I.m a speciality contractor in concrete, stamping, staining, driveways, walkways, patios, garages, excavation, concrete repair, overlayments, colors, art work of concrete. New business started 7/05, I need help and advice as a women minority to help get my feet off the ground. I need equipment, shop with land, I'm home based for now and growing. I'm a grandmother of 5, was in nursing for 25 plus years and I changed my career for the better and my life. Moved from Missouri to Oregon, whole new life for me. Wanting to make a good business plan and get some grants to help me with my new career and suceed.

What started out as a way to earn a little money to survive when my husband was laid off from his job has grown into a mission to unite women from all walks of life in acceptance of ourselves and others.

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I am a single mother of 2 young children and I am trying to start a home-based business. I am unable to work outside the home because I would not be able to afford the childcare costs. I am trying to build a business making, marketing, and selling handmade soaps and candles. I need this money to help with living costs while I am building the business as well as providing for inventory, equipment, and marketing costs.

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in need of aprox. $150,000.00 to start B and B and also use for home

I am looking for federal grants available to single mothers,    I am unemployed due to child illnesses.   I am living with family and wanting to get out on my own and start a business where I am also available for my young child.   Any help would be greatly appreciated.  

Recently Divorced. Single Mother Of a 2 year old. Recieve no child support. Foreclosure on my house in 30 days if no help. Any grants or loans out there that could help me. Credit Score is 505

I am looking for a grant for cash to get my bills caught up, and to get my pipes, driveway, electrical, mold, walls buckling, roof leaking and things fixed here

 I would like to go to graduate school so that I have a better chance of having the best career possible. I am a single mother and I need to do everthing I can to better life for my son and I.

My name is Felicia Rock, a social worker and prospective grad student who resides in Snohomish County.  I have lived and worked here for over two years now, and have enjoyed much of what the county has to offer.

So why do I write?  After working at my job with f homeless families in transitional housing for close to a year, I felt it was time to get some more education to balance out my experience in the social work field.  I applied, and was accepted, for advanced standing at Eastern Washington University’s School of Social Work, one of the better programs in Washington state.  I will even be able to continue working and living in Snohomish County while attending school.  Financial aid is in place for the year and a half long program.  There is just one complication:  Federal aid does not cover the seminar I need to begin my post-undergraduate education.  I was informed of this two weeks ago, after several days of communication with the university.  It is a six credit 2 week class that begins at the end of this coming August.  I cannot start spring quarter without attending this seminar.  I am respectfully requesting sponsorship for this class in any amount up to the $1700 needed for tuition and books for this summer seminar.  I have tried all the conventional means, and those options are unavailable to me as well.

By beginning graduate school now, I feel that I will gain even more skills and knowledge to continue to aid the disenfranchised of this community, and later on a more global scale.  Thank you for your time and consideration.

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I am a 35 year old woman that has been trying to get my life straight, and go back to school.  I attended college for the first time in 1988 (after having a very turbulent academic career in high school) I found myself and started to grow as an artist as well as a scholar.  I had to leave school because of financial reasons, I just could not afford it.  My parents were having there own financial woes and were unable to help me.  Unfortunately, for the past 17 years have been filled with long hard work and lousy wages.  I could barely pay bills let alone pay off a student loan and school too.  Well here I am taking a step out on faith, hoping that there is someone who is blessed to be a blessing and will loan or preferable grant me the money to pay back the loan and go back to school. 

I want to open a small dress shop in Oceanside, CA and have no idea where to start...I had heard about small grants to assist women in opening small businesses, so I was just trying to get information on how to get started...

I am looking for a grant to help me start a restaruant

I am currently unemployed and I don't want to take out a loan because I don't want to be stuck the rest of my life trying to pay it back. I have looked for government grants online but I keep getting linked to guides that you have to pay for which is ridiculous since why should I pay to find government grants if they themselves are free. Luckily, I found this site and hoping to find something that I can use. I want to become a health advocate/natural medispa owner.

