Each year, the WDA Foundation awards individual grants of up to $5,000 to nonprofit programs and clinics with a focus on helping Wisconsin residents improve their oral health. Your foundation has distributed nearly $650,000 to large and small oral health projects across the state during the past 16 years.
We want to introduce our foundation grant program to as many worthwhile oral health projects as possible, and that’s where you come in!
Do you volunteer at a local nonprofit dental clinic? Are you involved with a charitable oral health program that targets low-income children, adults, seniors, veterans or people with disabilities? You can help them in another way by introducing them to the WDA Foundation annual grant program.
We are currently accepting applications for grant funds that will be distributed in 2017. This is a competitive, application-only process with a July 31, 2016 deadline.
Each application is thoroughly reviewed by members of the WDA Foundation’s Finance and Allocation Committee. Decisions on 2017 grant recipients will be announced in mid-December.
The WDA Foundation grant program seeks proposals from:
- Nonprofit, reduced-rate dental clinics
- Oral health education projects (e.g., classrooms, schools, health fairs, social service agencies)
- Oral health education in conjunction with preventive programs (e.g., fluoride and dental sealant application projects)
- Other creative, philanthropic endeavors relating to dentistry in Wisconsin
The foundation does not award funds for:
- Specific individuals’ care
- Salary or other staff/volunteer compensation
- Travel
- Endowments, fundraising campaigns or general operating expenses
- Lobbying of any kind
- Capital costs (e.g., purchasing, remodeling or furnishing of facilities)
- Organizations and projects outside of Wisconsin
Click here to learn more about the WDA Foundation grant program or contact WDA Foundation Executive Director Vicki Bohman ([email protected] or 800-364-7646).
Decisions of the WDA Foundation are final. Submission of a grant application does not guarantee funding.
