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( feATure sTory ) The Cleveland Foundation Invests $200,000 in UA The University of Akron Foundation (UARF) was awarded a grant of $200,000 from The Cleveland Foundation to support the Innovation Fund Alliance, a collaboration between UA and Lorain County Community College designed to aid technologybased economic development in Northeast Ohio. The funding is part of $14.8 million in grants awarded by the Cleveland Foundation under its “economic transformation” program, which supports early stage technology-based entrepreneurs and emerging businesses in the region. Start up companies that receive grants from the Innovation Fund agree to provide an entrepreneurial educational experience for students from local colleges and universities, including student internships and and entrepreneurship teaching activities. “We’re very pleased with this round of grants to be able to meet many of the community’s immediate needs while also continuing to invest in the region’s future,” said Robert Eckardt, senior vice president for programs and evaluation at the Cleveland Foundation. Established in 1914, The Cleveland Foundation is the world’s first community foundation and the nation’s third-largest today, with assets of $1.6 billion and 2008 grants of $84 million. The foundation improves the lives of Greater Clevelanders by building community endowment, addressing needs through grantmaking, and providing leadership on vital issues. |9| A MAgAzine for AluMni & friends of The universiT y of Akron The University of Akron’s College of Nursing has been awarded a $1.06 million, three-year grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for a pilot program that aims to improve the oral health of lowincome pregnant women, mothers and children in Summit and Portage counties.. UA is teaming up with the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) to identify mothers interested in taking part in the program. Participants will receive oral health education, referrals to area dentists and services such as fluoride varnishes for the children. “Oral health is so closely tied to general health that we simply can’t ignore it,” says Dr. N. Margaret Wineman, dean of UA’s College of Nursing. “Providing oral health care to the underserved can narrow a profound existing gap in quality of health between socio-economic classes.” Dr. Diana Biordi, associate dean of research and graduate programming in UA’s College of Nursing, will manage the interdisciplinary program, which will rely on nurses to provide health care and education and nutritionists to provide nutrition counseling and education. UA nursing faculty members Dr. Marlene Huff and Dr. Peg DiMarco, nationally recognized oral health experts, will be key nurses on the project, while UA family and consumer science professors and dietitians Dr. Deborah Marino and Evelyn Taylor will provide nutrition support to the project. Dr. Peter Leahy, director of public service research and training at UA, will lead an evaluation of the study. “The opportunity to establish an interdisciplinary partnership within the university allows our faculty and students to effectively model the next wave of health care,” notes Dr. James Lynn, interim dean of UA’s College of Health Science and Human Services. UA nursing and dietetic students will play a key role in administering the fluoride varnishes and working face-to-face with WIC mothers and children to promote good oral health. “From a researcher’s perspective, this grant will allow us to gather comprehensive data and track children — especially very young children for whom data are difficult to find — for three and half years,” says Biordi. “But from a practical perspective, by training more nurses and nutritionists to provide oral health services and education, we hope to provide a much needed service and improve W.K. KeLLogg FoUndAtIon the overall health of the poor, Established in 1930, the W.K. Kellogg who have traditionally been an Foundation supports children, families underserved population.” and communities as they strengthen and About 4,000 children in Summit and Portage counties create conditions that propel vulnerable will have the opportunity to children to achieve success as individuals benefit from this pilot program. and as contributors to the larger community If successful, program organizers and society. Grants are concentrated in hope to expand the program to the United States, Latin America and the other WIC organizations in Ohio Caribbean, and southern Africa. and throughout the nation. www.uakron.edu College of Nursing to Improve Oral Health of Low-Income Children with Grant

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