Best Places To Start For Anything • Best Starting Places For Money To Start Or Expand A Business • Best Starting Places For Money To Buy Or Fix Up A Home • Best Starting Places to Find Money For Education and Training • Help Paying Your Mortgage Or Buying A Home • Rid Yourself Of Debt Collectors • The Best Way To Get Gov’t Money For Anything • $2,000 Worth of Free Prescription Drugs • Emergency Help To Pay Your Bills • Money For Taking Care of Seniors • $10,000 To Buy A Van or Talking Computer • Free Help, Money And Training For Divorced Women • Need Money For A Loved One With A Disability… • Don’t Hire Anyone To Collect Your Past Child Support... • Free Help Getting Money For A Disability… • $5,000 Worth of Free Health Care for Kids
 
Best Places To Start For Anything:
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Another good starting place to get free help identifying free government programs and services is the Federal Information Center at http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/, or call 1-800-FED-INFO.
Best Starting Places For Money To Start Or Expand A Business:
1) Catalog Of Federal Domestic Assistance
This is the government’s major source of federal money programs. I even copy from this book. Nothing in the Government is copyrighted. http://www.cfda.gov
2) Your State Department of Economic Development
Every state has offices that will help you for free with any aspect of a business or non-profit organization. They will also have their own grant and loan programs at the state level. Find your state economic development office at http://www.govengine.com/
3) Your City and County Governments
Contact your city and county officials at http://www.govengine.com/localgov/index.html . Almost every local jurisdiction has money they get from state or federal governments for entrepreneurs. If your county doesn’t have what you need, check the counties around you. Go where the money is.
4) Local Non-Profit Organizations
There are thousands of local non-profits and local economic development agencies that help entrepreneurs with money and free services. Some even offer money for people who have no money. A good place to start for locating only some of these groups is http://www.microenterpriseworks.org/nearyou/ Check your local library for more local sources.

Best Starting Places For Money To Buy Or Fix Up A Home

1) Catalog Of Federal Domestic Assistance
Anyone selling you information about federal programs or real estate has to get the information from this book. We all copy from it. It is the major source of all federal programs. Search for housing and real estate in http://www.cfda.gov
2) Your State Housing Authority
Every state has offices that will help you buy or fix up real estate. Go to http://www.govengine.com/ and look for your state housing office for information about all their programs.
3) Your City and County Governments
Contact your city and county officials. Almost every local jurisdiction has money for housing and real estate. Many have money for closing costs, down payments, repairs and even rental assistance. It will take some effort but it's worth the time. Look at http://www.govengine.com/localgov/index.html
4) Local and National Non-Profit Organizations
There are thousands of non-profits groups that help homeowners. They can be groups that offer down payment money, closing cost money and even technical assistance. It may take a considerable amount of time to find them all. Your local library can be of help.
5) Other places
Housing Counseling Center Locator, 800-569-4287 or 800-217-6970 or http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/hcc/hcc_home.cfm For help identifying more money programs contact the Office of Community Planning and Development at 800-998-9999 or http://www.comcon.org

Best Starting Places to Find Money For Education and Training

1) Catalog Of Federal Domestic Assistance
All the federal programs for education and training are in this book. Search it for free at http://www.cfda.gov
2) Your State Department Of Higher Education
Every state government has programs that offer financial assistance for higher education. Contact your state government to identify the programs in your state http://www.govengine.com/
3) Money To Train For a Better Job
Every state has training money to get you a better job. Some even provide living expenses, day care money and travel expenses while you train for a new job. Find out what your state has to offer by contacting your local One–Stop Job Information Center that is run by your State Department of Labor, http://www.govengine.com/ or http://www.servicelocator.org/
4) Scholarships
There are thousands of private (non-government) scholarships available from non-profit organizations. No one source has a list of all of these scholarships. Not even my book. The best thing to do is to go to the library, or better yet go to the local bookstore, and sit down and look through a dozen or so scholarship books. You don’t have to buy anything. You just have to sit there and copy down the 5 or 10 scholarships that are in each book that apply to you. AND APPLY TO THEM ALL.
Help Paying Your Mortgage Or Buying A Home
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has set up thousands of non-profit organizations around the country that offer free help if you are having trouble paying your rent or mortgage. Some even offer money. Contact: Counseling Center Locator 800-569-4287 or 800-217-6970 http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/hcc/hcc_home.cfm
Rid Yourself Of Debt Collectors
Learn how you can stop bill collectors from calling you and even fix up your own credit by getting free copies of Fair Debt Collection, Credit Repair: Self-Help May Be Best, Fiscal Fitness: Choosing a Credit Counselor, at…… http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/menu-credit.htm
The Best Way To Get Gov’t Money For Anything
Your elected representatives are in the business of seeing how they can help you locate money, services or anything else you need. They all have people on their staff who’s job it is to do just that for voters. This is why politicians are always getting re-elected. If they do a favor for you, you will vote for them forever, no matter what they do.

