Smile TrainCall for Grant Applications

Thanks to a generous grant from Smile Train, the Plastic Surgery Foundation announces this “Call for Grant Applications” for members conducting service missions to developing countries in 2011.

Smile Train, Inc., a not-for-profit charitable organization, and the Plastic Surgery Foundation (PSF), a not-for-profit education and research organization, have established this program to expand care to children requiring cleft lip and palate surgery in developing countries.

This program will provide funds for individual physicians and other not-for-profit organizations in need of supplemental funding to defray costs associated with conducting service missions. It will also allow for capital expenditures to purchase needed equipment, as well as limited educational materials for host surgeons and facilities. The overarching goal is to assist established service missions increase the number of children that can have access to surgical care for cleft lip and palate repair.

Grants will be considered up to $25,000.

General Eligibility

Awards are made to sponsoring organizations or individuals. Team Leaders should be ASPS members actively involved in cleft care. If the Team Leader is not an ASPS member, Teams must minimally include an ASPS member participating in the scheduled service mission. Support surgical team members must be board certified or board eligible in their specialty. Teams must focus 50% or greater on cleft care.

In addition, the grant recipient trip cannot be to a site where a Smile Train partner is located. See www.smiletrain.org for a list of locations. The Service Mission Team must have conducted a minimum of 3 successful missions.

How To Apply

Interested members can download the Grant Application and Guidelines from this site. All requests must be submitted on the official Grant Application with supporting documentation and sent to:

Mail:
PSEF Volunteers in Plastic Surgery Committee
444 E. Algonquin Road
Arlington Heights, IL 60005

Or Email: Amy Papoccia

Supporting documentation should include an estimated budget as outlined on the application, or attached as a separate document. A telephone conference call will be part of the application process.

Compliance

Individuals applying for the grants understand they must provide PSF with a final written report of the mission AND enter patient data into the Smile Train “Smile Train Express” data collection repository. In addition, recipients must agree to comply with the Smile Train Guidelines for Missions. Review of the VIPS Guidelines for Missions and Smile Train Safety and Quality Improvement Protocol is strongly encouraged.

Mark R. Migliori, MD, Chair
PSF Volunteers in Plastic Surgery Committee

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