Where To Search For Free Grants
Author: Gavin Sanderson

Where do you look for free grants? The search must be thorough
or it could be an exercise in futility. You'll probably have to
go through a whole lot of seemingly useless leads before you
find one that leads somewhere. Maybe we could point you a bit
in the right direction.

The first place you should go to are the web sites of the
government agencies. Look for the ones that are inclined to
handle your program. If you are a student, then you could start
your search for a scholarship at the Department of Education
website. A natural disaster victim? Then go to the Federal
Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) web site. Here are a few
more free grant searches you could do. You could surf through
these web sites and see if they have programs that could be a
fit as far as your project is concerned.

These are the sites of the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA), the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA),
the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Department of
Education Grants and Contracts Information, the Department of
Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Department of Justice
(DOJ), the Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Stopping
Violence Against Women and Community Oriented Policing Services
(COPS). You'll also find that the Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) offers over 300 programs, all run by various
different agencies which have free grants.

If you want to look at some other sources, you could take a
look at some online search resources like Non-profit Gateway,
The Foundation Center and Grantsnet.

Students should definitely search on the FAFSA site. The Free
Application for Federal Student Aid website
(http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/) gives you a lot of information about
where to look for free student grants, details of campus-based
aid programs and how too avail of loans.

If you're clued in to how to apply for grants, you could go to
the CFDA or Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance site at
http://www.cfda.gov/. This site has entries on each program but
the terminology used could sound like Greek to someone who is
not well-acquainted with the intricacies of the whole free
grant money scenario. They also give you detailed explanations
on how to apply, how the money is to be used, the
review-and-award process they use and what exactly is expected
of you when you are given the grant.

The President just launched a site called
http://GovBenefits.com. It is a free online grant site that
hopes to lessen paperwork and increase efficiency by making
more information available online. This hopefully means less
bureaucracy and more focus on the citizen. Searching for free
grants on the Internet suddenly makes it so much more
accessible and close to home.


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