Free government grants do exist, but the government does not refer to them as such. They simply call them grants because, after all, that is what they are. Gurus, companies, and others out to make a quick dollar will try to reel you in and get you to buy their information on free grants. Do not give in to them. This information is already free and readily available to the public by The United States Government. You should never have to pay to receive this information.
Why would someone want to pay for something that is free? Better yet, why should they have to?
The United State Government already has topic-specific websites in place full of this information, as well as 1-800 numbers to call if you choose to gain the information that way instead.
Not only have the sellers of this “top-secret information” lied to the public by claiming that you must buy their programs, books, or other products to receive this information, but they have also led innocent people to believe that most of these grants are available to an individual person. While there are specific grants that are available to individuals, most grants are reserved for small businesses and non-profit organizations.
An individual person is not likely to get a grant to pay off a mortgage. Statements like this are simply made by these companies to get you to purchase their products. They tell you that unless you purchase what they are offering, you cannot find out about these grants. Well, in a sense they are correct, but not in the way you are led to think. That statement is correct because once you purchase their product, you will find out what they say about it. However, you will likely be disappointed when you contact the government agencies they mention. The reason for the upset is simple. The government will tell you that what you are asking for does not exist.
While the government does give farming, housing, business, college, education, and house building grants, these grants are given to non-profit organizations that help people. They are not given to individuals.
While individual grants do exist, the types of grants more commonly given to individuals is different than our expectations based upon what we are seeing and hearing in these ads.
An individual grant falls more along the lines of food stamp programs, section 8 vouchers, FAFSA, job training (not college; these are small courses designed to help those who have never worked or those who haven’t worked in a long time transition into the working world), nursing traineeships, Head Start program, welfare/TANF/AFDC, scholarships, free vaccinations, and other such programs.
As you can see, while free government grants do exist, we are oftentimes misled as to what exactly they are. For more information from the United States Government, please refer to the links below.
Sources:
http://www.us-government-grants.net/article_info.php/articles_id/29 U.S. Government Grants
http://www.grants.gov/ Grants.gov
http://studentaid.ed.gov/PORTALSWebApp/students/english/index.jsp StudentAidEd.gov
http://www.sba.gov/ SBA.gov (Small Business Administration)
http://www.govbenefits.gov/govbenefits_en.portal GovBenefits.gov (Government Benefits)
http://www.grants.gov/search/basic.do Search for Grant Opportunities on Grants.Gov
