Grants And Loans
Get 3000 Worth Of Free Tutoring For Your Child
The President’s No Child Left Behind initiative offers free tutoring from private companies to school children around the country. See if you are eligible by contacting your local school board or The No Child Left Behind Program at 888-814-NCLB
Visit: www.nochildleftbehind.gov/parents/supplementalservices/index.html
Free Money For Isabel Fixups
remember it is not only FEMA (Federal Energy Management Agency) that has money to fix things up after a hurricane. There is also grant money to fix up your home anytime. Check the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance. This lists all the major federal programs. Look for housing programs at the Departments of Housing and Urban Development, Energy and Agriculture.
Visit: www.cfda.gov
Serve Your Country AND Slash 10000 Off Your Student Loans
Be on your way to loan forgiveness and buff up at the same time! If you join the Army Reserve or the National Guard after graduation, you can receive up to $10,000 to pay off your student loans. If you’re the sort of person who doesn’t mind the occasional brush with death, ask to be stationed in areas of hostility and you could get even more money! For more information contact the United States Army Reserve Command (USARC), 1401 Deshler Street, S.W., Fort McPherson, GA 30330-2000 (800) 359-8483
Wondering Where To Find The Best Customers For Your Business
Or where is the best place to put up a store? Or which surrounding zip codes offer the best potential for increasing sales? Or where to get a list of all the accountants in your area? You don’t have to hire a high priced marketing consultant to get answers to questions like these. You can tap into the government’s rich vein of free marketing data collected by the Bureau of Census and other government agencies. This is where the multi-billion dollar companies get their marketing data and it’s where the high priced consultants also get it and the resell it to clients at outrageous fees. To get detailed information about data available for your state call your local Census State Data Center in your state capital or go to
Visit: www.census.gov/sdc/www/
Money If You Have No Money And Want To Start A Business
these programs are hard to find but we have located over 150 such programs. They are normally non-profit organizations that are trying to help people start their own little small business. You’ll have to do a lot of searching to find them all. A good place to start is a free database that keeps track of some of these groups.
Visit: www.microenterpriseworks.org/services/PYEP/PYEPmain.htm
900 Grants Programs Online FOR FREE
you can apply directly to government grants on-line. This website is a collaborative effort of 26 government agencies to put their grant information on the web. It’s certainly is not everything but it’s a good start.
Visit: www.grants.gov
Money For Teens To Learn To Build Or Fix Up Houses
Young people between the ages of 16 and 24 who are not going to school may be eligible to learn skills in construction and rehabilitation of housing.
Visit: www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/economicdevelopment/programs/youthbuild/index.cfm
Free Prescription Drugs
Drug companies will give certain people who cannot afford their medications their drugs free of charge. Your doctor will likely have to sign a form, and then the company will ship the medications to you or the doctor. I just checked the web site for Phizer and you can have an income up to $25,000 and even get Viagra for free! They are all there except Tap Pharmaceutical. You call them at 800-830-1015. Many state governments also have financial help for prescription drugs free through the Patients Assistance Program.
Money To Develop Rental Housing In Urban Areas
(14.139) Mortgage Insurance – Rental Housing in Urban Renewal Areas
15000 To Improve a New Home
The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency’s Purchasing Improvement program allows borrowers to make up to $15,000 in home improvements in conjunction with the purchase of a home with a PHFA first mortgage loan. Eligible improvements include repairs, alterations or modifications to improve the basic livability, accessibility, energy efficiency or safety of the property.
Visit: www.phfa.org
Free Help Getting Money For A Disability
can start by contacting a free service called The Clearinghouse on Disability Information, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Dept. of Education, 202-205-8241. …… for help with getting money for education and training contact Higher Education and Adult Training for People with Handicaps (HEATH), George Washington University, 800-544-3284
Visit: www.ed.gov/offices/OSERS/
1000000 For Investors To Develop Coops
(14.126) Mortgage Insurance – Cooperative Projects
Save 720 A Year On Medicare
Many people do not take advantage of the Qualified Medicare Beneficiary Program which covers the cost of Medicare Part B premiums. There are income limits you must meet. For more information on the program, contact Medicare at 800-MEDICARE; or go to the following website. You can also learn about the Medicare Drug Card. The New York Medicare Savings Coalition also has information on how to take advantage of the underutilized program that will cover the Medicare Part B premium.
