Grants And Loans

Achievement Award + Cash Award for Charity

The Heinz Family Foundation R.O.S.E. Achievement Award recognizes a woman survivor of violence for her work and achievements in the area of ending violence against women. The recipient’s choice of nonprofit organization receives the cash award. Contact: The R.O.S.E. Fund, Inc., (formerly Ryka Rose Foundation), 175 Federal St., Ste. 455, Boston, MA 02110; (617) 482-5400; Fax: (617) 482-3443

Visit: rosefund@ici.net.

3000 For Victims of Crime

… .. Maybe crime really does pay. There are all kinds of money and services available if you have been a victim of crime. You can get emergency money, living expenses, money to replace loss of pay, free cell phones, free therapy, and lots more. The U.S. Dept. of Justice has set up a database that allows you to search for these services in your area.

Visit: ovc.ncjrs.org/findvictimservices/search.asp

Don’t Wait ’til 2006 for Free Drugs

Or, if you are a senior having trouble paying for your Viaga or any other prescription drug, you don’t have to worry about how much in premiums you are going to pay for in the new Medicare Prescription drug program that only pays a portion of your drugs costs anyway, and doesn’t even start until 2006. There are current programs at state governments and even from the drug companies themselves where you can be making up to $40,000 a year, at any age, and get all of your prescription drugs for free right now.

Visit: www.phrma.org/pap/

Save 250 On A Speeding Ticket

Even the most elaborate of modern technology isn’t always 100% perfect all of the time. The report Police Traffic Radar, published in 1980, is still accurate and shows that all police radar tracking devices are not accurate all of the time. Such evidence can be helpful in the defense of your case. The laboratory also has information regarding alcohol breath testing devices, including Breath Alcohol Sampling Simulator for Qualification Testing of Breath Alcohol Measurement Devices. Both publications are free. Contact: Office of Law Enforcement Standards, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Dr., Building 225, Room A-323, Gaithersburg, MD 20899; 301-975-2757

Visit: www.nist.gov; www.nist.gov/public_affairs/faqs/qpubs.htm

50000 to 500000 In Grants to Start A Day Care Center

in Pennsylvania if you are a non-profit organization and want to help families who need day care services. The money can be used for most anything in starting or expanding a day care center. And if you are not a non-profit, it doesn’t matter. The government will help you become one for next to nothing. Tell this office you are also looking the state’s small business development center’s office.

Visit: www.inventpa.com/default.aspx?id=290

Get A 5000 Grant To Help You Write A Grant

that’s what the State of Arizona gives to small businesses to help them get a $250,000 federal government grant to work on their invention. We can all use help in getting grants, especially the big ones. See if your state office of economic development offers this kind of grant to help you get a grant.

Visit: www.azcommerce.com/webapps/press/current_release.asp?sID=217

Your City and County Governments

Local development groups, national and local non-profits and countless other non-governmental organizations offer free money, low interest loans and free services to entrepreneurs. We have even identified 150 such groups that offer money just to entrepreneurs that have no money. These can be the most difficult to find. Look at this database of non-profits that help entrepreneurs But don’t stop there. There are thousands more. Check your local library to see if they can help.

Visit: www.microenterpriseworks.org/nearyou/

1000000 to Purchase or Fix Up Rental Housing in Small Towns

Called the Rural Rental Housing Loans Programs and referred to as Program #10.415 in the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance, it provides economically designed and constructed rental and cooperative housing and related facilities suited for rural residents. Loans can be used to construct, or to purchase and substantially rehabilitate rental or cooperative housing or to develop manufactured housing projects. Housing as a general rule will consist of multi-units with two or more family units and any appropriately related facilities. Funds may also be used to provide approved recreational and service facilities appropriate for use in connection with the housing and to buy and improve the land on which the buildings are to be located. Loans may not be made for nursing, special care, or institutional-type homes).Contact your local office of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Housing Service

Visit: offices.usda.gov/scripts/ndISAPI.dll/oip_public/USA_map