2021 GRANTMAKING LAUNCH WEBINAR - DentaQuest Partnership Grants Team January 19, 2021
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2021 GRANTMAKING LAUNCH WEBINAR DentaQuest Partnership Grants Team January 19, 2021
Presenters
2Question and Answer Logistics
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3Objectives
Provide historical Discuss 2021 Provide information
context of grantmaking on processes,
grantmaking to date strategy areas timelines, and points
of contact
4COVID-19 and Health Equity
Health Equity
• The assurance of condition of optimal health for all people.*
• This means that the everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as
possible. Implicit in this is the requirement that such obstacles to optimal health be
removed such as poverty, discrimination, and their consequences, including
powerlessness and lack of access to good jobs with fair pay, quality education and
house, safe environments and health care.**
*Adapted from Dr. Camara Jones:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK540766/#:~:text=Health%20equity%2C%20as%20defined%20by,of%20health%20for%20all%20people.
**Adapted from Paula Braveman: https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20170622.060710/full/
See http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2020/racial-disparities-in-covid-19/ 5
See https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/covid-19-in-rural-america-is-there-cause-for-concern/2020 Highlights
National
• Restoration of Medicaid coverage for Compacts of Free Association (COFA)
residents in COVID relief package passed 12/27/2020 (impacting 100,000 Islanders
living in the US).
• Medicare Dental Benefit included in the Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force and
supported by multiple stakeholders (bi-partisan policymakers, national and state
organizations)
Medicaid Adult Dental Benefits Expanded
• Delaware, Virginia, Massachusetts, Illinois, West Virginia, Missouri, Oklahoma,
Kansas, Texas
Medicaid Adult Dental Benefits Protected
• Alaska, California, Colorado, Georgia, Nevada
Broad Emergent Response & Relief
• Racial equity, COVID-19, Wildfires, Hurricanes
6HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF
GRANTMAKING
7Evolution of Grantmaking
1999 - Current
Oral Health 2020,
12-year-old National Oral Health
Maryland boy Innovation &
dies from Integration Network,
untreated dental and Grassroots
abscess Engagement Initiative
launched
2021 & Beyond
82020 DentaQuest Partnership
Funding Groups
Strategic Building Community Supporting Statewide Driving Safety Net
Partnerships Power RFP Advocacy RFP Transformation RFP
Support and collaborate Support Partner with Partner with primary
with influential advocacy capacity and statewide advocacy care associations to
national oral health power-building in groups to support strengthen the
and health partners historically underserved policy advocacy capacity of community
to move the needle and/or marginalized efforts driven health centers to
on policies that communities to through collaboration support the oral
will improve the increase their share of and community health needs of their
oral health of all voice in the broken oral partnerships communities
health system
9What We’ve Learned in 2020
Being responsible COVID-19 is not The next 1-2 years
and accountable for gone, its impact will be significant
applying a racial will be long- for state budgets
equity lens is of the lasting. relative to adult
utmost importance. dental benefits.
Community voice, There are broad, New
advocacy, and cross-sectoral Administration
systems-change opportunities for means potential
are critical transformation in new state &
components to the oral health and federal
work. dentistry. opportunities.
102021 GRANTMAKING STRATEGY
112021 Grantmaking Initiatives
Advancing Equity through Oral Health
Emergent and Relief Fund
Community Response Fund
Executive Director's Fund
12Advancing Equity through Oral Health
Support the Oral Drive Federal Strengthen Spread Learning
Health Progress and Oral Health Community Voice Models to the
Equity Network (OPEN) Policy and State Advocacy Broader Safety Net
13Advancing Equity through Oral Health
Support the Oral Health Progress and Equity Network (OPEN)
Goals
• Build upon the infrastructural milestones reached in 2020.
• Support the network and strengthen its independence and collaboration.
• Spread utilization of strategic resources to OPEN members:
• Policy Equity Tool
• OPEN Advocacy Toolkit
Types of Organizations
• This funding area is intended specifically for OPEN Inc. and its fiscal agent, the National Network of
Public Health Institutes.
14Advancing Equity through Oral Health
Drive Federal Oral Health Policy
Goals
• Partner to identify federal oral health policy priorities and opportunities such as, but not limited to, the
inclusion of a comprehensive dental benefit in Medicare
• Collaborate with key national players to realize shared legislative engagement strategies, and new
partnerships to equitably expand the voices at the table such as, but not limited to black,
indigenous and people of color, veterans, and those with disabilities.
• Advance oral health policies related to the equitable implementation of dental care as well as those that
address social risk factors, with a connection to oral health.
Types of Organizations
• Organizations with a national geographic scope
• Other organizations with a federal policy focus
15Advancing Equity through Oral Health
Strengthen Community Voice and State Advocacy
Goals
• Identify and advance state and local oral health policies related to the equitable implementation of dental
care as well as those that address social risk factors, with a connection to oral health.
• Sharpen and expand utilization of a health and/or racial equity lens in oral health systems change.
• Support a diverse and multi-lateral learning community to strengthen the capacity of the DentaQuest
Partnership and our partners to effect change.
Types of Organizations:
• Local and/or community-based organizations
• State policy organizations, and/or state oral health coalitions, in partnership with stakeholder
communities
• Other organizations engaged in local and/or state policy advocacy in partnership with
stakeholder communities
16Advancing Equity through Oral Health
Spread Learning Models to the Broader Safety Net
Goals
• Support the broad integration of oral health into primary care within the safety net and advancement
of oral health value-based care.
• Deepen capacity within the safety net and opportunities for strategic leverage across states that will
advance a new framework for innovating oral health care.
