Is there any grants available to help out those less financially unfortunate?
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The Government has created a portal to help individuals who need benefits because of life events. Visit http://www.govbenefits.gov\n\nUse the drop down button\nDO YOU NEED BENEFITS BECAUSE OF A LIFE EVENT?\nChoose the life situation best applicable to you and then see if you qualify for the available government assistance.\n\nForget grant money - there's hardly any money for individuals. Go to the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) and Grants.gov - these are two sites created by the federal government to provide transparency and information on grants. But you'd be hard pressed to find any grant that would support individuals.\n\nMost of the federal grants are given to specific target groups with specific requirements (e.g. minority business owners involved in transportation related contracts emanating from DOT - Grant#20.905 Disadvantaged Business Enterprises Short Term Lending Program \n\nGrants are also often given to non profit groups or organizations involved in training or other similar activities (grant 59.043 Women's Business Ownership Assistance that are given to those who will create women's business center that will train women entrepreneurs \n\nFor private grants, you may want to check the Foundation Center's Foundation Grants for Individuals Online. It's a subscription based website ($9.95 per month) but their opening blurb only says that the database is ideal for "students, artists, academic researchers, libraries and financial aid offices." Entrepreneurs are apparently not one of them, so I take it they also don't have listings of private foundations who give grants to would-be entrepreneurs.
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Go to http://www.grants.gov/ to see what grants are available, if any, and how you can apply for them.  It's a government site and it's free.
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The Government has created a portal to help individuals who need benefits because of life events. Visit http://www.govbenefits.gov\n\nUse the drop down button\nDO YOU NEED BENEFITS BECAUSE OF A LIFE EVENT?\nChoose the life situation best applicable to you and then see if you qualify for the available government assistance.\n\nForget grant money - there's hardly any money for individuals. Nonetheless, 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 personal reasons.\n\nEven 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. \n\nMost of the federal grants are given to specific target groups with specific requirements (e.g. minority business owners involved in transportation related contracts emanating from DOT - Grant#20.905 Disadvantaged Business Enterprises Short Term Lending Program \n\nGrants are also often given to non profit groups or organizations involved in training or other similar activities (grant 59.043 Women's Business Ownership Assistance that are given to those who will create women's business center that will train women entrepreneurs \n\nFor private grants, you may want to check the Foundation Center's Foundation Grants for Individuals Online. It's a subscription based website ($9.95 per month) but their opening blurb only says that the database is ideal for "students, artists, academic researchers, libraries and financial aid offices."
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contact your financial aid office.  they're the ones who are informed of grants and scholarships etc.
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im very sorry 2 hear you are going throu a hard time, my brothers Law Firm usually gives away some money 2 charities. E-mail me if u live near NYC, maybe i can help
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It seems you are looking for financial assistance (not assistant!).
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There are social services available. Look in the phone book.  Make a few calls. You should be able to get food stamps and other services and moneys to pay at least some bills, like utilities.\nLook for a community help line. They are set up to help people find the services they need.  All too often people wait to call until the situation is in crisis and that could be avoided or lessened if they had just taken the initiative to call sooner.  I do not mean to sound cold, I do care, I just want you to get the phone book out now and have the other adult make some of the calls for you.\nThere may even be some special needs charities.\nIt varies by location. Here we have a group that is just for coordinating all the charity services available and helping people file for help.\nGood luck as you pursue things.
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There is plenty of government funding out there. Call you local social services for adults and they will get you started with the right people for funding. There are other groups and organizations in your local areas. Start by writing alot of letters to group and organization they will help. Good Luck.
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Well as far as financial assistance goes good luck and keep trying. However have you considered changing your lifestyle maybe a small apartment, and other ways to be more efficient. It kinda hard to tell what your situation already is but, but wish you the best of luck.
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You can contact your public assistance office, The good will, the salvation army, or catholic services may help. Been down the same road you are now. Good luck! Also if you call the power company, most times they will be willing to set up payment arrangements.
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try borrowing from prosper.com. It is a people to people lending site that's getting very good reviews. Good luck..
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Hey, brother, can you spare a dime?\n\nThis sounds like a good idea but if I were to do this I'd tend to think of it more as a grant and not expect a repayment.  At the very least you can make a friend and what's wrong with that?
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You can ask your local government or get a loan from them. If all else fails try to sell certain things or have a fund raiser. Contact the local media.
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I'd say the National Lottery, but I'd be very surprised if you find any that will get you the grant within 3 months - they normally require applications further in advice.  How about the local town or county councils?  They normally have an arts fund.
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There are many government grants published on a regular basis for just this very kind of thing. You need to find someone experienced in searching for them and writing grant proposals to donate their time and efforts to your cause.\n\nIn the meantime, talk to the county you're in about programs they have.  Write letters to large corporations like Wal-Mart and other industries in neighboring areas.  They usually have budgets set aside for community activism.
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I would check on line first to see if there were any thing there for free to at least help out some.  Sometimes there are clinics that will work with you on payments as well.
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Ask the school financial aid office for help with loans, grants, scholarships and work study. good luck.