Grants to improve access and quality of oral care

The mission of the Northeast Delta Dental Foundation is to improve the access to, and the quality of, oral health care and education for the public and the dental communities in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.

Grants are provided for the following:

• educational programs enhancing 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 (typically, this takes the form of helping with the costs of equipment and dental supplies);
   
• 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 company's states, or that will lay a sound groundwork for oral health initiatives; and,
   
• improvement of the dental health workforce through scholarship and loan repayment programs.

Note: Northeast Delta Dental also offers a corporate giving program, which supports organizations and programs that benefit the citizens of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.