ARRA: Dental Faculty Loan Repayment

The summary for the ARRA: Dental Faculty Loan Repayment Federal Grant is detailed below. It contains information such as the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number, who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, important deadlines, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed in the Grant Announcement Contact section. If these sections are incomplete, please visit the website of the government agency that is offering this grant.


	Federal Grant Title:	ARRA: Dental Faculty Loan Repayment
	CFDA Number:	93.403
	CFDA Description:	ARRA - Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry
	Federal Agency Name:	Health Resources and Services Administration
	Category of Funding Activity:	Health
	Category Explanation:	Information not provided
	Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
	Funding Opportunity Number:	HRSA-10-260
	Document Type:	Modification to Previous Grants Notice
	Funding Instrument Type:	Grant
	Posted Date:	Apr 28, 2010
	Creation Date:	Apr 28, 2010
	Original Closing Date for Applications:	May 28, 2010
	Current Closing Date for Applications:	May 28, 2010
	Archive Date:	Jul 27, 2010
	Expected Number of Awards:	20
	Estimated Total Program Funding:	$2,500,000
	Federal Grant Award Ceiling:	Information not provided
	Federal Grant Award Floor:	Information not provided
	Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	No

Applicants Eligible for this Grant: Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility: Entities eligible for grants to support training in general, pediatric, or public health dentistry include entities that have programs in dental or dental hygiene schools; or have approved residency or advanced education programs in the practice of general, pediatric, or public health dentistry. Therefore, for the purposes of this announcement, the use of "general, pediatric, and public health dentistry", "primary care dentistry" and "dental faculty" shall include dental hygiene unless otherwise noted. Grants may be made to accredited dental or dental hygiene schools, public or private not-for-profit hospitals, or other pubic or not for profit entities to plan, develop, and operate, or participate in, an approved professional training program in the field of general dentistry, pediatric dentistry, public health dentistry, or dental hygiene for dental or dental hygiene students, dental residents, practicing dentists or dental hygienists, or other approved primary care dental trainees, that emphasizes training in general, pediatric, or public health dentistry. Eligible entities may partner with schools of public health for the education of dental students, residents or dental hygiene students for a master's in public health in an accredited program. Training activities must be conducted by an accredited entity; therefore, either the applicant or a partner organization responsible for the dental or dental hygiene training must be accredited.
Grant Description: A grant may be awarded to a program of general, pediatric, or public health dentistry described in subsection to plan, develop, and operate a loan repayment program under which individuals agree to serve full-time as faculty members; and the program of general, pediatric or public health dentistry agrees to pay the principal and interest on the outstanding student loans of the individuals.
Link to Full Grant Announcement: https://grants.hrsa.gov/webexternal/sfo.asp?id=e19250e8-5d78-4bc4-ad87-3f5ecfb69aa2
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Similar Government Grants: • ARRA: Faculty Development in General, Pediatric, and Public Health Dentistry and Dental Hygiene; • ARRA: Postdoctoral Training in General, Pediatric, and Public Health Dentistry and Dental Hygiene; • ARRA: Predoctoral Training in General, Pediatric, and Public Health Dentistry and Dental Hygiene; • ARRA - Training in Primary Care Medicine: Administrative Academic Units in Primary Care; • ARRA - Training in Primary Care Medicine: Physician Faculty Development in Primary Ca; • ARRA - Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry: Pre-doctoral Training in Primary Care; • Recovery Act -ARRA - Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry: Administrative Academic Units; • ARRA - Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry: Physician Faculty Development in Primary Ca; • ARRA - Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry: Physician Assistant Training in Primary Care; • ARRA - Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry: Residency Training in Primary Care