Are Government Grants for You? Find Out

Many think grants are just for someone else. People think others qualify and that they have no qualification to apply. Some do not apply fearing they won't qualify. Well maybe you do not need another degree. Perhaps you are not in business nor do you qualify for government contracts. So that leaves you out of the realm of government grants. Or does it?

Let's look at the story of an organization in West Virgina named DAWG, Direct Action Welfare Group, a non profit organization founded in West Virginia in 2002.Before you hear WHO this group is or how it came about, let's look at two things: their program achievements and their financial information. After that you will see who they are and how they started.

IN 2007 DAWG was responsible for guiding the poor they serve as to where and how to testify to educate lawmakers as to the injustice they experience due to their poverty; training teens to train their peers and their parents; informing low income families the public assistance they qualify for ; teaching these low income families skills to get them off welfare; training partners who aid the poor in West Virgina and even so much as distributing shoes and clothing vouchers among 1000 low income families. This list not the whole of it.

Their annual budget is under $60,000 annually. In 2007 they received a total of just over $5k in donations. The rest of the budget came from... Government Grants.

The percentage they got through grants on 2007? Over 90% of their budget. Look again at what they do at the list above with those funds. Now let's look at WHO these people are. Are you thinking some wealthy organization started this organization?

You would be wrong.

This organization was started by women of families who were, but no longer are, on welfare. When they found others who were having similar problems as they were they began to gather and to solve their problems as a group of people on welfare. The end result? They got off welfare and now help others like they had been long ago get off welfare and into the workforce, and they assist these families with the basic needs of their children and with the improvement of their condition and education in basic technical skills.

SO, let's recap: a group of women on welfare figured out long term how to get grants to help an organization empower them, their children, their communities, to get off welfare and permanently improve their quality of life.

Impressive.

The recent big achievers say they all agree on one thing: if you seek to serve yourself first, others later, you will always earn less than if you seek to serve others first. If you seek to serve others first, you always get more of what you want and make far more doing it. Still don't think you can make use of or qualify for a grant? Think again. As promised, the four things you need to get a grant.

Find your passion zone of where you see a need, and where you want to serve, and get effective. Make things happen. Let government grants help you make the difference. Think big. Locate the funds and make your dream a reality. Need help in finding out what's out there? Get that help. Then get your vision into our reality.