Low Income

Mission/Giving Statement: Advocates for children’s oral health, the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry  promotes evidence-based policies and clinical guidelines; educates and informs policymakers, parents and guardians, and other health care professionals; fosters research; and provides continuing professional education for pediatric dentists and general dentists who treat children. Also, supports: Service, Education, and Research that advances the oral health of infants and children through adolescence, including those with special health care needs.

Grantmaking Program Areas: Oral Health

Grantmaking Program Area Descriptions:

Healthy Smiles, Healthy Children: Provides matching grants of up to $20,000 to community-based organizations providing dental care services to underserved kids. Healthy Smiles, Healthy Children will explore its options for expanding our Access to Care initiatives to include multi-year grants to strengthen our impact on the access and underutilization oral health challenges facing U.S. children.

Application Instructions: Grant application instructions online. 

Mission/Giving Statement: To support programs for the education and training of mothers during pregnancy and after the birth of their children, so that good nutritional habits can be formed at an early age. To assist in the training of persons to work as educators and demonstrators of good nutritional practices. To encourage the dissemination of information regarding healthful nutritional practices and habits. In limited situations to make grants to help solve immediate emergency hunger and malnutrition problems.

Grantmaking Program Areas: Human Nutrition; Health; Education; Training & Research

Application Instructions: Grant application instructions online. 

Grantmaking Program Areas: Health; Human Rights; Homeless & Poverty

Mission/Giving Statement: Third Wave Foundation is a feminist, activist foundation that works nationally to support young women and transgender youth ages 15 to 30. Through strategic grantmaking, leadership development, and philanthropic advocacy, it supports groups and individuals working towards gender, racial, economic, and social justice.

Grantmaking Program Areas: Reproductive Health & Justice

Types of Funding/Funding Restrictions: The Foundation funds projects which benefit, target, are devised by, and led by young women, transgender, and gender nonconforming youth activists, between the ages of 15 and 30. It especially looks for programs or organizations that focus on the needs of low-income communities, people with disabilities, immigrants, LGBTQ communities, and people of color. The Foundation does not fund national organizations, intermediaries or subsidiaries. Additional restrictions listed online.

Application Instructions: Email LOIs to program[at]thirdwavefoundation[dot]org.