• You have 1 congressman and 2 senators at the federal level. You can contact all 3.
• You have more than one elected official in your state capital.
• You also have an elected representative at your city and county level.

Contact them all. They are all getting a government salary to help you and they all have access to different resources. The worst that can happen is that more than one person solves your problem. If you need help finding them go to http://www.govengine.com/. OR your local library.
$2,000 Worth of Free Prescription Drugs
Make over $40,000 and get all but Viagra. Drug companies will give certain people who cannot afford their medications their drugs free of charge. Your doctor will likely have to sign a form, and then the company will ship the medications to you or the doctor. To receive a listing of drug companies, check out the website at http://www.helpingpatients.org/ . Also contact your state department of health at http://www.govengine.com . Many state governments also have financial help for drugs.

Emergency Help To Pay Your Bills
If you need emergency money to pay a bill, or for housing, training, health care, or just additional support, these organizations can be of service and they are likely to have an office near you. Although these are private organizations, they do receive a portion of their funds from your favorite Uncle Sam.

Community Action Agencies
Nearly 1,000 agencies around the country receive funds from the U.S. Government’s Community Services Block Grants to offer education, counseling, employment, training, food packages, vouchers, weatherization and utility assistance, life skills, affordable housing, transportation, furnishings, recreation, emergency services, information and referral services. To locate an agency serving your area, contact: Community Action Partnership, 1100 17th St., NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20036; 202-265-7546; Fax: 202-265-8850; http://www.communityactionpartnership.com/
Catholic Charities
Over 14,000 local organizations offer a variety of services for many different communities including: child care, elderly services, emergency financial services, emergency shelter, food pantries, housing assistance, job training, out-of-home care, parenting education, youth services, rental assistance, utility assistance, and health care. For an office near you, contact Catholic Charities USA, 1731 King Street #200, Alexandria, VA 22314; 703-549-1390; Fax: 703-549-1656; http://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org
Salvation Army
Families in need can receive a wide range of services including: utility assistance, transitional housing, emergency food, furnishings, Section 8 tenant counseling, counseling, rent or mortgage assistance, and even clothing. Most services are for households who are below 150% of the poverty level (about $24,000 for family of 4). For an office near you, contact Salvation Army National Headquarters, 615 Slaters Lane, P.O. Box 269, Alexandria, VA 22313; 703-684-5500; Fax: 703-684-3478; http://www.salvationarmy.org .
Money For Taking Care of Seniors
Get money for grandma to fix up her home, get free in-home services, get help checking out a nursing home that is not treating dad right. You can get free help for solving most any problem you have with a senior in your life. Contact Eldercare Locator, National Association of Area Agencies on Aging, 1-800-677-1116 (9am to 8pm EST) http://www.n4a.org.
$10,000 To Buy A Van or Talking Computer
Learn how technology can help your disability and money programs to purchase equipment. Contact your state Office of Social Services or Vocational Rehabilitation or Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA), 1700 North Moore St., #1540, Arlington, VA 22209; 703-525-6686; 703-524-6639 (TTY); http://www.resna.org
Free Help, Money And Training For Divorced Women
A national network of over 1000 programs that helps identify free consulting, training and financial assistance to help women enter or reenter the workforce. Contact Women Work!, National Network for Women’s Employment, 1625 K St., Suite 300, Washington, DC 20006; 800-235-2732; http://www.womenwork.org
What To Do When Disability Benefits Are Denied…
These advocacy groups can help:
---Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, 510-644-2555, http://www.dredf.org
---Washington Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities, 206-545-7055, http://www.wccd.org
Need Money For A Loved One With A Disability…
… . Contact one of the relevant organizations that will assist you in finding the money and help you need to deal with your disability at http://www.napas.org/other%20pages/Disability%20related%20websites%20page.htm
Don’t Hire Anyone To Collect Your Past Child Support……
…… . because the same people who brought you “Desert Storm” and “Iraqi Freedom” will liberate your child support for free. Go to http://www.childsupport-aces.org/ and learn how private child support collection agencies can be big rip offs.
Free Help Getting Money For A Disability….
……… .. can start by contacting a free service called The Clearinghouse on Disability Information, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Dept. of Education, 202-205-8241, http://www.ed.gov/offices/OSERS/
…… for help with getting money for education and training contact Higher Education and Adult Training for People with Handicaps (HEATH), George Washington University, 800-544-3284, http://www.heath.gwu.edu/
$5,000 Worth of Free Health Care for Kids
Make up to $38,657 and get free health care for your kids. Almost every state now has a Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIPS), which extends medical coverage to many children who may not be covered. Contact your state Department of Health to see what version of the CHIPS program is offered in your area; or call a new government hotline to help locate free health care for kids at 877-KIDS-NOW (toll-free 877-543-7669); {http://www.insurekidsnow.gov}.
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