personal grant money
Where can I go and apply for personal grants, and any other grant in the US.?
EXAMPLE :I would like money for college .Grants for students in healthcare and personal money.
The first advice is bad — IGNORE LESKO
Here are what leading publications say about the deceptive claims that Lesko is publishing
From ConsumerAffairs.com http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/lesko_grants.html
Multi-million-dollar advertising and a new book by author Matthew Lesko are peppered with exaggerations and half-truths about government grants, according to a report released by the New York State Consumer Protection Board (“CPB”).
From MSNBC
Agency calls TV money man’s claims deceptive
Consumers warned about government grant giveaways
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6692633/
NY Times
Free Money? Sure. Heard of Food Stamps?
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/13/nyregion/13lesko.html?pagewanted=print&position=
Grants for college education exists but personal grants for whatever purpose you want don’t.
For college grants Check out Federal Student Aid Web Site or FAFSA http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/
I suggest you explore all federal funding and grant options at the Federal Student Aid website http://federalstudentaid.ed.gov/
You may also want to read the Handbook of the Pell Grant — this is an 86 page document that contains everything about the grant
http://ifap.ed.gov/sfahandbooks/attachments/0203Vo3MasterFile.pdf
For personal grants, note that the government is NOT in the business of giving away free money for the sake of giving away money. There are no grants for paying bills, no grants for paying off credit cards, no grants for getting out of debt and no grants for simply fattening your wallet.
Grants are free, but it means OBLIGATION. You will be obligated to do as the grant sets out to do. Grants have objectives, and your purpose must fit the objective of the grant.
For one, you have to write the grant application and the grant application is not a simple document – you have to explain how your purpose for applying for the grant fits well with the objectives set out by the grant.
There is a stringent review process through a committee. You will compete with other applicants for the grant money, and this grant review committee will evaluate the merits of each proposal. Only those that they feel exemplifies the objective of the grant will be approved.
You can go to the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) http://www.cfda.gov and Grants.gov http://www.grants.gov – these are two sites created by the federal government to provide transparency and information on grants. Browse through the listings and see if you can find any grant that would support your purposes.
Even if you buy books on “how to get grants” or list that supposedly has information on grants — all of them are mere rehash of what CFDA has, albeit packaged differently.
