This free money is being awarded to applicants whose programs fall into one of the five funding categories outlined by the AmeriCorps program. These include: helping the poor, improving education, encouraging energy efficiency, strengthening access to healthcare and assisting veterans.

Not everyone, however, is receiving the same amount of money. Grants range from $800 awards for smaller missions and up to over 10 million for some of the larger ones. Money is being divided up by the federal Corporation for National and Community Service who decides exactly how the money should be distributed.

With these grants the government hopes to repair a number of flailing services here in the US, most important being literacy and overall education. As such, it should come as no big surprise that Teach for America is the overall big winner in these free money awards. This program is set to receive $11.4 million for 6,621 AmeriCorps members performing its services. Teach for America is a non-profit organization that works to get rid of education inequality across the country by placing recently graduated teachers to teach in low income areas. The money will help cover the cost of living for these teachers while they perform this vital public service.

Operation Welcome Home is another important program receiving almost $560,000 for their service. This program is run by the California Department of Veterans Affairs and employs 80 AmeriCorps members who help returning soldiers and military members in California transition back to civilian life.

Other big winners in the grant awards include: $400,000 for the Northern Mariana Islands; $650,000 to learn and Earn Alaska; $702,000 to the National AIDS Fund and $1,600,000 for Harlem Children's Zone Peacemaker Program; $1,096,000 for National Association of Service & Conservation Corps amongst so many others.

If you are interested in receiving free money from AmeriCorps now is the time to act. You can visit their website and find out exactly what you need to qualify. Regardless of how small your outfit is, there is money for you. These grant awards will continue to be available in abundance over the next few years as the government tries to get AmeriCorps services from a mere 80,000 members to 250,000 members by 2017. Don’t miss out on your opportunity.

If the whole grant application process is a bit too overwhelming for you, you can also choose to send away for a free grant application kit. This kit will tell you everything you need to know about applying for a grant, including a listing of all available grants, and a step by step guide through the application process. Apply today.

Renewable energy is power that can be recycled and does not rely entirely on fossil fuels, but rather on other energy methods such as wind mills, solar panels, etc. The green grant money comes out of the federal budget, but each individual state is responsible for administering it. The government is anxious to make these changes and as such is processing the grant applications very quickly and consumers are receiving their green grant money in record time. Below are some of the available green grants.

Green Grants for Home Owners
ENERGY Star appliances are the most energy efficient home appliances on the US market. If you are looking at replacing your furnace, air conditioner, dishwasher, clothes washer or dryer, you should definitely consider replacing it with an ENERGY Star appliance.

The exact amounts of your ENERGY Star green grant coverage will vary from 15% to 100% depending on the state in which you live. Most green grants, however, cover about 50%, helping to offset the costs of installing or investigating renewable energy systems. That means that individuals getting an initial assessment, or who are implementing changes in their current systems, can have at least some of their expenses subsidized by a green grant. Homeowners looking to convert their electric or hot water systems to solar powered ones are excellent candidates for these free green grants.

Green Grants for Business
There are all sorts of financial incentives for businesses, large and small, to hop on board the green train. Most businesses have an energy output equivalent to 50 houses or more and this is not going to be sustainable in the near future. There are large green grants to help businesses cover the costs of going green and drastically reducing their energy consumption.

The Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) is just one such business grant program. Funded by the federal government, REAP gives grants to farms and small businesses to invest in green energy such as biomass (the conversion of organic waste or produce into energy), solar, wind, water and geothermal technologies.

Apply For Your Green Grant Today
Every day that goes by and you sit and do nothing means more damage to our planet. By reducing your own home or business’s energy consumption you can help slow the effects of global warming and keep the hole in the ozone layer from expanding. Do your part in reducing your energy consumption and your children, grandchildren and great children will thank you for it. Remember: reducing your energy consumption also translates into lowered energy bills and increased savings in the long term!

Housing Grants

The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is dedicated to providing adequate low-income housing to Americans and landed residents in financial need. If you are paying more than 35% of your salary to cover your housing that is too much, and you will likely qualify for one of the various housing grants to help reduce your expenses. Grants include money to cover rent, mortgage payments, public housing, and shelter expenses.

Personal Grants

If you are making your rent and mortgage payments but don’t have enough left over to pay your bills and other daily living expenses such as food and transportation then this is the type of low-income grant that you need. The money awarded can help you pay down debts and regain control of your finances.
Even if you have a great job and a decent income, but have made some bad investments and have wound up in debt, you could qualify for these grants. The money is granted to help you pay off those unsecured debts so that you aren’t forced to sacrifice your standard of living.

