The DentaQuest Foundation is lending its leadership and sponsorship to investments directed at oral health improvement at the national, state and local levels. These investments are strategic and multi-layered. They are focused on the systems that provide care, fund improvements, enhance public policy, and help communities build and navigate available resources.
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Initiatives
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Description
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Contacts
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Oral Health 2014 Initiative
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Oral Health 2014 initiative is a multi-year, multi-milion dollar investment to strengthen and accelerate community action on behalf of better oral health and to support the U.S. National Oral Health Alliance (USNOHA.org) with engaged partners in the states. Grantees of the Oral Health 2014 Initiative are expected to develop plans for one or more of the six oral health priority areas developed by a wide range of stakeholders and which have been adopted by the Alliance.View RFP. Letters of Intent are due July 22, 2011. Application deadline is September 9, 2011. Awards will be announced in October, 2011.
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Matthew Bond
Program and Grants Associate
Pat Finnerty
Senior Advisor State Oral Health Programs
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Community Water Fluoridation Initiative
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The DentaQuest Foundation will fund community-based strategies to promote Community Water Fluoridation by invitation. Please contact us if you are interested in submitting a proposal for this Initiative
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Matthew Bond
Program and Grants Associate
Michael Monopoli
Director Policy and Programs
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Strengthening the Oral Health Safety Net Initiative
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DentaQuest Foundation's Strengthening the Oral Health Safety Net Initiative is working to enhance the capacity of community-based safety net health programs to provide oral health prevention, education and treatment to underinsured and underserved children and adults at the national, state and local levels. Partnering with the National Association of Community Health Centers and the DentaQuest Institute, this program will provide leadership development and technical assistance to sustain capacity-building efforts.View RFP
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Matthew Bond
Program and Grants Associate
Pat Finnerty
Senior Advisor State Oral Health Programs
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Venture Fund for Oral Health
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This funding opportunity supports the spread of promising oral health systems change initiatives that have been proven to make a measurable impact at the local or state level. In addition to grant support, grantees receive technical assistance to build organizational human capacity to ensure success in expanding their efforts.View RFP Applications accepted through November 1, 2011.
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Brian Souza
Managing Director
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U.S. National Oral Health Alliance, The Alliance
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The U.S. National Oral Health Alliance (USHOHA.org) is a national platform for cross-sector collaboration to improve oral health access by mobilizing oral health providers, medical providers, consumer advocacy groups, insurers, foundations, researchers and local, state and national policy makers to find common ground, speak with a common voice on oral health access, and achieve results for the tens of millions of Americans. The DentaQuest Foundation is a founding partner of the Alliance. Learn more at www.usnoha.org
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Matthew Bond
Program and Grants Associate
Dr. Michael Monopoli
Director of Policy and Programs
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National Interprofessional Initiative on Oral Health
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The National Interprofessional Initiative on Oral Health (NIIOH.org) is a consortium of funders and primary care health professionals whose vision is that dental disease can be eradicated. This systems change initiative is engaging the education and training systems that support primary care clinicians from multiple disciplines, including Family Medicine, Physician Assistants, Nursing, Pediatrics, Ob/Gyn, Internal Medicine, and Dentistry so primary care clinicians are alert to their patients' oral health needs, ready and willing to deliver oral health preventive services to patients of all ages, and effective partners with dental specialists. Learn more at www.niioh.org
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Matthew Bond
Program and Grants Associate
Tracy Garland
Program Director
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Funders Group for Oral Health
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Two dozen national philanthropic organizations meet quarterly as a Funders Oral Health Policy Group, for which the DentaQuest Foundation serves as convener and fiscal agent. These organizations are strong and active voices in community health and national health policy discussions. They are creating new opportunities for public-private partnerships focused on systems change for better oral health in communities across the United States.
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Matthew Bond
Program and Grants Associate
Tracy Garland
Program Director
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Contact by email: Matthew Bond, matthew.bond@dentaquestfoundation.org; Pat Finnerty, pat.finnerty@dentaquest.com; Brian Souza, brian.souza@dentaquestfoundation.org; Michael Monopoli, michael.monopoli@dentquestfoundation.org; Tracy Garland, TracyGarland@comcast.net
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