The ADA Foundation has a permanent endowment fund dedicated to the prevention of childhood caries and oral health for children. The Harris Fund will award competitive grants of up to $5,000 to applicants whose oral health promotion programs are designed to improve and maintain children's oral health through community education and outreach programs. Applications are due annually in mid-July.
Objectives
The grant program’s main objective is to help children whose socio-economic status impacts on their access to professional oral care and adversely affects their oral health habits at home. The program philosophy seeks to increase access to, and education on, oral health care by encouraging volunteerism in the health professions community.
By also encouraging synergy between community based applicants and awardees, the grant program seeks to pool limited resources within dentistry, industry and public charities to significantly reduce the level of children’s oral disease through education. Through this effort, the program assists in the dissemination of oral health promotion activities to aid those children most at risk.
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2008 RFP
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Annual Program Timetable
- March 2008 - Request for proposals posted on www.adafoundation.org.
- July 17, 2008 - Proposals must be RECEIVED no later than July 17, 2008. If you require confirmation of receipt of your application, please arrange that confirmation with your shipping vendor or U.S. Post Office. The ADA Foundation will not confirm receipt of applications.
- After December 1, 2008 - list of grant recipients will be posted on www.adafoundation.org.
New for 2008—the process to find out whether a grant has been awarded is to visit www.adafoundation.org after December 1, 2008 to view the list of grant recipients. Regrettably, due to limited grant dollars we cannot fund all worthy programs. If your program is not selected as a grantee we encourage you to try again next year.
- After December 1, 2008 - notification of recipients will occur. Only grant recipients will be notified of the required grant terms.
- December 31, 2008 - grant recipients will be sent a check in the amount of their award by December 31, 2008 by following directions received after December 1.
- September 26, 2009 - A final written report is due to the ADA Foundation regarding the use of the grant funds by September 26, 2009. If the project is not complete by that time, submit an interim report by September 26, 2009; then submit a final report upon completion of the project, but no later than December 28, 2009.
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