The ADA Foundation Samuel D. Harris Fund for Children's Dental Health is a permanent endowment fund dedicated to the prevention of childhood caries and oral health promotion and education.  The Harris Fund awards competitive grants of up to $5,000, to selected applicants whose oral health programs are designed to improve and maintain children's oral health through primary prevention and education.  Please note 2009 funding is more limited than in past years.  A total of $50,000 will be available for program grants and approximately 8-10 awards will be made

Proposals for grants of up to $5,000 received from community-based, non-profit, oral health and early childhood caries prevention education programs for mothers/caregivers of infants in the United States and its territories that comply with the Submission Guidelines will be considered.

Examples of qualified oral health promotion programs include the following:

§ oral health, ECC and nutrition education materials designed for parents of infants, caregivers of and/or child care providers for infants; 

§ ECC  education programs for mothers and caregivers of infants  in conjunction with prenatal classes, post-partum classes, Women, Infants and Children programs and other infant preventive education and health awareness venues; and  

§ development of public service announcements (PSAs) and other mass media vehicles to increase awareness of, and appreciation for, proper infant oral care to prevent ECC.

Submission Deadline: January 8, 2010. For more information and details please visit their web site. To download the application (word document) please click here.

To view other available grants please click here.

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