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For those who want to help, or those asking for help, you should be aware of an important resource from which you can both give and receive money.

PayPal (www.paypal.com) makes it possible for you to send and receive money in as large or small amounts as desired, at no cost to either the sender or the receiver. It helps, of course, if you have a personal bank account, with a debit card, but you do not even need that.

You can open a PayPal account directly, and keep your cash in that account. PayPal will, at your request, issue a debit card, from which you can withdraw, and pay anyone who accepts credit cad payments. You can use that same card to go to any ATM machine, to withdraw cash.

All it takes to open an account with them is a personal email address, and a verifiable physical mailing address. 

I see a large number of those in this group looking for grants. There are some things you need to know, before you start searching for assistance:

1. There are plenty of FREE resources listing all the grants that are available. You should never pay anything for obtaining grant information.

2. There are very few grants directly available for individuals. Ordinarily, you must belong to some identifiable group, such as those with disabilities, members of a particular cultural or ethnic group, those affiliated with some religious organization, or some other belonging to some specific civic group.

3. If you find a grant which applies to your situation, writing the application is usually a long and complicated process. Many grants have a specific application deadline, with any applications received beyond that point not even considered.

4. Even if accepted it can be several months before you here from the grant provider, and months more before you receive the grant. So, if you are looking for immediate assistance – forget it… it’s not going to happen. As an example, I receive Section 8 Housing (rent) assistance. It took me more than a year from the time I first submitted my application, to the first payment being made to my landlord.

Keeping those things in mind, here are some things you can do. If you want a full and complete database of available grant information, go to www.fedmoney.com. You can download this database free, and review everything which might apply to you. Every Grant listed tells you not only the requirements, but how to apply, deadlines for application, and other information as well.

Regardless of what you find about grants that are available, you should make appointments with any or all of the following, depending on where you live.

·       For information about what assistance your city can provide, contact the office of your City Council Member.

·       For information about County Services, contact the office of your County Supervisor.

·       For information about the services which the Federal Government can provide, contact the local office of your Congressperson. The staff at that office can assist you in locating other Federal Government resources, besides those provided by any granting organizations.

·       If you are affiliated with any organized religious faith, you need to talk with a local minister or pastor for the Church you attend, or belong to.

·       Go to http://www.craigslist.org/about/sites, and find the city closes to you. Select that city, and go to the Jobs offered. This is updated every day. You also should post your own resume, describing in detail what you can offer an employer. You should both check for new jobs and post your resume daily, since employers will only be looking at current postings.

·       Finally, if you have some unique or very desperate situation, consider contacting both your local TV station(s) as well as any local talk radio shows in yur area. If your situation is interesting enough, you will often get publicity, which can result either in a job offer, or offers of assistance.

There is one basic rule you should follow, whenever considering offers of employment, whether working from home or at the worksite. If the employer requires you to make any payment in any form, IT IS A SCAM.

You can do several things to look for work. Go to http://www.craigslist.org/about/sites, and find the city closest to your home. Then both check the job listings, and post your resume there. There are all kinds of legitamate FREE  job boards offering all kinds of jobs that you can sign up for, search the jobs for which you are qualified, and post your own resume.

Stay away from any email from someone  you do not know, or have requested. 

To anyone considering this -- THIS IS A TOTAL SCAM! There are literally dozens of Public Record databases available to anyone, with search fees ranging from $1.99 to $39.95, depending on what is being searched. The list of people earning money has got to be a fake, which anyone can put together.

Don't waste your money on this, let alone encourage anyone else to get involved!

You may be able to get treatment by finding the closest dental school in your area. Their srudents treat all kind of dental probelms, whilebeing supervised by their trained instructors. Generally, this work is either free or at very reduced prices, from what you would pay going to a licensed dentist.

Without knowing anything about the company, or your geographic region, my guess would be that you have not recieved an application, because your address is probably outside the service range of that provider, so they have no reason to send you an application for service they cannot provide to you.

You probaby would be best to contact either AT&T, Versison, Sprint, or T-Mobile for Cell phone service. 

If you are seeking a broadband conection for your computer, DirecTV,  Dish, or a local sattelite provider may be the way to go for you, especailly if you are in a rural location.

There are three ways to obtain information on this. (1) Do a web search for Section 8 Housing, looking for contact information for your local area; (2) Find the name of the County Commsissioner representing the area in which your city is found; (3) Contact the officce of the Congressperson for your district, for contact information.

Unfortunately, there is a long waiting list for action. I waited approximately one year from first application until I received my Grant. Since funding is administered by the local community in which you live, here will be wide variations in the availability of this plan.  Additionally, you must find  a landlord willing to partcipate in the program.Many do not, for a couple of reasonns. First, they get a lot of unsavory apllicants, often those withe criminal backgounds, who are engaged in all kinds of troublesome activity. Once placed, htey are far harder to evict, tha is the usual lessee. The other resistance comes from the he extremeinspection requirements. In my case, they demaded that the apartment be completely replainted and fumigated, although there was no need to do so. This means the landlord has to pay for all of this maintenance work to be done, which many are unwilling to do.

The upside to you is, once you are accepted, you are qualified for the rest of your life, any where you choose to live, so long as your income qualifies, and any new place you wish to move to meets the inspection requirements.

