"How Do I Become A Client?"

This is another question that I have been asked and the answer appears below:

I am very interested in becoming a client of yours. Please let me know the process I need to follow................................

Here is an excerpt from my grants page:

What kind of services do you provide?

Can you find a grant program for me for free?

What do you charge to help find grants? / Do you accept Paypal payments?

Do you also help apply for the grants?

Each research project is done on a customized basis according to the type of grant that you and/or your organization is looking for regardless of whether you or your organization is a for-profit or non-profit. Included services will be the finding and locating of the available grant programs that can be applied to your project, research of the grant-making organizations and an analysis of them to identify likely funding sources for your specific project and/or organization. The research will include searches from an existing database(s) of all federal, state and local grant programs as well as grant programs offered by non-governmental entities (such as foundations and businesses) that also offer grant programs as well. Research/services may also include non-electronical fact-finding via telephone or written correspondences.

The basic fee is $875.00
* basic fee will increase on July 1, 2007!


(please refer to the payment information page at:

http://members.aol.com/Roseb441702/payinfo.htm

but larger projects may require additional fees based on the scope of the project.

If you want me to find you any grant program(s) and you are not a client, any information that you send to me will be returned to you. I actually never thought to accept Paypal payments until you mentioned it and I have made a provision for PayPal payments. You can find this on my payment information page. If I can not find a grant program for your project, organization or business after the 30 day period, I will refund the cost of the research!


Once you have the information on the grant programs available to you, you can then decide whether or not you will want to apply for them on your own or you can hire me or another grantwriter to prepare the application(s).

Picky, Picky, Picky!

I just got finished reading an article online about how one university wants to ban grants by tobbacco companies. Of course the whole university doesn't feel this way - just enough though to make it come to a decision.

While this is all fine and well - I don't want to hear them claim that they can't get any grant money ever again!

Quote - About Clients

"In my experience (granted, mostly in a different type of consulting),
the clients who are most difficult from the beginning, expect an
unrealistically low price, etc. are the ones most likely to stiff me."

I saw this quote and I just HAD to add it here! I can't tell you how many times I have gotten an email or phone call from someone that wanted me to find them a grant program. They mention nothing about paying me, they don't even answer the questions that appear here. I'm just supposed to know - sight unseen - about which grant program they can get.

This also tells me a lot about the person in question because I have said time and time before that you don't automatically get a grant. You have to apply for the grant.

Have I ever got "stiffed" by a client? Yes - once - and that is why it is NEVER going to happen again!

Non-Profit Daycare vs For-Profit Daycare?

In my honest opinion I think that it would be best to operate your daycare as a combination non-profit/for-profit business. I have recommended this advice all the time and the primary reason is because when you operate your daycare as both a for-profit and non-profit you are getting the best of both worlds!

There is a situation going on in Canada now as far as daycare grants are concerned. As I have said many times before there are areas where the need for childcare is so great that for-profit caycares are eligible to apply for the grants as well. Such is the situation going on in Canada - in fact a lot of the non-profit daycares are afraid that the for-profit daycares will take over all the available grants!

Grants For Starting A Daycare?

I get a lot of email from people that say that they want to start a daycare and they want me to tell them what grant programs are available to them.

The problem is that is all they say. For the most part most of them don't even say what kind of daycare they want to open. I don't know if the daycare they want to start is going to be a for-profit, a non-profit or will it be a combination of both? There are so many questions that have to be answered when one is looking for grant programs that they may be eligible for. That is why every client that I have has to answer the questions that appear here.

Although there are some grant programs that aren't just limited to starting a daycare the more specific you are about the kind of daycare that you want to start the better.

Are there grant programs for starting a daycare? Of course the answer is yes but it will depend on the KIND of daycare it is that you want to start!

Grants And Credit Card Debts?

Their have been a LOT of questions asked about whether there are grants for people to pay off their credit card debts. While this has been talked about in Washington nothing has been made into law yet. However there are some grant programs where you can spend the money ANY way you want and that would include paying off credit card debts.

I know of one grant program that awards $100,000 in grant money and you can use that money any way you want. However there is a big note here - you have to be eligible to apply for the grant!

Getting Investors

I see a lot of "investors wanted" posts all over the Internet. Somebody has an idea for a great invention and they need investors so they post to the Internet. I used to think that this was a very futile kind of thing to do but in the back of my mind was always the thought "you never know". Its one of the things that I talk about on my consultation page - about the fact that you never know where your opportunities may come from.

So tonight I was watching this program about a man who invented a different kind of sneaker and what was so surprising to me was that an investor sought him out instead of it being the other way around where he went after investors. Did you know that he got a check from his investor for $150,000!

So this kinds of puts things in a new perspective as far as those who are looking for investors go. If you got a good invention and you need investors - SPREAD THE WORD! You never know who's listening!

Grants For A For-Profit Daycare?

A lot of the email that I get has to do with people asking about grant programs for starting a for-profit daycare business. On my grants page there is a grant program spotlight about a grant program for minorities that want to start their own business. What that spotlight doesn't mention is that one of the recipients of this grant was someone that started their own daycare business. Further down the grants page I talk about 2 grant programs that can be used to start a for-profit business. They are both open for those that want to start a for-profit business. The first is a program that awards $50,000 and it was put in place for those aspiring to start their own business. This funding program was started to help encourage the entrepreneurial spirit! Although not everyone is eligible to apply, once you read their eligibility requirements you can determine if you are eligible to apply.

The second grant program has a $100,000 grant award and what is so significant about this funding program is that you can use the money any way that you like! This funding program was put in place to help people fulfill their dreams and it is open to people that want to start their own business, artists, scientists and teachers.

But getting back to those that want to start their own for-profit daycare business you have to know that there are funding programs out there for you! Just go to my grants page or my daycare page to read more about these funding programs.

Requests For Information

When you send me an email and ask me to send you "all the information that you have" you just do not know what you are asking. First of of I have a lot of information - too much to be sending "everything I have".

Clients get their information about the grant programs that they are eligible for emailed to them in a zipped file. The file is zipped because there is a lot of information besides the information about the grant programs themselves.

If you are a client but don't know how to unzip files, please email me and let me know.