Has anyone ever received a federal grant processed by American Financial invoving 279.95 processing charge.?

Answer 1

If you have to pay for a processing charge on a federal grant, don't sound right, I would avoid it

Answer 2

I would be EXTREMELY WARY of businesses and organizations that charge for grant processing fee. Why? Because grants are FREE and the government does not charge anything to process grants.

More importantly, these companies tell you that you can get a grant for anything and everything you can think of -- which is ABSOLUTELY FALSE. That's why it's a scam because they tell you that they will give to you a grant when in reality there is no such grant. Unfortunately for you, whether you get a grant or not, you get charged $279.95

Avoid these services at all cost if you do not want to be SCAMMED.

You can go to the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) http://www.cfda.gov and Grants.gov http://www.grants.gov - these are two FREE sites created by the federal government to provide transparency and information on grants. Browse through the listings and see if you can find any grant that would support your purposes.

Even if you buy books on "how to get grants" or list that supposedly has information on grants -- all of them are mere rehash of what CFDA has, albeit packaged differently.

Note though that these grants generally support non-profit organizations, intermediary lending institutions, and state and local governments. Most of the federal grants are given to specific target groups with specific requirements (e.g. minority business owners involved in transportation related contracts emanating from DOT - Grant#20.905 Disadvantaged Business Enterprises Short Term Lending Program. Individuals especially for personal purposes are not eligible for federal grants.

Grants are also often given to non profit groups or organizations involved in training or other similar activities (grant 59.043 Women's Business Ownership Assistance that are given to those who will create women's business center that will train women entrepreneurs

The government is NOT in the business of giving away free money for the sake of giving away money. There are no grants for paying bills, for getting out of debt or for buying a car. Grants are free, but it means OBLIGATION. You will be obligated to do as the grant sets out to do. Grants have objectives, and your purpose must fit the objective of the grant.

For one, you have to write the grant application and the grant application is not a simple document - you have to explain how your purpose for applying for the grant fits well with the objectives set out by the grant. Grants have objectives, and the grant applications that best captures the grant's objectives are approved.

There is a stringent review process through a committee composed of federal employees and selected experts in the field. You will compete with other applicants for the grant money, and this grant review committee will evaluate the merits of each proposal. Only those that they feel exemplifies the objective of the grant will be approved.

Answer 3

That sounds very very high..Have a College fianancial adviser look into that for you. See what she says about it.

Answer 4

why not have it for free on www.fafsa.ed.gov