If you are in search of grant money, then consider this article very carefully. The more sources for grants you know, the more chances to get money you have. Of course you know what you need the money for: tuition, textbooks, living expenses, transportation, free time and other student expenses.
Let’s look for the sourсes. Firstly, do you know anything about Ted Kennedy, a senate chairperson of the education committee? This person and President Bush decided that that over $20 billion would go to the Pell grant program and you can be the lucky one who will get the money.
I ma sure you know what Pell grants is. But you probably do not know yet, that more people will receive the money through it in the future. And now let us dwell on more sources you need to know about.
First of all, the National Sea Grant College Program, an office of the federal government which conducts research of seas and oceans. The grants they offer are aimed to college students who live in the coastal area. And taking into consideration that coastline is a lot of states, this grant is worth attention. Here is the website:
http://www. education.noaa.gov/ students.html
Secondly, another college grant program is NASA, which has a number of good programs for students of all levels if you are in your last year in a University, it may finance your research project. Consider the following address:
http:/ /www. nasa.gov/
The programs mentioned are very good. But for them there are some federal government offers ( except for Pell grant, of course), such as the Federal Supplemental Equal Opportunity Grant (FSEOG), the Academic Competitiveness Grant (ACG), and the Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent Grant (SMART grants). Here is the address where you may find all the details:
http:/ /studentaid.ed.gov/PORTALSWebApp /students/english/ grants.jsp
As you see, there are a lot of opportunities you simply do not know about, so keep on searching and you will succeed anyway.