Thursday, December 10, 2009

Grants For School Athletes?



Grants? Are there any for college students?

Of course the answer is yes!

A lot of students are looking for ways to make money in order to pay their way through school. They see a lot of ads for "how to make free money but they should know that there are legitimate ways to be able to pay for their college expenses.

It is possible that a student-athlete may be eligible to receive grant funding in order to pay his way through school. This grant funding can include ALL or part of the educational expenses associated with tuition, fees, room, board, and required course-related books.

These kinds of grants awarded for one year or less and may not be canceled during the award period unless one of the exceptions applies.



For example there is one state university that offers athletic scholarships in 26 sports for students that qualify.

The head coach of each sport may request a full scholarship that covers tuition and fees, room and board, and books. Partial scholarships cover a portion of one or more of these expenses. All scholarships are awarded for a period of one year. The school may choose to award an athletic student a scholarship for summer school, but the school is not obligated to do so. The policies and procedures about this kind of funding can be found by clicking here. Students who are seeking grants and scholarships for college are encouraged to contact the financial aid office of their school when they are looking for grants for college.

Did you know that some college scholarship can be renewed? Notification of renewals can be sent to scholarship recipients themselves prior to the academic year in which it is to be effective. Information concerning the signing of renewal scholarships can be provided by the school at certain events.

Your school's financial aid office may offer a variety of grant, work, and loan programs to give financial options to all families, no matter what their need or resources. Students should file for a free application for student aid. This FREE application is used nationwide to determine aid eligibility by collecting income, asset, and demographic data about the student and family. To find out more about the types of financial aid available visit the financial aid office's website. If you are unable to file the online student aid application then you may obtain a paper application from your high school or college, and mail it to the federal government’s web site. However filing your student aid application online is faster and more accurate!

Four to six weeks after you submit your student aid application, you should receive a report. This report will list all the information you reported on your student aid application. Possible errors will be bold in print. Students should review their entire student aid application carefully to make sure that all information that they have provided is accurate! If corrections are needed then you should follow the instructions on the student aid application form.

At the time that you get your student aid report the same information will be released electronically. This information is used to determine your eligibility for a variety of financial aid programs.

Additional college scholarships can be found by using a free search service that is provided online for FREE! Two scholarship searches that are recommended can be found by clicking here. After entering information about your background, educational goals, and interests, you will be given a list of organizations that offer scholarships for which you may be eligible. Remember that search services provide only a preliminary match. You must complete any applications and other requirements, and meet specific deadlines in order to be considered.

The Announcement of a fund for special assistance!

A special fund has been established for student-athletes who may need financial assistance where there are needs of an emergency of an essential nature for which financial assistance is not already yet available. Eligible athletic students (except non-qualifiers in their initial year of residence), athletic students who have demonstrated financial need or a foreign athletic student who has been certified and has demonstrated as having financial need are eligible to apply for these funds. These funds can be used for:

  • Cost of clothing and other essential expenses up to $500 per year

  • Cost of expendable academic course supplies (e.g. notebooks and pens)

  • Medical and dental costs not covered by another insurance program

  • Costs associated with the athletic student or an athletic student's family emergencies


To apply for this special assistance funding program or for additional information you can contact your school's financial aid office.




Are There REALLY

Grant Programs

That Help To

Pay Off Debts?



According to an online website it seems that our government has put in place billions of dollars in government grants to help people. The goal of these grant programs is to help pay for those who have a lot of debt. These grant programs are open to ANY American citizen from 18 years old and above who is in serious financial need!

It has been reported that the President and Congress has already authorized the federal and state governments to channel billions of dollars to these grants at the soonest possible time! There are numerous kinds of grants and with careful research and documentation you will be able to find one that suits your individual needs and situation. Applying for grants is not the easiest thing but the requirements and documents needed are necessary for fair chances to all as well as to better assess your needs.

These kinds of grant programs are given by both the federal and state levels of our government to help people who are having trouble paying back their debt. These kinds of grant programs are not used often because many people are not aware that they exist and think they are not eligible for them.

There are also specific government debt relief grants where the money can be used to take care of debt for specific situations, such as student loans, business debt, and medical bills. For example, many small business owners accumulate debt when they start up a business and have trouble paying that debt off.


Now you would probably ask why such a grant program would exist.

When people are having trouble paying off their debt it creates a situation of decreasing expenditures for the individual. This will, in turn, lessen the demand for other goods and services that can be purchased because people do not have the extra money to buy these things. By not spending money it affects the economy in the country or state, which will then suffer because money is not being pumped into the economy. Because of this it is important that people have enough money to spend so that the economy can do well. These government grant programs were created to ensure that the economy does not suffer by giving money to people to pay off their debt so they can spend money on other goods and services.

These government grant programs are available for people that are able to prove that they cannot pay their debt off. If you are applying for for one of these government grant programs then you must be able to prove this fact. The social service of the government will look over your application as well as your financial standing, the amount of debts you have incurred, and what position you are in to pay back the debt. All of these aspects are taken into consideration before you will be given a grant.

Interesting fact! - It seems that one of them main reasons why our government has this kind of government grant program is to keep people from filing for bankruptcy.

But how does one get these types of government grants?????

You can search for these types of government grant programs by going to the governments official website. You can also look for these kinds of grant programs by going to your own state's website as well.

You also have to be very careful to take advantage of the government grant programs where you do not have to pay the money back!

People are frequently surprised when they discover that there are government grant programs that exist that can be used for paying off a variety of debts. There are grant programs that exist that can be used for:

  • paying off one’s mortgage

  • utility bills

  • tuition fees

  • medical bills

  • legal fees

  • car loans

  • home improvements


What about credit card debt?

According to an online website people can apply for government grant programs to pay off their credit card debt. This type of government grant program can help to pay off a person's credit card debt by helping to minimize the accruing interest and fees of the credit card debt and help repair the damaged credit of a person over time.





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