Getting on the program requires patience, and a willingness to put up with some long waits, and some really nasty civil service drones.

Good liuck to you.

Contac the office of your Congressperson. All have exactly the same grant information, free of charge, which is exactly what all the information vendors use to get their information.

At the same time, set up a meeting with his/her staff at the local office. They may be able to give you other ideas for getting direct assistance.

This may sound completely obvious, but have you met with someone in the Financial Aid Office of your school? Every univerity/college in the United States has a department such as this, not only to provide direct financial aid in a variety of ways, but to provide counselling and assitance to its students.

If you are going to get help from anyone posting here, you need to provide many more details of your situation -- The school you are attending, (or are applying to attend), It's location (city/state), and some specifics about your needs (tuition/books/room and board or personal living expenses, etc.). Also, talk a little about the resources you have .. family, current work, etc. Other than financial, are there any handicaps, physical or mental which are barriers to attending school?

Are you just starting, nearing graduation, or are you looking for asssitance in attending graduate school? What is your major field of interest.

In short, you have to think about this problem as though you were going to war, and map out a strategy by which you can win -- in these extremely difficult times, you need to put all of this informaton together, so that you can use every possible resource to your advantage.

This sounds interesting, but your short comment provides no information to elicit futher interest. You need to describe specifically the products or services you plan to offer, and also the expected geographic reach of the customer or client base. Unfortunately those reading this site are not, by and large, drawn from the pool of professionals you are seeking. A brief sampling of the profiles reveal that the majority of partcipants in this site are young to middle-aged women, in all liklihood lacking in any the skills you say you seek.Thus, you need to find other sites, with a readereship more likely to be composed of those from who you seek to elicit interest.

Please take this as constructice criticism, but you need to be far more careful in your writing, As a former educator, past operator of two multi-million dollar technology businesses, researcher and author of many articles and an online book, I can tell you with certainty that anyone considering your proposal will be stopped dead in their tracks, when seeing the spelling and grammatical errors so glaringly evident, in this short, and largely uninformative posting. 

I'd be interested in hearing more from you. Feel free, if you are so inclined, to respond by private message to me.

 In the meantime, best of luck as you move forward in your efforts to move your plan from the idea stage, to reality.

You obiously know nothing about the patent process. First you must build a demonstrable working model of your idea. Next, you muist do a patents search to make sure there are no other patents, either granted or pending. Finally, you will need to retain counsel to handle the complex process of patent application.

You really need to do your own homework, and  learn aobut the process before wasting the time of readers.

You don't have to pay for this information. Find the Home Page for your Congressperson. Almost all have a page with links to all Federal and private foundation grants, with qualifications requiired and instructions for filing a grant application.

DanaM

See my comment above.

 Hopeful_Guy

Since this is a matter involving child support, your best starting place would be the office of the District Attorney, for the county in which you currently live. Thst office has the responsibility for enforcing payment of court ordered child support, regardless of the reasons that your ex-husband has failed to pay.

There are many young male adults who have their own problems, which are unique to them. This group is designed for discussion among this specific group struggling to manage their lives.

Just happened to run across your posts today (January 24, 2009).

In all candor, I have to tell you that your request for funds looks like, at best, you have no idea what you are doing, and at worst, just a plain  old garden-variety scam. You tell your readers you want to "build a website," and that you are a "self taught webmaster." If true, you  certainly are aware of the many free site building tools, readily available. Why then do you require funds toconstruct your website?

You say nothing whatever regarding the buisiness that the site is expected to advertise. At the very least, any investor in your plan would expect to see a detailed description of the product or service to be advertised on the site, some analysis of potential market demand, and some sales and expense projections for at least five years from the startup of the business -- in short, don't expect any money from anyone, until you have done your homework.

My problem is very simple. I need financial assistance.

At 73, with limited  mobility, I am unable to find a position which will meet my minimum monthly finanancial needs.

I am a trained and once highly successful behavioral science researcher, having had a career as an academic, founder of two successful software companies, independent consultant, with my last position as a senior researcher with a large technical services company.

Five years ago, I was laid off in a mass workforce reduction. Within a short period, I was hit with a number of health problems, all of which I have recovered from, with the exception of Spinal Stenosis. This condition makes walking very difficult. That coupled with the need for short naps and some respiratory difficulty, makes full time work outside my apartment impossible.

While I blog, and write for a number of publications, and have gotten some intermittent consulting work, none of this provides me with anywhere near enough income to meet my mounting bills -- mostly from high interest loans I have taken, just to keep things going.

I have expertise in statistical and forensic document analysis, and having succesfully prosecuted my own wage an hour lawsuit against my former employer, having thus developed a lot of knowledge about employmengt law. (I do some consulting for attorneys specializing in empoloyment law.) I can also do online tutoring, and have all that is needed to be effective with this

While complete financial collapse is some months away, I am looking for any ideas or offers of work, which can help me stave off what appears inevitable.

I am single, with no remaining family, and no friends who can give me financial assistance. 

Looking further down the road, if anything happens where I can not care for myself, there is no one out there to act as a caregiver.

For those who may be interested in providing me with any ideas or assistance, I'll tell you now that I live near Los Angeles, and will provide personal information as appropriate.

Thanks in advance for your attention and any response you may carre to make.