California Dental Association Foundation

The CDA Foundation awards grants to select recent dental school/specialty graduates. These grants facilitate career choices by repaying their educational loan of up to $35,000 per year for a maximum of $105,000 over three years in exchange for a commitment by recipients to care for the underserved. Often, it’s the difference that makes the impossible possible.

Additionally, the Webb Family Grant provides the grant runner-up with an award of up to $5,000 towards education expenses.

Program goals are designed to immediately reduce barriers to access oral health care services in targeted underserved communities and populations as well as establish an ongoing mechanism to provide dental professionals an opportunity to reduce their financial burden while working in these communities.

The Dental Materials and Supplies Grant is a unique program that works in partnership with Henry Schein Cares, epitomizing the combined commitment to give back to the industry and communities in which we serve. Nonprofit organizations have been recipients of the award and received dental supplies that helped allow them to provide dental care for underserved people in their communities.