Grants And Loans
20000 For African American Entrepreneurs Under 30
.is available from the Miller Brewing Company. Every year they give out 6 grants at $20,000 each and 12 more at $2,500 each. One of the grant awardees last year was April Patrick of April Films in New York.
Visit: www.aprilfilms.net
13000 Lump Sum Student Loan Forgiveness
This program is offered to first, second or third year primary care medical residents who plan to practice full-time in an underserved urban area in Minnesota. Selected participants are eligible for four years of loan forgiveness. During each year that a participant serves as a physician in an underserved urban area for a minimum of 30 hours per week for up to four years, the ORHPC will pay directly to the participant an annual lump sum of approximately $13,000. To learn more contact the Minnesota Department of Health, Office of Rural Health and Primary Care, Attn: Loan Forgiveness Program Officer, P.O. Box 64975, St. Paul, MN 55164-0975; (800) 366-5424
Free Help Starting your Daycare
Fourteen Resource and Referral Agencies are located in Georgia to provide assistance in the start up of childcare centers. Help includes first aid and CPR training, consultations on planning day to day activities, and more. The closest one to Trion is: Child Care Resource and Referral Agency, 1202 N. Tennessee St., Cartersville, GA 30120; 770-387-0828
Visit: www.ganet.org/gccc/randr
10000 To Finish Your Degree
Talbot’s, a leading women’s clothing store, gives scholarships of $10,000 to five outstanding women who are determined to finish their college degree. Fifty additional candidates receive $1,000. The Talbot’s Women’s Scholarship Fund is open to women who are enrolled in a four-year or two-year college, university, or vocational school and have at least two remaining semesters to complete their degree. The applicant must have earned their high school diploma or GED before 1994. Only the first 1,000 applicant’s entries are considered. For more information, go to the Talbot’s Scholarship Fund website. The new application will be available in the fall of 2004.
Free Help With Health Insurance
if you are looking for coverage, or looking to solve a problem with Medicaid, Medicare or a private health insurance company there are groups throughout the country that will help you enforce your rights and get you satisfaction. See the Health Insurance Partnership at Families USA
1000000 For Investors To Develop Coops
(14.126) Mortgage Insurance – Cooperative Projects
Free Classes At Work To Become A Registered Nurse
if you work for one of the Dallas hospitals in the Texas Health Resources system. They pay for your classes and you take courses during work and wind up a registered nurse. It’s a way to increase the needed supply of nurses.
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
Money to Fix Up Apartment Buildings
Called The Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act and referred to as Program #14.197 in the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance, it provides grants to retain critical affordable housing resources represented by the supply of FHA-insured Section 8 assisted housing and maintain it in good physical and financial condition while, at the same time, reducing the cost of the ongoing Federal subsidy. In carrying out the Program, HUD works with willing participating administrative entities (PAEs), owners and lenders to reduce Section 8 rents and operating expenses to true market levels and also provide for the project’s capital improvement needs. Contact your local office of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
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
500000 If You Can’t Make A Profit On Your Apartment Building
(14.167) Mortgage Insurance-Two Year Operating Loss Loans, Section 223
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
Add A Kids Room For Free
Building Together is a non-profit organization that fixes up homes for free. To see if you qualify contact 800-4-REHAB-9.
Visit: www.rebuildingtogether.com/find_program_near_you/index.shtml
An Extra 20000 for All Kinds of Problems
Everyone won’t get $20,000 for just anything. But there are over 1,000 community action agencies that offer money to people in need for all kinds of reasons: day care, food, rent, housing, fuel bills, repairs, auto, etc. To find a community action agency near you contact Community Action Partnership, 1100 17th St., NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-265-7546, fax: 202-265-8850
100000 To Help You Get More Government Money
it’s not strange, it’s the government. The U.S. Dept. Transportation (DOT) has money to give small businesses who are trying to figure out how to sell their products and services to the government. This is how the government works. You don’t have to understand it, you just have to use it. If you have a product or service to sell, see if you can get money to figure out how to sell it to the DOT.
Create Your Family Tree
Tracing your family history has been made much easier with the creation of the American Immigration Family History Center at Ellis Island. Once you get to the website at www.ellisisland.org, all you need to do is create a user name and password, then you can conduct passenger searches. By typing in a last name, you will find all the names from ship passenger logs that matched. The passenger’s name, country of origin, age, and date of arrival are shown to help you create your family tree. You can then purchase the ship logs online. It couldn’t be easier!
Visit: www.ellisisland.org
Get A 7500 Grant To Fix Up Your Home
…. if you are over 62 years of age and don’t live in a big city. It’s called the Section 504 program run by the Rural Housing Service of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Be sure to read the small print. It says loans and GRANTS.
Visit: www.rurdev.usda.gov/rhs/ProgramBriefs/brief_repairloan.htm
Here’s Money To Build Or Fix Up Apartment Buildings
from the state of Missouri if you are a for-profit or non-profit. They can be apartments for the rich but you have to be interested in building apartments for middle income or lower income people.
Visit: www.mhdc.com/rental_production/prod_and_preservation.htm
Get 5000 To Send Your Child To A Private K 12 School
There are now over 100 programs around the country offering money to families that want to send their children to a private kindergarten, grade school or high school. Here is a list to get started at
Visit: www.childrenfirstamerica.org/programs/programsindex.htm
25000 at 0 To Improve Your Home
that’s what homeowners living in Michigan can get! But that’s not the only place in the country that offers money like this. See what kind of goodies your local government offers at
Don’t Hire Anyone To Collect Your Past Child Support
……. because the same people who brought you Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom will liberate your child support for free. learn how private child support collection agencies can be big rip offs.
Visit: www.childsupport-aces.org/
No Down Payment and 3 Interest Loans
if you use your sweat-equity as a down payment. You can use your labor to work on your new house as your down payment if you live in Sacramento, California . See Self-Help Builder Assistance program, California Housing Finance Agency
Money To Build Rental Units In Small Towns
(10.438) Section 538 Rural Housing Guaranteed Loans
Visit: www.rurdev.usda.gov/
Scholarships For Early Care Educators and Providers
SCHOLARSHIPS is a statewide program that provides financial support for early care and education professionals so that they may expand their education in order to give high quality care to children in Georgia. The program provides scholarships for GED or remedial classes; technical colleges or other public or private accredited institutions to earn credit in early care and education or child development programs. Programs from a CDA through a Masters are eligible. The program also provides for a support stipend to go toward the cost of books, travel, school materials, and other similar expenses. Scholarships for Masters programs have a maximum of $1,000 per academic year. Early care and education directors, teachers, administrators, owners, and staff that work a minimum of 25 hours per week in a registered family child care home or child care center are eligible to apply. Applicants must also apply for Hope and Pell grants. SCHOLARSHIPS are awarded on a first come, first serve basis. For more information, Smart Start Georgia, 175 Twinnett Dr., Suite 370, Lawrenceville, GA 30045; 888-405-2238; 770-339-5199/5208
Visit: www.smartstartga.org
Get All Your Grant Questions Answered On October 18
I’ll be in Baltimore, live, to answer all your questions in a friendly small group at a ridiculously low price. Sign up now and save even more.
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