Where To Search For Free Grants – Part 1

Where do you look for free grants? The search must be thorough or it could be an exercise in futility. Youll 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.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). Youll 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.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.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.