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How to Avoid a Government Grant Scam?

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The government grants play a very important role in helping people who have financial problems. Due to the financial aid, some people may incautiously believe some kind of tricky scam. So you must be careful when opening yourself up to finding a grant. There are many scam artists out in the world and they are waiting for anyone possibly will bite the lure. During your searching for the grants you must practice common sense and be proactive. Here is some Information on preventing yourself from getting scammed through grants:

The first and the most important principle is grant is free and grant information is free too! You could choose to pay for help with a grant, but make you are paying for their service but not giving you free information. You can access free grant information on the internet. What you need to do is to open your computer and be on internet. Then fill some key words you can find the free grant information. In another hand, if you opt to buy a service I strongly suggest checking with several of the anti-scam websites first.

There are some common tricky set up on the internet. One of the most common trickiness is to pay to submit a grant application. So if you are proactive, please don’t pay to submit a grant application. If you are asked to pay for a application fee, obviously it is a scam. And the fee varies depending on the type of grant you are applying for. It may be required for you to show you have financial resources to cover expenses that the grant does not cover. And you will pay more money for that project and gain nothing. That’s why the scam are so boring.

People usually don’t like the application procedure because the application process for government grants is usually lengthy. Bad guys use the weakness to allure those people who is not patient enough. So if someone shows up and tells you within a week that you have been chosen for a government grant, it is most likely a scam. It’s often take few weeks for the government officers to give a grant.

The government gives the grant to you for helping you out of the difficulties not for hunting you down. The government will not make the grant profitable and get some goods from the grant. There is always a call which said they can award you a grant only if you just pay $50 for a process fee. If you are precaution you can smell a scam. Even there is a case that someone did not submit an application for a government grant before. But one day he received a call claimed that you have been awarded one government grant. It’s obviously a scam.


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Obtaining Big Grant Money for Your School

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I shouldn’t say there are really secrets to getting large amounts of grant money for your school, but the guidelines listed below will help you get more grant money than 97% of the other schools in the United States. Follow them closely, and you’ll get more grant money than you believed possible.

As you read these, you may think they’re too simple to be all that important. You would be wrong! Follow the guidelines below, and you’ll get more grant money than 95% of the other schools that apply.

First, know specifically what your needs are and match those needs closely with the granting entity’s mission. Let’s say your students read two grade levels below normal. The U.S. Department of Education gives money to schools who have students with math levels two grade levels below normal.

That’s not a match.

You need lots of new library books. They give money for innovative technology programs.

That’s not a match.

You should always contact the granting agency BEFORE you start filling out their grant application. If you do not have a fairly close match between your needs and their purpose for giving, you are not going to get the grant money you need. Many times a phone call or an email can save you hours and hours of work.

First, match your needs with their purpose for giving.

Second, complete the application EXACTLY as you are instructed by the granting entity. If you don’t, either your application score will not be high enough to compete with other schools also applying for the grant, or your application won’t be read at all. If it says use 12-point type, use 12-point type, not 10, not 14. If it asks for a formal budget, submit a formal budget, not a loose bunch of numbers not specifically directed at the problem.

Follow directions. You expect students to follow directions exactly. Agencies that give grants expect you to follow directions, too.

Third, apply for many grants, not just one or two. For each problem you have, submit at least three grants. Try to solve four different problems. Do the multiplication—that’s 12 applications right there.

Follow the two simple steps above, and the grant money will start coming in quickly once you apply step three.

Once you’ve matched up your needs to their purpose for giving, once you’ve followed their grant application directions completely, then all you need to do is crank out enough applications. It’s a numbers game. Your odds just went up geometrically.

I’m not going to tell you that getting grant money is easy, but if you follow these three basic guidelines, you’ll get as much or more grant money than 95% of the other schools in the United States.

Don Peek worked for 20 years as a teacher, principal, and assistant superintendent. He then became a VP then president of a division of Renaissance Learning, creator of Accelerated Reader.
Since 2001 Don has run The School Funding Center. It boasts a school grant database which contains over 100,000 grants for schools.
http://www.schoolfundingcenter.info