Childcare Grants

Childcare services in America aren’t cheap, and if you are in a low-paying job, the amount of money you are left with after paying for childcare doesn’t really warrant going into work. The government wants to help single parents and low-income families to be able to get out there and work while still having safe responsible care for their children. If you can’t afford the monthly cost of daycare you can apply for a childcare grant which will cover child care in a licensed child care center; in a licensed family child care home; by a relative of the child in the relative's home; or by an approved person in the child's home.

How to Apply

The easiest way to find and apply for government low-income grants is by using a free grant kit. These handy kits have a current and complete list of available grants and easy to manoeuvre and find the ones that you are eligible for. The kit will even help you through the application process if you are unsure of what to do. Apply for your free kit today and you will be on your way to getting a free government grant in no time at all.

There are over 49,000 types of available government grants as of March 23, 2010. Many of these grants are distributed annually; however, thousands go unclaimed. Nevertheless, since new bills were passed on March 21, this number will increase to include more education grants and to make room for the projected $61 billion dollars the US government expects to save over the coming decade.

The only problem is that with a sudden influx of state and federal grants, American citizen will no doubt be scrambling to apply for any and every government grant they can get their hands on. Many false websites have already begun to spring up, promising American citizens thousands of dollars in free government grant money, but without any evidence or information to back up these claims.

We’ve decided to review the 2 most popular and credible government grant website, in order to show grant applicants the things to look for, the research to do, and the things of which you should beware.

GOVERNMENTGRANT.COM

We recommend this site for a variety of reasons.

Users can order a grant kit right from the website, which will help them to see for which grants they can apply, how to do so, and how to assess their personal criteria to ensure they are qualified to apply for the grant they need.

Probably the best part of www.governmentgrant.com is it is a database of government grant information. What impressed us the most was the wealth of information available on the site, for US applicants to familiarize their selves with and grasp requirements of government grants. A sidebar with various types of grants provides visitors with much of the information they need to assess properly what kind of grant is right for them.

Readily available on every page is a link to direct visitors to the grant kit order-form. For a small shipping and handling fee, visitors of www.governmentgrant.com can order a grant kit that will guide them through the government grant application process.

Compared to other, newer government grant sites, we rate www.governmentgrant.com a 5/5.

GOVERNMENTGRANTS.COM

This particular Government Grants sites is one of the slickest we’ve seen.

The design is simple, but under each header is a plethora of relevant articles. Visitors can learn the ins and outs of government grants, available funding, the application process, and more.

The research is credible, the facts accurate and the statistics encouraging. www.governmentgrants.com adds an elegance to applying for government grants, taking it from a taboo subject to a national entitlement.

With anywhere from 8 to 25 articles per category, visitors can decide exactly what they need and this site will show them how to get it.

Appearing on every page are banners that will direct visitors to an easy online form to order a government grant kit, to help complete the process of application.

We rate this site 5/5.

Make sure to visit these sites and to do heavy research before deciding for which government grant you want to apply. Do not trust every website promising you free money in the form of government grants, or you are likely to be duped.

We’ve set out to see which websites provide the best services to help you identify for which loans you can apply, and how to go about doing so. During our research, we discovered a multitude of “fake” government grant websites, designed to dupe their visitors into thinking they are credible sources for government information. Beware of such sites.

One such site is grants-loans.org, which appears to have a wealth of information in the site, but the information is incredible, out-dated and targeted to profit from the visitors, rather than act as a database for information. It is not a helpful tool; rather, a sales initiative.

Fortunately, we found the best site, and Canada’s number one site for government grant information and applications.

www.Grants.ca

This website is a collection of any and all government grant-related information any Canadian could ever need.

What impressed us the most about this website was the plethora of informative articles regarding all aspects of Canadian government grants: women’s grants, business grants, housing grants, education grants, and more. The website also includes up-to-date relevant news information concerning Canadian government grants.

You will notice the ease-to-read homepage is neatly sectioned off, so you can easily find what you are looking for. Want to know more about housing grants? Just click on an article under the Housing header. Each of the sections has myriad articles to answer any question you might have.
The design of the website is one of the nicest we’ve seen. We have to hand it to the folks at www.grants.ca – they’ve created a gorgeous interface that is so easy to navigate, we went thru the entire homepage just for the hell of it.

An amazing thing about grants.ca is that the search function will show you results that are tailored to your specific province. This eliminates the need to weed through articles that aren’t relevant to your particular need.

As well, if you want to see specific examples of government grant awardees, the website provides you with names and grant award totals for 2009 in Canada. This adds an air of legitimacy to this site.

Grants.ca is undoubtedly the best resource for government grant information, and you can even apply for a grant kit right on the site.

5/5

“As Sunshine Week begins, I want to applaud everyone who has worked to increase transparency in government and recommit my administration to be the most open and transparent ever, an effort that will strengthen our democracy and ensure the public’s trust in their government,” wrote President Obama this week.

The notion that the government should be completely transparent stems from President Obama’s idea that public engagement will enhance the government’s effectiveness and improve the quality of its decisions.

