Recent Grants

Diamond Society event raises funds for CDS Foundation

Foundation | Diamond Celebration Photo

Among the attendees at a June 16 reception for Chicago Dental Society Foundation donors are (L-R) Dr. Mary Starsiak, CDS Foundation board member; Dr. David Kumamoto, 2009 CDS president; Carolyn Van Eck, CDS Foundation board member and vice president for finance and legal affairs at GC America Inc.; Dr. Barbara Mousel, chair of the CDS Foundation board; and Rodney Watt, executive director of the CDS Foundation. More than 50 supporters of the CDS Foundation attended the Diamond Society Event held at Dr. Kumamoto’s home and sponsored by GC America Inc.

2010 Chicago Dental Society Foundation grants

Foundation | MOM 1  Foundation | MOM 4

Foundation | MOM 2  Foundation | MOM 3

The Chicago Dental Society Foundation gave a $40,000 donation to help fund the Illinois Mission of Mercy campaign, which hosted an event in June to donate dental services to patients in need.

Volunteers at the Illinois Mission of Mercy (MOM), organized by the Illinois State Dental Society and the Illinois State Dental Society Foundation, treated more then 1,900 dental patients June 11 and 12 at the Interstate Center in Bloomington. Numerous CDS members were among the many volunteers delivering care. In addition to dentists, hygienists, assistants, lab technicians and laypersons were involved in the effort. The organizers sought more then 600 volunteers for the event.

Dental care delivered included 1,365 fillings, 43 stainless steel crowns, 72 endodontic procedures, 155 lab services and 1,739 extractions.

2009 Chicago Dental Society Foundation grants

Among them, the CDS Foundation endowed chairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Dentistry and the Southern Illinois University (SIU) School of Dental Medicine. UIC will receive $500,000 for the Chicago Dental Society Endowed Fellowship Fund. SIU will receive $250,000 for the Chicago Dental Society Professorship in Clinical Dentistry Endowment Fund.

An additional $60,000 in grant funding was divided among:

  • $7,500 to Northwest Community Hospital (NCH) Mobile Dental Clinic, of Arlington Heights
  • $5,000 to Northwest Community Hospital (NCH) Fixed Dental Clinic, of Arlington Heights 
  • $7,500 to Erie Family Health Center, of Chicago
  • $7,500 to The Children’s Clinic, Oak Park River Forest Infant Welfare Society, of Oak Park
  • $5,000 to St. Bernard Hospital and Health Care Center, of Chicago
  • $5,000 to Oral Health America, of Chicago
  • $2,500 to Heartland International Health Center, of Chicago
  • $7,500 to the Free People’s Clinic at St. Basil’s Church, of Chicago
  • $5,000 to the Illinois Foundation of Dentistry for the Handicapped’s Dental HouseCalls Program, of Northbrook
  • $7,500 to the Illinois Foundation of Dentistry for the Handicapped’s Donated Dental Services Program, of Northbrook