Government Grants 2

This writer as promised has decided to do a follow up article concerning the numerous government grants that are readily available to help those seeking assistance with starting a new business, writing and education. As was mentioned in article one of this series, not all sites you may research are up to the level of honesty we hope to find when searching for grants. So let’s take the hard work of sorting through the pages of the countless sites to see which of them are legit totally away.

I received some really great advice from a friend of mine while researching ways in which to accomplish this for you the readers. My friend is a school teacher that has had to rely on the grant system for several years. She said, “If you want to make sure your dealing directly with the government on issues of this sort then make sure the site you go to has (. gov) at the end of it.”  “This will let you know that you dealing directly with the government agencies and not with someone trying to sell you something.” That was some really awesome advice. By doing this you cut out the middleman and save yourself some wasted time as well as out of pocket money.

In this writer’s opinion, the best site to use would be the www.grants.gov site as you are indeed dealing directly with the government agencies involved with issuing the numerous grants that are out there waiting for you to apply for. If you decide to go this route you will find some really interesting links there to click onto. These links including the updated forms you may need when asking for the grants you’re wishing to apply for and are very user friendly.

A good example of this would be to look at the sidebar on the site above and take a look at it. You will be quite amazed at what you will discover when you click on the links there. You also need not worry about the age old question, “Are they up to date?” While researching this article, this is exactly what I did. This writer noticed that if he looked, that there were several quick links on this page. There is also a new addition called a Grant Blog. I would also encourage you to take a moment and sign up for their quarterly news letter which is also really useful too.

I was especially pleased to find that the page on the site was extremely easy to understand and to work with. The page here has several bullet links that will take you directly to the page you’re interested in looking at and not like some other sites that send you all over the place and eventually in circles. You will find that some of these links you will need such as, Grant search, Grant E mail Alert, Get Registered, Applicant log in and several others that may be of interest to you.

You may find it interesting to learn that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services are the managing partner for Grants dot Com. As stated at this site : “This initiative is having an unparalleled impact on the grant community as a whole.” In this writer’s next article in this series, he will discuss with you the readers how to apply for and request the grants and proper types of grants you may need. As with everything, there is a right way and wrong way to ask for a grant.

I hope that this article has in some small way been useful in helping those that could use a grant to help them in their personal endeavors as they move forward in the fields they have chosen. Please do leave your comments or questions concerning this article and also click the “I Like” button at the site, (if it’s working). If you feel its worthy to be stumbled then please by all means do so as this is meant to help any that may be thinking along the lines of obtaining a grant. We as a writer’s community need to stand together; divided we fall and also lose our voices.