Grants For Playing Tennis....

There is an organization that provides funding to competitive junior players aspiring to achieve national and/or international rankings. Funding will be based on the success level of the player in the previous year. Must be training and competing in tournaments year-round. Have a history of strong national tournament results.

The grant award is a maximum of $10,000!

For more information you can contact them either by phone or by email for more information.

What Should You Do If You Get A Shut-Off Notice? What should you do if you receive a shut off notice? The first piece of advice that I can give to you would be for you to call your utility company and see if there is a way that you can make some kind of payment arrangement with them. I know that in my own area the utility company will send you information about programs that they may have to help you with your utility bill(s). While this may not be considered as free money exactly, it is a way to be able to get your utility bill balance lowered. You should also know that - at least in my area - the utility company has someone that they have to answer to and if you feel that you are not being treated fairly by your utility company then you can report them! There are also grant programs out there that may be able to help you as well. Here is a link to a blog post from someone who managed to get 2 government grants to help get their heating turned back on! There may also be an organization or charity that may be able to provide financial assistance to help you with your bills. I know of one local organization in my area that will provide a payment to your utility company to help you with your bill if you receive a shut off notice. All you have to do is send or fax them a copy of your shut off notice to prove that you really did get a shut-off notice. I am also starting to notice that there are quite a few websites out there that will let you request money. Some of these sites require you to submit documentation as proof but I know of at least one website where you can request up to $1000 and sometimes even more if your reason is compelling enough. All you have to do is submit your request of how much money you would like to have and what you need that money for. As I stated in a previous here on this blog, I have seen people receive as much as $500!

*Another source of money that you may not be aware of is unclaimed money. You can find out more about unclaimed money by visiting my blog - The Unclaimed Money Blog.

Free Grants For Dental Care! Many people are unaware of the services in their own home town. The ones that do know about it think it's only for helping handicapped citizens. Wrong. This program is in a position to help with free surgery, dental work and much, much more. If you are employed, but a health problem may prevent you from continuing to work, your local office can help. Especially convenient for those who need a major operation, but have no insurance, This organization will pay for the doctors' visits, medication, actual surgery, recuperative equipment and physical therapy, as well as major dental work, too. Please look in your area to see if you are eligible to apply for this program!

$25,000 Poetry Award!

Grant money for writers

Grant money for poetry

Financial awards in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) or poetry are available to published, creative writers. Theses kinds of awards allow writers to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement.

Individuals may apply only once each year.

Since this is a government grant program all individuals must submit their applications electronically via the government's official website!

The deadline to apply is March 4, 2010!

If you have questions about your application, please contact the staff by email or by phone.

In the event of a major emergency that affects a large number of applicants for an extended period of time (e.g., a multi-state power outage or a natural disaster such as a hurricane), the program may decide to adjust application deadlines for applicants in the affected area. If this occurs, the program will post an announcement on its Web site.

Competition for this program is extremely rigorous. Potential applicants should consider carefully whether their work will be competitive at the national level.

This program does not fund:

• Individuals who previously have received two or more awards from this program
  
  
• News reporting
  
  
• Scholarly writing
  
  
• Work toward academic degrees

You are eligible to apply in Poetry if, between January 1, 2003, and March 4, 2010, you have had published

• A volume of 48 or more pages of poetry
  
  
• Twenty or more different poems or pages of poetry in five or more literary journals, anthologies, or publications which regularly include poetry as a portion of their format. Up to 16 poems may be in a single volume of poetry of fewer than 48 pages. This volume, however, may count as only one of the required five places of publication

Applicants may use online publications to establish up to fifty percent of their eligibility, provided that such publications have competitive selection processes and stated editorial policies.

You must apply in a specific literary form (i.e., fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry). You must establish your eligibility in the form in which you apply. You must meet the eligibility requirements by the deadline date. No exceptions will be made to the eligibility requirements. The following may not be used to establish eligibility:

• Pre-publication material, such as galleys, proofs, and advance reader's copies
  
  
• Self-publication including work that has appeared in a publication for which you are the editor, publisher, or staff
  
  
  
• Collaborative work
  
• Scholarly writing
  
• Instructional writing
  
• Journalism
  
• Book reviews
  
• Editorials/letters to the editor
  
• Interviews
  
  
• Student publications and publications which primarily print work by persons who are affiliated with a particular academic institution
  
  
• Vanity press publication
  
  For the purposes of this category, a vanity press is defined as one that does any of the following: requires individual writers to pay for part or all of the publication costs; asks writers to buy or sell copies of the publication; publishes the work of anyone who subscribes to the publication or joins the organization through membership fees; publishes the work of anyone who buys an advertisement in the publication; publishes work without competitive selection; or publishes work without professional editing

Please remember to submit your application no later than 10 days prior to the deadline to give yourself ample time to resolve any problems that you might encounter. You take a significant risk by waiting until the day of the deadline to submit.

