Quote From: planemanI read your posting about being in a rut and I know saying Happy Birthday, right now probably doesnt help much yet, however, if you start right here (ON THE INTERNET) you can search for all kinds of grants. You should be careful about paying someone to give you a listing of grants, though there are some programs that charge a small fee for the listings and they are legitimate organizations. If you just type the word Grants in Google you will get a bunch of replies. I would start with the SBA especially if there are any business type things you may want to try. Every state has a Small Business Administration, and I know in New York we also have SCORE. These are mostly retired professionals who want to help. Generally they will be working with people in setting up a Business Plan, helping you decide what may be the best suited steps for you to take and even what you are best suited to do.
Also, as you start going through the different grants out there, you may find that there is grant that is for something other than what you were originally looking for, however, it may provide you with funds to buy a home (Any Kind) and free up other money for you to fix the car. My point is dont just look at grants that are to fix your car, and buy a mobile home. You may just find something that gets you excited again. The library should have some books on government grants as well.
Colleges will also have someone who is familiar with grants, and yes other than just for school. I am sure your local community college will have a counselor who would be happy to meet with you and will be able to point you ion the right direction. Most college librarys will have books or even old Microfiche with grants and nowadays grant searching help on the internet. If you call them and set up an appointment especially a community college, they will help you. You can as last resort merely tell them you may also be interested in taking a class or 2 and then they will absolutely help you. You may even find that a class or two may help get you out of the rut. And dont be embarrassed about school at 50. Night and weekend courses are filled with people our age.
Speaking of schools, check with local automotive schools. They may offer to help fix your car. Meet with the teacher, and discuss what you need. Again, I do not know what state you live in, so its hard to be specific, but check technical schools and colleges with an automotive technology program and see if they will help. Dont be surprised if they will. I also dont know what you do or what you like so it is also hard to be specific about certain things.
Regarding your original question, just remember that I mentioned that Google will give you several hits just by searching the word grant, burt dont stop there, start going deeper and de3eper into the web with your searches.
I hope this helped a little and remember 50 today really is like 35 , 25 years ago! I only get on this site when I come in from work, and usually while watching the show, however I put the show on DVR and then watch it at 7:00. Feel free to stay in touch through t his site and let me know how you progressing.
I just turned 51 and live in ca, I am disabled and on SSI sence 1986. I have
no one close to me, so thank-you for the comments.
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