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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Harris Fund News
The Samuel D. Harris Fund for Children’s Dental Health grants program received approximately 260 applications by the July 17, 2008 deadline. Applicants will be notified after November 26, 2008 of the Foundation’s action regarding the request. Grant recipients will be sent a check in the amount of their award by December 31, 2008. This year the Foundation has approximately $325,000 to distribute to grantees.
Last year 66 projects were selected for Harris Fund grants out of 258 applications. A total of $300,000 was awarded by the ADA Foundation.
In it’s ninth year, the Harris Fund provides grants up to $5,000 to organizations that serve children through primary preventive oral health education and treatment. Grants may be used for supplies and materials, and the program is offered annually.
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