How you can help!

• Grant agencies look for community support.


• They like networking and coalitions.


• Letters of support facilitate success in obtaining grants.


• Examples of items that you might want to include:
• Why are you or is your group or agency concerned about lack of access to dental care?
• Why do you feel a nonprofit dental clinic would benefit the community?
• Are you or is your agency willing to provide assistance, funding, technical support, etc., to the project?

Tell Your Personal Story

• The difficulties of real people make the importance of access to dental care come alive to those who might provide grants or other funds or support.
• Personal stories would be used without identifying the actual person to maintain confidentiality.
• Points you might include are:
• What happened to you or someone you know?
• How it affected you or them (caused a child to miss or not do well in school, caused someone to lose or not be able to get a job, resulted in severe pain, complicated another illness such as diabetes, etc.)
• How did you feel about this?
• Do you believe a nonprofit dental clinic would have helped prevent this situation?

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