Dental Trade Alliance Foundation

Grant Guidelines and Criteria

What is the Dental Trade Alliance (“DTA”)?

The Dental Trade Alliance is a non-profit trade association that represents dental manufacturers, distributors and laboratories. The objectives of the DTA are to enhance the success of its members and increase the demand for oral healthcare. The DTA promotes and encourages the development, production and distribution of equipment and materials for the dental profession, dental and hygiene schools and programs and dental laboratories so as to enable its members to perform the highest degree of useful service for the public health and welfare.

What is the DTA Foundation?

The Dental Trade Alliance Foundation (“DTAF”) was established in 2000 to focus on solutions to issues benefiting Dentistry such as:

§         Productivity enhancements for increased patient care and flow

§         Capacity solutions

§         Access to care improvement to help reach and serve more people

§         Collaborations for increased reach, impact and cultural competency

§         Citizenship efforts to better serve dental professionals, patients and their communities.

Our Mission and Objectives

Our mission is to fund and leverage initiatives that increase the awareness of, access to, and capacity in oral health care.

The DTAF has established a permanent endowment, and with focused fundraising and outreach is committed to increasing the grants available to support selected programs and projects that promote awareness of, access to, and capacity in oral health care.

Our goal is to be an enabling grant program that provides seed money and project direction to innovative, early-stage, potentially expandable projects that exemplify the DTAF mission and advance productivity, capacity, access, collaboration and citizenship.

Eligibility Criteria

Each proposal that is accepted will be funded up to a maximum of $25,000.  Applications are welcome from, but not limited to, for-profit organizations, dental organizations, dental schools, universities, government and/or community based non-profit groups for programs located in the United States and its territories.

Evaluation of Proposals

The DTAF Program Committee will take the lead in the evaluation of submitted requests for funding.  The DTAF may seek guidance in its evaluation of programs from the DTA Board and collaboration with the Santa Fe Group.

It is suggested that the majority of the requested project funds will be used for supplies, materials or new personnel not presently on the project staff.  No salary offsets or overhead will be considered for budgetary purposes.  The DTAF will look favorably upon projects that indicate budgetary contributions of their own resources to the project.  A planned project evaluation of the proposed scope of work should be a component of any grant submission.   The DTAF’s priority is to award grants to projects that can leverage additional funding and expansion in other geographic areas.  Programs that are solely local in scope and do not appear to be reproducible nationally or over a greater population , thus limited to attracting additional outside funding for future years, will be considered but may be outside the scope of current funding parameters.

Grants will be ranked and awarded based on the following areas:

§         Ability of program to address the Mission of the DTAF

§         Originality, creativity and innovation

§         Potential impact on target audience or goal

§         Sustainability of the program past the funding period

§         Ability of program to attract additional funding following pilot completion or build-up

§         Ability to use project as a model program for expansion in other geographic areas.

Grant Award Requirements

·         The DTAF requires awardees to submit an annual progress report on fund use and program progress.

·         Once funded, the DTAF requires the project director(s) to acknowledge the support it received from DTAF in any project communications, advertising or public relations outreach.

·         Grantees should be willing to present descriptions and outcomes of their projects at DTA and DTAF functions.

·         Grantees will be required to provide project-related program materials, photos and other media to the DTAF Executive Director upon request.

For more information about the grant submission and summart proposal please see the links below:

DTAF Grant summary proposal

DTAF Grant guidelines