Get Extra Money to Train For a Better Job
You may be able to get up to $10,000, plus travel money, day care money, clothing allowance and more to take a few months to upgrade your skills so you can get a job that pays more. Contact your local One-Stop Career Center to see what money programs are available in your area for training.
400 For Each Course
Infant/Toddler Stipend is a $400 stipend awarded to infant and toddler teachers/providers for each course successfully completed towards the infant and Toddler Technical Certificate of Credit (TCC) at a Georgia technical college. The Infant and Toddler TCC is Georgia’s first statewide formal academic certificate for infant and toddler teachers and has been made possible with funding from DHR. For more information and a stipend application contact Quality Assist, Inc., 17 Executive Park Dr., Suite 150, Atlanta, GA 30329; 404-325-2225; 866-325-1993 (toll-free)
Visit: www.qassist.com
48000 Per Year To Get A Grad Degree
Dream of quitting your dead-end job and getting your master’s in computer science? Earn your master’s or doctorate degree and let the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) pay your way. Through the DHS fellowship program, get your graduate degree in the physical, biological, social, or behavioral sciences – including science policy, engineering, mathematics, or computer science. Have your tuition covered and have money to live on! You must have career and employment goals aligned with the mission and objectives of the DHS, but you are not required to accept a position with them following graduation. To learn how you can get your advanced degree paid for, contact the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Visit: 12.46.245.173/pls/portal30/CATALOG.PROGRAM_TEXTRPT.SHOW?p_arg_names=prog_nbr&p_arg_values=97.062
It Pays To Have Your Own Business
a new report by the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University shows that our country has just come out of a recession. In every past recession since WWII the amount of extra money the economy made was split in the following way: about 61% went to wages for employees and about 24% went to corporate profits and income to small business owners. In the most recent recovery in 2002 and 2003, only 38% went to employee wages and 52% went to small business owners and corporate profits
60000 For Renters Homeowners Or Investors To Improve Their Property
(14.142) Property Improvement Loan Insurance for Improving All Existing Structures and Buildings of New Nonresidential Structures
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.
Get 4 Interest Rate Reduction Subsidy
Called The Interest Assistance Program and referred to as Program #10.437 in the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance, this program provides a 4 percent subsidy to farmers and ranchers, who do not qualify for standard commercial credit. Guaranteed loans are serviced by a lender who has entered into a Lenders Agreement with the agency. The total loan limit for a guaranteed loan cannot exceed $731,000. 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
Cars Available At Steep Discounts
Vehicles for Change solicits donations of used cars from the community and rehabs the vehicles for resale to eligible individuals and families. Vehicles for Change repairs the donated cars in partnership with Precision Tune and CertiPro Warehouse and provides them to qualified families for a nominal fee of $700-$950. Each recipient receives a 12-month loan to assist in the purchase of the car. Contact: Northern Virginia Family Services, Inc. 9842 Business Way, Manassas, VA 20110, 703-392-4901; Vehicles for Change Phone: (703) 533-2543
Visit: www.nvfs.org/vehicle.htm
The IRS Wants To Give You 700
if you are one of the 115,000 taxpayers whose advance child care tax credit check was returned as undeliverable. They are sitting on over $118 million. It’s easy to see if there is a check waiting for you.
Nurses Receive Financial Help for Bills
The Nurses House financial awards assist with such needs as rent or mortgage payments, food, utilities, telephone and health insurance. When possible, Nurses House attempts to assist applicants in identifying other potential sources of assistance. Awards will vary depending on the applicant’s level of need. Contact: Nurses House, Inc., 2113 Western Ave., Ste. 2, Guilderland, NY 12084-9501; (518) 456-7858; Fax: (518) 452-3760
Visit: www.nurseshouse.org/
No Money? No Insurance
Find over 6,000 sources of free doctor care, prescription drugs, health care products, services and treatment in my book Free Health Care.
Pick Up an Extra 500 to Pay Food Bills
if you are having a bad month and made only $1,000 this month as a single person or you are a family of four and made less than $2,100. This is what you can get from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Program. Millions must be eligible and never apply. We’ve all had a bad couple of months once in a while. See what the requirements are in your state to get this help
Visit: www.cbpp.org/8-25-03fa.htm