Saturday, August 8, 2009

I was on my yahoo email and saw a ad for i think it was geoffreys blog for goverment grants is it real or fake?

SCAM SCAM SCAM





You may also want to read the warnings FTC has issued against these "grant" companies:





http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2004/03/grantreso...


http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer...





Here is also one of the warnings issued by the Better Business Bureau http://www.concord.bbb.org/tips_timeshar...





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. Once you find a grant where you can qualify, apply for it at Grants.gov





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.





Note though that these grants generally support non-profit organizations, intermediary lending institutions, and state and local governments. Most 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. Individuals especially for personal purposes are not eligible for federal grants.





Grants 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

I was on my yahoo email and saw a ad for i think it was geoffreys blog for goverment grants is it real or fake?
The U.S. government does not give free grant money to individuals. Grants are mainly for non-profit organizations. Those ads you are seeing are very misleading. You can read more on the 'free' federal grant myth at http://www.federalgrants.com/free-federa...
Reply:Here's a general rule of thumb:





If it's in an ad, it's fake. Especially if it contains the words:





"free"


"cash"


"survey"


"win"





etc.

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