 I am a single mother of two young girls. I receive support, somewhat consistently, for one of  my children only. I'm having difficulty in finding a decent home in which to raise my girls that I can afford on my own.I am also at this time, looking into starting my own daycare so that I can return to the workforce creating income to support ourselves on without having to pay for daycare for my own two children. ANY HELP WOULD BE SO GREATLY APPRECIATED. I have felt trapped for some time now and just need some help to get out from under my financial dependance upon my own parents and my daughters father-(combined, we manage to just get by while we all three share a room at my parents house.)

I'm a 56 year old woman who entered the workplace late in life and divorced even later. I have only a high school education and no useful training. As I get older I am less and less able to meet the physical demands that manual labor impose on an aging body. I foresee myself as needing to continue working at least until I'm 70 in order to have enough money to live on after retirement. I need help in getting some sort of training or, preferably, education in a field that would make fewer or less strenuous demands on me. I support myself as a utility laborer in a factory and am not able to achieve any educational goals unaided.

I have ran a very productive in home daycare for the last 6 years and currently have a growing waiting list to get into my home daycare.  I would like to purchase an existing home and make it into a small daycare facility that offers preschool, and care open to all shifts and open Monday thru Saturday.  If anyone could help me find what I can do to get help starting this up please email me or comment to this.  Thanks!!

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My name is Tewanda Williams and I am a thirty seven year old female with three children. Over the  years my financial situation has been deteriorating. My current situation is as follows I am currently living in Public Assistance Housing, my debt is so heavy that I'm not able to meet my financial obligations ;currently filing bankruptcy seems like the only option. I don't have transportation and I need to get back and forth to work. I am currently working as a Secretary at a Doctor's Office but the pay is minimal. I am planning on going to College in the Fall Semester at Calhoun Community College and I really need assistance.

I am a single parent currently enrolled in a 4 yr college with loans covering my tuition.  I have no income and living expenses are necessary.

I am a looking for grants to help me pay off some debts and to start my own business. I am a minority woman in need of help. Please respond if anyone can help me.

Need help on writting a business Plan for my new business I started 7/05, I'm a minority women with Garcia last name, with a contractors speciality license.  I need help with a business grant to buy equipment and build a shop, purchase land.

I am in the process of starting an volunteer program for university students to work with women and children in rural Latin America.  Are there grants that can help me pay for the expenses? 

I NEED HELP!!!!! CANCEL CHRISTMAS...I have run into a lot of problems in the past few years. Instead of things getting better they are getting worse. I am a currently a housewife taking care of my two small children..I lost my job a lttle over a year ago at wich point I was pregnant and unable to find a new job, in someways it was a blessing because I am getting to watch my children grow..I am looking for any help. Most website's I have gone to about grants say they are free but they are not !!! I need to pay my bills before I have nothing left. I am scared todeath and think I am suffering from depression. The worst feeling in the world is not knowing what is going to happen. If it was just me I could find a way, but I have babies involved and I want to give them the best life I can.. This is terrible that so many people are having the same trouble!! It is hard to even put a smile on my face for my kids anymore. I have failed as a person, mother, wife, daughter & friend. And I have no hope left in me, I have have tried everything I can think of and don't know what else to do....   :(

I am a single woman, looking for money to help purchase my first home.  I would use any assistance for downpayment, renovations, insurance, mortgage, etc...

I would like to buy my dream house.

I have a small business located in Martinsville, IN.  I have a disability, and I have worked for several years through Vocational Rehabilitation to help other people with disabilities.  The state funds grew smaller, so I saw the need to hire two employees and expand in October, 2004.  We made a business plan, and tried to get grants, but anything we could find was for non-profits.  We built two websites, hoping to make money on those while waiting for the process for certifications to start home modification assessments, design, for aging and disabled for medicaid. So far, I have encumbered $100,000 already building small business.  It took so long to get the certifications we needed that, now that we have our certifications, and are starting to work the projects, I am running out of funds to pay my employees and keep my business going, not to mention all the loans I have incurred to pay my employees on startup.  We spent $6,000 on a grant consultant company that was a hoax, because all they could really offer was grants for non-profit.  We are not non-profit.  We are a for-profit, sole proprietor business which helps people with disabilities and aging. We now have our certifications, and have met with aging and disabled offices that will be using our services, but there will be more time involved in actually working those cases, billing, and receiving our money from the state.  I am out of resources at this point, and need help.