Dorchester’s Chiara Eisner, co-founder and director of OncArt, has been awarded a $1,000 grant from the Pollination Project, which gives $1000 a day every day to individual change-makers and activists worldwide.

Eisner’s OncArt, Inc. connects clinicians with artists to create illustrated health education materials worldwide—“Art for Health Literacy, Everywhere.” Chiara Eisner and Julia Shivers have created a web app at Oncart.org that implements OncArt’s concept.

The site offers a collaborative design tool and an easily searchable, public database of works. OncArt invites clinicians to request art for their health messages, and artists to upload illustrations to respond to those requests. The finished, visual health education materials are saved in the Library to be viewed, shared, printed, or translated by anyone.

Chiara Eisner, who first pitched the idea for OncArt at a Global Cancer Hack-a-thon in downtown Boston, thanks The Pollination Project for “the vote of confidence and investment in the health of immigrants in Boston.”

“New Americans, refugees, and those in global health settings often have difficulty understanding their doctor’s important messages or even understanding where they should go for healthcare. At OncArt, we collaborate with both doctors and artists to create visual, illustrated health guides that try to make this easier for those most likely to fall through the cracks,” she said.

Eisner has lived in Fields Corner for two years. Aside from her work with OncArt, the young professional splits her time working at MASS Design Group, the architecture nonprofit developing affordable, transit-oriented housing in Mattapan, and teaching English and designing curriculum for adult English learners at Dorchester’s St. Mark’s Community Education Program.