jersey | The goal of the project is to increase health literacy of participant Ocean and Monmouth County families about COVID-19 preventive measures such as vaccination and consistent mask use; and emotional health, anxiety and depression related to the pandemic and other social determinants of health, using medically accurate, bilingual health information sources such as Medline Plus and other vetted sources from the National Library of Medicine. The project’s intended audience is primarily Black and Hispanic families born in the US and myriad other countries of origin, especially… | New Jersey | ||
| Health Tools for All Project (HTAP) | Taking Effective Action, Inc. | Taking Effective Action, Inc. (TEA) will carry out the Health Tools for All Project (HTAP) with a goal to increase knowledge of health condition affecting minorities, credible sources of health information from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), and medical research including the All of Us Research Program. TEA will utilize its longstanding presence in Prince George’s County Maryland and the greater Washington, DC metropolitan area and established relationships with faith-based and other community… | Maryland | ||
| Healthy Garden, Healthy You: Providing information and tools on links between gardening and human health | University of Maryland College Park | Mental health and food insecurity are two of the greatest public health challenges facing our nation. Gardening provides access to fresh, healthy produce and can also improve mental health. We propose to combine health information with gardening tools for community members in Baltimore City and Prince George’s County Maryland, including a large number of racial and ethnic minority populations and individuals below the Federal Poverty Level. We will create virtual toolkits containing multimedia materials organized by audience and interest area and host a webinar to share information… | Maryland | ||
| Healthy Tech: Addressing West Philadelphia's Socio-technological Status Divide (STS) | Lankenau Medical Center | The Healthy Tech Project will partner with local West Philadelphia grocery stores to offer both Healthy Tech Stations (desks, chairs, Wi-Fi, computers and printers) as well Medical Student volunteer support to shoppers. The Healthy Tech Stations will give West Philadelphia shoppers access and coaching on how to locate health information using available websites including but not limited to: NNLM, USDA, CDC, OSHA, Aunt Bertha and local FQHC's. The Medical Student volunteers promote the utilization of the Healthy Tech Stations and accessing the information and care by actively… | Pennsylvania | ||
| Help Your Library Patrons Understand Clinical Trials | Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Health Sciences Library | This program, a collaboration between Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Libraries Health Sciences Library (Health and Wellness Library) and the VCU C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research aims to provide local public librarians with the skills to increase the health literacy of community members. This outreach project will be accomplished through consumer health information/clinical trials training workshops, a book discussion session, and an invited speaker event focusing on… | Virginia | ||
| Impact of COVID 19 on Overall Student Wellbeing: An Examination of Stress Causality on the Basis of Sex, Race, Income & Grade Level | Northern Kentucky University (NKU) | The purpose of this project is to: 1.) Determine the underlying causes for post-traumatic stress in college students at a Southern, regional accredited university and 2.) Develop four 15 to 20-minute virtual Health Literacy mini-curriculum sessions to share with university students, and populations alike. Utilizing the Trauma Symptom Check-list 33, which has six sub-scales (anxiety, depression, sexual abuse trauma index, sleep disturbance, and sexual problems),… | Kentucky | ||
| In This Together - Digital and Health Literacy with York County Public Library | York County Public Library | The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted several deficits within the York County, VA community, specifically the lack of digital literacy among seniors ages 65+. As our communities shut down during the pandemic and began relying on virtual connections, many of our seniors were shut out from everyday resources due to the digital divide. Simple tasks, such as purchasing groceries and setting up appointments to receive healthcare, suddenly became overwhelming obstacles in the form of online grocery ordering and virtual doctor’s appointments. It became obvious that digital… | Virginia | ||
| Increasing the Understanding of the CDC’s Guidance on PrEP to Erase LGBTQ Health Disparities | Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center | Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center’s Health Programs team will design and implement training on the CDC’s recently updated guidance on pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and inclusive and affirming practices for treating LGBTQ+ patients. The team will provide tailored training with actionable and reliable LGBTQ+ health information to Lehigh Valley healthcare professionals. This will also include best practices for utilizing MedlinePlus as a trusted professional resource for working with the LGBTQ+… | Pennsylvania | ||
| LGBTQ-affirming Health Fairs at Public Libraries | Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center | Through LGBTQ-affirming Health Fairs at Public Libraries, Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center aims to provide community members resources and referrals for specific LGBTQ-affirming healthcare services and providers in the Lehigh Valley region. The LGBTQ community experiences significant health disparities due to our historically marginalized status as a community. Through partnerships with 4 public libraries in Eastern Pennsylvania, we will create LGBTQ-affirming health fairs where participants will find information about some of the principal health issues affecting the… | Pennsylvania | ||
| Making “Mother Goose on the Loose – Goslings” Program Accessible to More Parents of Medically Complex Infants in the NICU | Mother Goose on the Loose, LLC | Mother Goose on the Loose (MGOL) is a method for planning and presenting early childhood programs that incorporates research-based theories of learning through engaging activities to help children ages 0-3 develop and strengthen early literacy, social, emotional, and cognitive skills. Target audience is parents, family caregivers, teachers, librarians, and other professional helpers. Among the many adaptations of MGOL, the MGOL-Goslings program was developed to address the need for early language and literacy intervention… | Maryland | ||
| Maternal Health Literacy Program | Do Care Doula Foundation Inc | As a community organization partnered with Delaware Adolescent Program, Westside Health, and La Red for childbirth and lactation education community classes, our Maternal Health Literacy program is dedicated to addressing the knowledge gap among pregnant individuals by providing accessible education on health information vocabulary. Recognizing that birthing people often face misinformation and lack of understanding in health terminology, our program focuses on delivering clear and comprehensible information essential for navigating pregnancy, birth, and postpartum stages. Through… | Delaware | ||
| Mental Health tools for NJ Health Connect | New Jersey State Library | Building upon the foundation and partnerships started with our statewide pandemic response program, NJ Health Connect @Your Library, New Jersey State Library (NJSL) will provide mental health trainings designed for library staff and a digital toolkit designed to be used both by library staff and patrons. In this project, we want to concentrate on mental health resources and training. Our goals are to help people make informed choices about healthcare, find reliable, understandable resources, and access a healthcare professional when appropriate.Project activities… | New Jersey |