Recently instated in 2009, this new transparency will affect government grants by providing a database of past recipients; so that current applicants can 1) assess their likelihood of receiving government grants, and 2) let the public know where the government is spending their money.

You can visit www.recovery.gov and see clearly drawn out recipient reported data, detailing exactly the number of distributed awards, the amount of funding awarded, received funding and recipient reported jobs as up-to-date as Dec. 31, 2009.

For example, last year in New York State, the government awarded 3,060 grants, totaling roughly $10.21 billion dollars to be distributed over time. Of the $10 billion, between October and December, $1.77 of the grants were received. These government grants made it possible for a thus far 41, 767 jobs to be created. You can view details of the individual distributions on the website.
There are 5 steps to apply for government grants.

1) Make sure you are eligible.

• Government and education organizations
• For-profit and non-profit organizations
• Small businesses
• Individuals (on behalf of him or herself, not on behalf of a company)

2) Identify specific government grant opportunities.

• Try www.governmentgrants.com or grants.gov.
• For federal domestic assistance, try www.cfda.gov

3) Prepare to apply for a government grant.

• Have the following documents: a mission statement, references, a list of accomplishments.
• You might try a grant application package, found at www.governmentgrant.com, which will assist you step-by-step through the process.

4) Register at www.grants.gov.

5) Apply for a grant.

The grants range from $500 to $1,500 and go to specific applicants who are helping to promote literacy in their communities. The free money goes to support their literacy projects that are creative and engaging, and are deemed would have a tangible and positive effect on student achievement. The winning programs are projected to affect 10,000 students.

The Awards include:

• $57,500 in government grants to 48 California schools
• $8,5000 in government grants to 12 Nevada schools
• $4,000 in government grants to 4 New York schools

Projects funded include:

• $1,500 to Robin Horn of Chinese Christian Schools in California, towards a project designed to improve student literacy by having them read from National Geographic Kids and Science News.
• $500 to Jessica Wood at Community Health Academy of the Heights in New York, for her “Boys’ Book Club” project designed to engage reluctant readers.
• $1,500 to Leslie Hill of Open Charter Magnet in California, for her project “Openopoly” designed to encourage reading by awarding stickers based on time.

Reading is The way up® is an award-winning literacy initiative through which schools have acquired more than 50,000 books and received 449 literacy grants.

For a complete list of recipients, visit http://readingisthewayup.org/2009-2010-Grant-List.pdf.

Individual government grants proudly provide support to American individuals who appropriately demonstrate need for government funding, in order to succeed and prosper in the American economy.

Below you will find an incomplete list of various government grant recipients, as well as the government departments providing the funding. Please note, these records are for fiscal year 2009. The government grants for fiscal 2010 are available on www.usaspending.gov, although the funding has only just begun.

Top 10 Recipients

Have a look below at the top recipients for government grants in 2009, and make sure to apply to the top ones that apply to you. You can find a complete list of government grants by visiting www.usaspending.gov.

Top 5 Programs

Under the new healthcare Bill, 32 million Americans who currently can’t afford health insurance will be eligible for all sorts of government grants and subsidies to help make health insurance payments fit into their budget.

For the first time in U.S history, it will now be mandatory for all Americans to get health insurance. Low income workers who simply cannot afford to make health insurance payments will be eligible for grant subsidies and will also have access to group exchanges where individuals and groups can compare insurance plans and get reduced rates.

Federal subsidies will also be provided to help people with incomes up to 400 percent of the poverty level, roughly $40,000, to help them purchase coverage. Larger grants will be given to lower-income households.

And no longer will Americans be refused health insurance coverage for existing illnesses. The health bill makes it illegal to deny anyone health coverage and also makes it illegal to for Americans not to have coverage. It even goes so far as to make it mandatory that businesses with over 50 employees offer workers group health coverage which is usually cheaper than purchasing it on your own.

There will also be cash rebates for certain Medicare beneficiaries. Currently, there is a coverage gap in the Medicare prescription drug plan. Right now, Medicare covers up to $2,830 in total drug costs for the year. Then between $2,831 and $4,550 the insured is left to pay 100% of their prescription costs. And after $4,550 the Medicare kicks in again. Thus, to help subsidize this coverage gap, in 2010 Medicare recipients in this "doughnut hole" will get a $250 rebate and in 2011 will also get a 50% discount on brand-name drugs. The new bill will work at closing the gap in drug coverage for Medicare beneficiaries by 2020.

The US government is spending upwards of $600 billion on these new reforms to ensure that all Americans have access to quality health care. As a US citizen, it is your responsibility to find health insurance as well as apply for government healthcare grants if you simply can’t afford it. There are many different health grants and subsidies that are available under this new bill, so make sure to do your research and apply for all the ones that you qualify for.