Deadline: 11/1/21
Amount: $2,500-$5,000 per grantee
Website: https://www.adha.org/resources-docs/2020_Mars_Wrigley_Foundation_Eligibility_and_Selection_Criteria.pdf
Description:
The ADHA Institute for Oral Health and the Mars Wrigley Foundation are pleased to offer professional members of the American Dental Hygienists’ Association (ADHA) the opportunity to apply for community service grants through November 1st. The Mars Wrigley Foundation’s Healthier Smiles Grant Program grants will be awarded to applicants who are involved in a specific community health project that provides access to care in underserved communities, improves the public’s oral health, and provides oral health care education.
Do you have a great community program that brings access to oral healthcare and education to a community in need?The Community Service Grant Program provides funding for dental hygienists to devise and implement community health projects. This grant opportunity empowers dental hygiene professionals to respond to their communities’ oral health concerns through community service projects.
Program Areas: Oral Health, Planning & Program Development, Public Health
Eligible applicants:
Town, City or County Government. Eligibility for this grant allows a practicing dental hygienist, group of hygienists, or an interdisciplinary team of professionals that includes a dental hygienist, to apply on behalf of programs with these considerations:
* Demonstrate involvement in outstanding activities with a community health program or project, which includes oral health enhancement.
* Illustrate that oral health education is one element of the project.
* Show that these activities enhance the public view of the professional role dental hygienists play in health improvement.
* Each project may be submitted only once during the course of a year, and if not funded, may not be resubmitted until the following grant competition.
* More than one entry from an applicant will be allowed, but only if each application shows merit, and if they are not deemed duplicates.
* Funded programs and organizations may not receive (2) two consecutive years of funding from the Wrigley Company Foundation Community Service Grant. If funded, the awarded program will not be eligible for funding until one grant year has passed.
* Current ADHA Institute Board of Directors, ADHA Board of Trustees and members of the Community Service Grant Review Committee may not apply as principal investigators.
PROGRAM CONTACT
(312) 440-8944