Waiver Request

If you are unable to submit your application electronically, you may request a waiver. A waiver will be granted for the following reasons only:

• Internet access is not available within a 30-mile radius of your address
  
  
• Disability prevents you from submitting your application electronically

Your waiver request must be in writing and must be received (not postmarked) at least three weeks before the application deadline. You can click here for more information on waivers.

You do not need to complete the registration process to download the application package and begin to prepare your material (see below). However, you will need your Username and Password that you obtain in the final step of the registration process to submit your application.

If you want a hard copy of your completed application for your files, clicking the Print button will print out the two forms in the Mandatory Completed Documents for Submission box. For a hard copy of the items that you are attaching to the Attachments Form, you will have to print each of these out separately from your computer.

For Poetry:

• 10 typescript, single-column pages of:
  
  Poetry, with no more than one poem per page, or
  One long poem (or section of a long poem)
  
  
• Your manuscript sample must be:
  
  
  From work that you have written in the time period that establishes your eligibility, and for which you have sole artistic responsibility. You may submit published work, unpublished work, or work in progress. Do not indicate whether or not the material has been published.
  
  
  • In the literary form in which you establish your eligibility (e.g., poetry). Please indicate the literary form at the top of the first page of your manuscript
    
    
  • In typescript and clearly readable. Use a 12 point or larger font. Include the page number in the upper right corner of each page. Do not crowd pages. Do not submit more than the maximum number of pages that are allowed; excess pages will be removed

List the specific published works that establish your eligibility (see Eligibility for details). Use the bullets below as column headings for your list. For each publication note:

• Title
  
  
• Publisher (including name of magazine or press with address and phone number)
  
  
• Publication date (month and year)
  
  
• ISBN number, if available
  
  
• Number of pages of your material

grants for individuals grants for personal use personal grant money free grant money Free Money! Do you know that I actually found a website that is giving away free money! (Isn't it just amazing at what you can find on the internet these days!) Here is how it works. Someone put up a website where you can make a request for money! You send them an email saying how much you would like to have and what you need the money for. Some requests for money are answered and some aren't. It's quite obvious that even Bill Gates couldn't even honor all the requests for money that this site has been receiving. Requests can be made for up to $500 or more if you have a compelling reason as to why you need the money. Some of the people that this site has said received money received the money for help with paying bills, financial assistance with paying a mortgage payment or a rent payment, money for college books, and some have received money just to be able to buy gifts for their children.

Another Grants Program

For Artists Announced!

This state program awards grants of up to $25,000 for the production of film, video, media or new technology project. This funding program for individual artists offers support for the creation of new work by artists who reside in the state through artist-initiated projects in electronic media (video, sound art, installations, and new technologies) and film production, and the commissioning of new work by composers and theater artists.

Artists at various career stages are welcome to apply to this program.

Grant Program For Women In Business!

There is a grant program for women in business founded by an organization!

This grant funding program was designed to help give women in business the financial assistance that they need. This program will also provide the business with publicity and an opportunity for review and recommendations from an experienced panel of judges from area businesses, financial institutions, organizations, government agencies and colleges.

You can find out more about this grant program by visiting the organization's website. Address and phone number are also provided!

A $10,000 Prize For Writers!

There is a foundation that has an annual award that honors books which contribute to the understanding of racism or the appreciation of the diversity of human culture. Any work addressing issues of racial bias or human diversity may qualify.

The amount of the award is $10,000!

The deadline to apply is January 31st!

The foundation has a website where you can find out more information about this program that helps provide funding for writers.

Government grants for schools Grants for schools Grants for teachers Free school grants Free government money Schools Receive Grant Money! Government grant stimulus money is being used for schools! Thanks to the federal stimulus program some individual schools are getting grants of up to $10,000 each for items on their “wish list” to help boost programs for special education students! The money is part of the roughly $16 million the school system is getting under the federal government’s economic stimulus program! One of the grant programs serves economically disadvantaged children and the other grant program is aimed at students with disabilities. Statewide, schools are getting more than $320 million in stimulus money through the two programs. To get the grant, each school must submit a proposal to help special education students excel. A school can get up to $10,000! For example, one school is getting $10,000 worth of laptop computers. Another school wants a $9,900 mobile computer lab, and yet another school is getting $10,000 worth of educational software. In addition to grants to schools about $1.2 million in stimulus money is going for the purchase of books, training and educational software to help special education students improve their reading and math and become more physically active. Also special education teachers, speech therapists and others involved with special education are getting $500 in stimulus money each to buy instruction materials and supplies for their classrooms.