Background
The North Carolina Oral Health Collaborative (NCOHC) — a program of the Foundation for Health Leadership & Innovation (FHLI) — has pursued an approach to advancing oral health care access and equity through policy-driven systems change, accomplishing multiple legislative and regulatory changes affecting oral health care delivery, workforce, and payment in recent years. This work has been supported by forward-thinking funders that have largely replaced portfolios focused on limited, "static" programs with ones emphasizing systems-level reform. NCOHC is committed to helping other oral health coalitions, state agencies, community-based organizations (CBOs), public-private partnerships, and funders advance this approach in their respective states.　

Purpose
• To educate oral health coalitions, state agencies, CBOs, public-private partners, and current and potential funders on the importance of systems-level reform in advancing oral health care access and equity.
• To equip grant-seeking organizations with the strategies and tactics necessary to pursue related funding.