ADEAGies Foundation

**Welcome to the ADEAGies Foundation®** The ADEAGies Foundation is uniquely positioned to identify and promote innovative, future-ready oral health initiatives that advance dental education and elevate the dental professions. Across the dental, allied dental and advanced dental education community, our diverse ranks—comprised of dental school deans and program directors; faculty; students, residents and fellows; and corporate and philanthropic partners—allow us to tap a tremendous breadth of knowledge, ability and perspective to develop leaders who can grow their capacity to lead academic dentistry amidst change. Positioned to serve as an incubator of innovation, the ADEAGies Foundation structures its philanthropic work around actionable foci—leadership training for active and emergent academic leaders and teaching and learning that produces future-ready dental school graduates—centered on advancing dental education. **About ADEAGies Foundation®** **The Power of Dental Educators** **When dental educators engage with wider communities we change the status of our nation's oral health** The **ADEAGies Foundation®** is uniquely positioned to uncover and promote innovative, future-ready oral health initiatives that advance dental education and elevate the dental professions. We do so by supporting grants, programs, scholarships and special initiatives that develop leaders in academic dentistry and ensure a robust future faculty. As the **philanthropic arm of the American Dental Education Association (ADEA)**, the Foundation draws upon ADEA’s vast expertise and network of dental deans, allied program directors, faculty, students, residents and fellows, corporate and philanthropic partners to bring its agenda to life.