Northeast Delta Dental Foundation Grants

The Northeast Delta Dental Foundation grants aim to enhance oral health care access and education in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. The Foundation supports initiatives that focus on improving awareness of good oral health, preventive care, and accessibility of dental services. Grants typically cover one year and prioritize projects that serve disadvantaged populations. The Foundation encourages applications from 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) organizations that align with its oral health mission.

NOTE: All applications are reviewed by the Foundation Advisory Committee. Applications of $2,000 or less will be considered throughout the year and may be approved by that committee. Applications of over $2,000 will be referred to the Foundation Board of Directors by the Foundation Advisory Committee with their recommendations.
Healthy Smiles
The Northeast Delta Dental Foundation is on a mission to improve the education, quality and access to oral health care throughout Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Foundation funds directly engage the people in our communities and create a powerful impact.
Award Objectives
Award objectives will concentrate on supporting the following types of oral health initiatives:
Educational programs enhancing the awareness of good oral health, with particular focus on children, the elderly, the indigent, or other populations with identified oral health needs.
Oral health care programs that are preventive in nature and are aimed at decreasing the incidence, prevalence, and severity of dental disease.
Dental clinics or centers established as a 501(c)(3) or Federally Qualified Health Center working to make oral health care more accessible and affordable to people in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Most typically, this takes the form of helping with the costs of equipment and dental supplies.
The education of dental health professionals through scholarships and the continuing education of dental health professionals through financial support, particularly to enhance the availability and retention of such dental health professionals in the states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.
Research efforts that will improve oral health by enhancing the art and science of dentistry, address an oral health disease or issue impacting one or more of our states, or that will lay a sound groundwork for oral health initiatives.
Improve dental health workforce through scholarship and loan repayment programs.
Award Frequency and Amount
Typically, grants are awarded for one year, and an organization receives no more than one grant a year. Applications for additional years must be submitted annually, accompanied with an annual outcomes report.
Grants of more than $5,000 are less typical than those most often awarded by the Northeast Delta Dental Foundation. Especially as the amount of the grant for which the applicant is applying increases, the expectation is that the information required during the application process will be well documented and detailed, with particular attention to how the Foundation will be recognized for its financial support.

Eligibility

Northeast Delta Dental Foundation contributions, grants, and scholarship funding are awarded to organizations that:

• Have nonprofit 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4) status or are governmental or academic institutions.
• Do not discriminate by race, sex, religion, color, creed, age, national origin, or any other protected class.

Are involved in projects or activities that address one or more of the stated objectives of Northeast Delta Dental Foundation’s funding guidelines.Only applications requesting funds related to oral health will be considered.
Awards may take the form of financial, technical, or human resources, or some combination of the three.

Ineligibility

The Foundation will not support initiatives unrelated to oral health.