• Advance initiatives including, but not limited to,
• Fostering effective guidelines for • Expanding health information technology
infection control capacity
• Broadening the use of teledentistry • Expanding use of population health
• Piloting value-based metrics management (SDOH or social risk
factors)
Types of Organizations
• Primary Care Associations, Health Care Centered Networks
• Other organizations focused on the safety net or value-based transformation
17Health &
Racial Equity
Cross-cutting
Strategies
Social
Innovation in Determinants
Oral Health Advancing of Oral Health
Equity in
Oral Health
Learning & Community-
Capacity centered
Building Measurement
18Cross-cutting Strategies
Community-
Internal Learning
Health and SDOH and Oral Centered Data Innovation in
and Capacity
Racial Equity Health and Oral Health
Building
Measurement
Account for, Align care, community, Leverage data Center multi-lateral Drive innovation in oral
contextualize, and and policy within a strategies that center learning as a driver of health care delivery in a
address historic strategy that on and are informed by internal and external way that reduces
imbalances in power, operationalizes a multi- communities and capacity-building that inequities and
representation, sectoral approach to expand utilization of strengthens the position increases parity in
infrastructure and addressing social risk community-centered and power of the access and outcomes.
outcomes within all factors and the social data approaches to DentaQuest
systems. determinants of health advance policy and Partnership and our
as a critical part of oral systems change efforts. partners to drive
health value-based systemic change.
care.
19Emergent and Relief Fund
Goal
• Support efforts to address historical and pervasive inequities in the health care system, including the
oral health system, and subsequent health outcomes.
• Drive innovation within the “new normal” dentistry (i.e. teledentistry, infection control) while resourcing
the immediate needs for those communities that are suffering disproportionately
• Respond to immediate needs of communities suffering as a result of unforeseen circumstances (i.e.
displacement due to natural disaster.
Types of Organizations
• Organizations able to redirect funds towards immediate relief efforts
• Organizations with innovative concepts to re-imagine oral health and dentistry
20Other Initiatives
Community Response Fund Executive Director's Fund
Community Response Fund grants are Executive Director’s Fund grants are
generally smaller, one-time awards that generally smaller awards that support
address access to oral health care. The convenings, events and activities that
focus is to support programs, activities promote oral health.
and events that:
Fund investments currently focus on
• Respond to an urgent issue that reducing oral health disparities and
impacts access to clinical care. advancing health and racial equity.
• Provide short term access to needed
care for the underserved.
• Sustain organizations through short
term challenges.
Please note, the DentaQuest Partnership does not make grants directly to
individuals and does not support capital expenses, operating expenses,
direct service, mobile vans, director services or payments for procedures. Applicants
must have 501(c)3 nonprofit status.
212021 Advocacy Priorities of DQP
Active Advocacy Aligned with OPEN and Grantees and Partners
• Priorities aligned with and supportive of 2021 Grant Making Initiatives, Grantees, and Partners
• Advancing Equity through Oral Health
• Support the Oral Health Progress and Equity Network (OPEN)
• Drive Federal Oral Health Policy
– Issues such as, but not limited to, the inclusion of a comprehensive dental benefit in Medicare
• Strengthen Community Voice and State Advocacy
– Advance state and local oral health policies related to the equitable inclusion of dental care in addressing social risk
factors and oral health, including Medicaid.
• Spread Learning Models to the Broader Safety Net
– Champion the safety net as the framework for innovating integrated oral health care.
• Emergent and Relief Fund
• Address historical and pervasive inequities in care and outcomes. Envision and drive innovation within the
“new normal” of dentistry
222021 GRANT APPLICATION
PROCESS
23Grant Submission Process
Concept & Full Proposal
• Create an account with the online
grants management system, Fluxx
Registration
• 500-word description of your proposed project
• Based on the concept, you may be invited to
Concept submit a full proposal*
• Complete full proposal, workplan, evaluation plan,
and budget
Full
Proposal • Opportunity for feedback on drafts during process
* Organizations funded in 2020 do not have to have to complete new concepts, but will have the
opportunity to submit a full proposal for review. 24Accounting for Equity
In 2021, in order to understand, and be accountable for, advancing equitable policies and systems, we are
working to understand the organizations that we are making grants to. Therefore, we will be asking for
non-identifiable data on organizational staff related to the following categories:
• Race/ethnicity
• Gender
• Sexual orientation
• Disability status
25Timeline
Proposals are reviewed on a rolling basis throughout the year, with the first grant review date set aside for
returning applicants.
February 2021
• Dedicated to organizations that were grantees in 2020 Grant Review Calendar
and whose grant has ended February*
• Final Proposal Deadline: February 19th March
April
May
June
March 2021 & Beyond July
September
• Open to previous grantees whose grants have ended
November
and new applicants
• Deadlines: On the way
26Grants Management System
https://dentaquestpartnership.fluxx.io/
1. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A FLUXX ACCOUNT: Using Google Chrome, Safari, or Firefox web-
browser, create an account with the online grants management system, Fluxx, by clicking "Register
Now" in the bottom right-hand corner of the front page.
2. Once you are logged into your account, click the "Apply Now" button in the bottom left-hand corner.
3. Follow the steps to complete your application, noting that you will need to save periodically.
27QUESTIONS
28DentaQuest Partnership Contact Information
Trenae Simpson, MBA Christina Castle
Director of Grants and Programs Grants and Programs Associate
trenae.simpson@dentaquest.com christina.castle@dentaquest.com
M. Parrish Ravelli Faye Hixenbaugh
Grants and Programs Associate Grants and Programs Coordinator
michael.ravelli@dentaquest.org faye.hixenbaugh@dentaquest.com
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