Seven topics that show up in the public conversation about dental philanthropy and oral cancer prevention: Oral Awareness, Dental Engagement, Social Strategy, Grant Funding, Patient Advocacy, Academic Dentistry, and Early Detection. Each circle is one of those topics, sized by how much it holds the conversation together. Hover any circle or topic name to read what is being said there. Click to pin. The dashed crimson lines mark three conversations that aren’t connecting.
In this conversation, two words dominate: foundation and cancer. AGDF barely registers. Dental is the next most common word. AGDF appears only as a minor term inside the Oral Awareness topic and never reaches the center, and the awareness message has no way to reach an audience. The dashed crimson lines mark three conversations that are not happening. The first, Grant Funding and Patient Advocacy, is the biggest gap: the funders who write the checks aren’t hearing the patient stories that fund-raising works on. The second: Oral Awareness and Grant Funding do not connect, so AGDF runs awareness work that no funder pays for. The third runs from Oral Awareness to Social Strategy. The mission is real, but the way AGDF describes it does not reach the funders.