Beach Health Clinic will be able to treat more Virginia Beach patients who can't afford dental care. (Photo by Glen McClure)
have teamed up to award $50,000 in grants to expand free dental care for low-income residents of South Hampton Roads. Grants were awarded recently to four area nonprofits:
Beach Health Clinic Chesapeake Care
Hampton Roads Community Health Center
People in Need (PIN Ministry).
"This is the first time the Community Foundation and the United Way have joined forces with a single proposal request," says Dr. Deborah M. DiCroce, president and CEO of the Hampton Roads Community Foundation. "We are leveraging the strengths of two long-standing organizations and modeling the power of collaboration to improve life for area individuals with tremendous dental needs and no resources to address them."
"Many of us have never known what it is like to live with constant dental pain and to be embarrassed by not having teeth," says Carol McCormack, United Way of South Hampton Roads president and CEO. "We are thrilled to work with the Community Foundation as partners tackling one of our community's most significant needs."
Read our latest Hampton Roads Community Foundation annual report. Featured on the cover is a photo by Glen McClure of the Tidewater Wooden Boat Workshop, which teaches area teens practical and life skills as they build wooden rowboats.
