Applications are now being accepted for the Northeast Delta Dental Foundation Grant.
Donor Name: Northeast Delta Dental Foundation
State: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/07/2025
Grant Size: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Funding Information
Grants of more than $5,000 are less typical than those most often awarded by the Northeast Delta Dental Foundation.
Grant Period
Typically, grants are awarded for one year, and an organization receives no more than one grant a year.
Eligibility Criteria
In keeping with the spirit of the mission, vision, business, and value statements of Delta Dental Plan of Maine, Delta Dental Plan of New Hampshire, and Delta Dental Plan of Vermont, the Foundation aspires to partner with community organizations and programs that share its passion for increasing access to, and quality of, oral health care in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. 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.
The Foundation shall evaluate each application for contributions, grants, or scholarships on its merits, in keeping with the following 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.
- 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 the states, or that will lay a sound groundwork for oral health initiatives.
- Improve dental health workforce through scholarship and loan repayment programs.
For more information, visit NDDF.
