The ADA Foundation honored five grant recipients of the Give Kids A Smile Program Growth Fund at its annual awards gala, held recently in Washington, DC.
For the second year in a row, CareCredit's annual $100,000 donation to the fund has enabled five key programs to expand services and access to care for children in underserved communities, the company announced.
As a result, the 2009 grant recipients each received $20,000 and were chosen based on "their superior vision and leadership in dentistry, demonstrated through the success of their existing outreach programs," the company said in a press release.
The grant recipients include:
- Program Champion grantees: The America's Dentists Care Foundation (Missions of Mercy) and TeamSmile
- Program Growth grantees: The Hispanic Dental Association, the National Dental Association, and Oral Health America
The grants will be used by these organizations to fund school and community oral health projects and school-based mobile dental vans, and to increase access to restorative dental care.
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