I was browsing a website about virtual assistant certification when I found www.governmentgrant.com and thought it might be worth checking out. I also know they have info on government grants on some of the .gov websites. This could be a good source of money to give a great start up for newbies like me. I don't know anything more about it at this point, but thought it could be useful.

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Serita Diana, the List 2 Close Assistant
REVA Academy

After further research on recovery.gov I found out the grants are not for small businesses, but rather with those of 16 employees or more. I did find another site, www.womensnet.net that gives grants at various times. It is called the Amber Grant and the amount is $500 to $1000 dollars. Hopefully this will be useful to someone here.

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Serita Diana, the List 2 Close Assistant
REVA Academy

I have been looking for ways to start up but can't. Were you successful with either of these?

Thanks this is very good information.

Hey guys, I have to speak up here. This is just a way to suck you into a membership that you have to pay for.

http://www.grants360.com/external/terms

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Clicking the buy button will activate your trial membership with Grants 360 and provide instructions to the supplied email address! To activate your trial membership to Grants 360 your card will be charged $1.95 and then you can immediately take advantage of the exciting savings Grants 360 has to offer! After your 1 day trial period it's just $57.61 for each 30 days for Grants 360. Remember, you can chat with a live operator by calling 1.866.955.1669 within the 1 day period to cancel or emailing us at support@grants360.com and providing detailed information to enable us to process your request, and you will not be charged. As an exclusive bonus we are offering our customers 2 days of unlimited access to our work from home guide for a charge of $1.95. Cancel anytime during the trial period to avoid any further charges. Otherwise, a one-time fee of $38.21 will be charged to your credit card. Marking the checkbox and submitting the form constitutes an agrement to these terms on your part.

Also, please do a search on 'grants360 scam' (or any other grant site) - you will get a lot of hits. Here is one such report from Ripoff Report: http://www.ripoffreport.com/Loans/Gr...-day-3346b.htm

These "government grant" sites are a dime a dozen on the Internet and not legitimate. One tipoff is that the site is not a .gov site. Another is asking for any form of payment - government grants do NOT charge you any type of fee for anything. Ever.

Check out http://www.bbb.org/us/article/ftc--%...-grant-ed-4873 for more information. A small excerpt of this long :

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The only official access point for all federal grant-making agencies is www.grants.gov.

Hope this info was helpful. Please don't get sucked in by these types of sites. Caveat emptor and due diligence really apply when it comes to this.

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Jules, SunRise Virtual Solutions - WordPress Customization & XHTML/CSS Web Sites

I have to agree with Jules. I have heard about a lot of scams on these government grant sites so do your research.

Mimi

Hi

I wasn't aware that anything like this was possible, so thank for the heads-up.

Tania