Outreach Grants

Outreach Grants

Overview: While local empowerment is at Smile Train's core, there are high-need areas where no qualified treatment teams exist. In places like these, Smile Train provides support to ensure medical professionals can reach these patients and build the capacity of local providers.

Geographic Scope: Low- and middle-income countries with the highest incidence of clefts, particularly high-need underserved areas

Focus: Building capacity of local providers and ensuring medical professionals can reach underserved patients

Eligibility: Healthcare organizations and medical professionals serving high-need areas

Funding Principles - What Smile Train Does:

• Focus exclusively on programs related to cleft lips and palates
• Focus on low- and middle-income countries with the highest incidence of clefts
• Support programs that provide free treatment for patients in need
• Support cleft team members and hospitals that need financial assistance
• Leverage support by cost-sharing with partners
• Foster self-sufficiency in partners
• Closely monitor and manage all programs and partners
• Require all partners to adhere to the highest standards of safety and quality

What Smile Train Does NOT Fund:

• Treatment for children whose families can afford it
• Surgeries that other organizations will subsidize (government, insurance, charities, etc.)
• Organizations that do not provide safe and high-quality treatment