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There are several types of grants available for college students. Students could receive federal Pell grants, federal opportunity grants, and teacher education grants.
Federal loans and federal grants.
The federal government does in fact have a website that details different types of grants and scholarships at http://studentaid.ed.gov/types/grants-scholarships It is easy to navigate and provides many additional links for your niece's research.
Block grant
Any types that are a federal or private loan. Grants such as pell grants aren't paid back.
You don't. The business.gov website spells it out pretty plainly: "The federal government does not provide grants for starting and expanding a business". http://www.business.gov/finance/financing/grants/
I'm not aware of any federal small business grants. However, the state often has prgrams in order to help out small businesses, you my be able to find a grant from your state.
Today, Congress appropriates money for three types of grants-in-aid: Categorical grants: made for some specific, closely defined, purpose.Block grants: for some particular but broadly defined area of public policy.Project grants: made for some specific projects to States, localities, and private agencies who apply for them.
A project grant is a grant-in-aid that has to be applied for. The federal government provides several different types of grants.
It is very common for the Federal Government to make grants to the fifty states, and very common for states to make grants to local governments. Categorical grants are not to be confused with general grants or unencumbered funds, which can be applied toward anything in the state/local budget. Categorical grants could be for improving road conditions, health care, law enforcement, fire protection, etc. In that case, the funds could only be applied to the category of road repair, health care, etc., thus they are called cateogical.
While there are still no direct small business grants available from the federal government, many state development agencies offer direct small business grants and other types of financial assistance designed to encourage and assist entrepreneurs in starting or expand a small business.
There are different types of student loans available to college students for college: # Federal Subsidized Stafford Loans # Federal Unsubsidized Stafford Loans # Federal Perkins Loans # Federal PLUS Loans # Private/Alternative Student Loans Other sources of financial aid are: * Scholarships * Grants * Work-Study