Harris Fund for Children’s Dental Health Grant Program

Posted by on July 04, 2011

American Dental Association Foundation Accepting Applications for Harris Fund for Children’s Dental Health Grant Program
Deadline: July 18, 2011

An annual initiative of the American Dental Association Foundation, the Dr. Samuel D. Harris Fund for Children’s Dental Health Grant Program provides funding to programs that are designed to improve and maintain children’s oral health through outreach, primary prevention, and education.

The program currently focuses on funding parent/caregiver education programs to prevent early childhood caries, also known as baby bottle tooth decay, by circumventing primary oral bacterial infection before it can take hold. Proposals from nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations and government agencies will be accepted for community-based oral health and ECC prevention education programs for mothers/caregivers of infants in the U.S. and its territories.

The program currently focuses on funding parent/caregiver education programs to prevent early childhood caries, also known as baby bottle tooth decay, by circumventing primary oral bacterial infection before it can take hold. Proposals from nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations and government agencies will be accepted for community-based oral health and ECC prevention education programs for mothers/caregivers of infants in the U.S. and its territories.

Approximately seventeen grants of up to $5,000 will be given in 2011. In 2010, the program made eighteen grants totaling $84,137.

The foundation will not consider grant requests from individuals, or for staff or professional salaries, indirect costs, cost recovery, capital costs, or lobbying of any kind.

Visit the ADA Foundation Web site for the complete Request for Proposals and application materials.

http://www.ada.org/applyforassistance.aspx#harris