alumni grants

Sportscaster or Politician?

So, I’m a junior in high school and I’ve been thinking about a career as a sportscaster (like Howard Cossel, Al Michaels, or Jack Buck) because I’ve been a HUGE sports fan for as long as i can remember. However, I have also always been interested in politics. When I was little my dream was to become President someday. I don’t know which career path to take. I’m seriously considering going to college at Oklahoma State (6 hours from my home in Little Rock) because they offer a sports media degree. Because no school in AR offers that degree I might get granted resident status. Also my mother is an alumni so I get a legacy scholarship. I’m thinking that majoring in sports media and minoring in political science might be my best option. Then, if i wanted to pursue a
possible political career, I could attend law school in my home town at UALR. Can somebody please give me some advice?

Do what you love. It’s really difficult to get into politics and sportscasting, but it’s worth a shot. It may not work out, but at least when you look back you’ll know you tried your best. I would go into broadcasting because it’s less grueling than politics, where your position is less stable and you have to deal with angry people all of the time. Unless you are firmly committed to making a difference in the world, I would pick broadcasting at OKST.

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RE: How do i get justice for refusing a sexual advance by University admin. then losing my degree. NOT BS!?

I assure you this is not bs. Nobody pays for my tuition expcept the partial grant i received.
I did go to the school. the man that harrased me was the omnsbudsman. Yeah! This became a scandal for the school because my girlfriend committed suicide du to being raped and tortured on a school field trip.
Im unsure how to feel about your reaction and the reaction of the other person. it does sound so outrageous but is true. If fact it is very much a watered down version.
I have all of these comments on tape and email. I have proof of my attendence. Also, they do retroactivly put student loans in default!!!! when JP (the person that abuses power) failed to give me incomplete, the next semester i was dropped from univ. and fin aid. and the next semester because i did complete the previous, etc, etc though i did. Due to being disenrolled, i was not eligable for defferment. Hence, I was in default.
Thanks for your reply.

Take the tapes and copied e mails to an attorney. Be prepared to show that your classwork was up to standard as well. He will need that to show that there could be no other reason that you lost everything.

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university grants 2009

will this affect how much pell grant I receive?

I have received full pell grants for the last 2 years while attending community college. now this fall (fall 2009) i am transferring to a university which will cost me around $21,000/year. I currently have $11k that i made while working these past 2 years. I still would like to get full grants. I have about $11k saved up for extra expenses for college (books, living, food…). I hope to recieve all the financial aid possible since my family makes less than $20,000/year. will i still get full pell grants?

Joe:

I answered this question for you the other day – you must not have liked the answer.

I’ll try again.

Your aid eligibility is determined by your answers to the 100+ questions on the FAFSA. Some of those questions ask about your parents’ assets, some of those questions ask about your assets.

$11,000 in the bank is an appreciable amount of money. As I explained the other day, the financial aid system is predicated on the belief that a student (and the student’s parents) are PRIMARILY responsible for paying the cost of an optional college education.

If you have $11,000 available to you (congratulations on your savings ethic and hard work, by the way), the government rightfully expects you to put some of that money towards your own college education.

I’m not quite understanding why you think that the taxpayers should pay your way through school, so that you can hold onto your money and use it for something more “exciting”.

Theoretically, the most “worthwhile” thing that you can use your savings for is to help buy yourself the education that will enable you to get a great job – and earn a good income. Any investment that you make in your education today will pay off many times over in the future.

When you complete the FAFSA application, you are obligated to acknowledge that you, personally, have $11,000 available to you in savings. That will be analyzed as part of the EFC calculations.

Having $11,000 does not, in any way, make you automatically ineligible for a Pell Grant – based on the answers to your other 100 odd FAFSA questions, you could still perfectly well qualify. If your family actually makes less than $20,000 a year, the chances are still excellent that you will.

On a related note, I hope you are taking into consideration that the maximum Pell award is still less than $5000. You’re not going to get a bigger Pell because your 4-year school costs a lot more than your community college did. That’s not to say that your school will not be able to help you out with institutional forms of aid, and you may well be offered a Work Study assignment, too. My point is that it would be highly unlikely that you are going to receive $21,000 in financial aid. Even if you do get a Pell, there’s a good chance that you will have to dip into that $11,000 account to help pay part of your own way through school.

Hopefully you’ll like this answer more than you apparently liked the last one. You may get other answers, but they’re not going to be more factual or correct than this one.

Good luck to you!

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writing grants

How do you get grants for repair’s to your home.I am a paraplejic. And I am not good at writing up anything.

I have trouble writing sense my car accident and I have been told you write up letter’s for grants and they see is if you wrote your letter good enough you can reseve help from grant’s.

In arkansas, where i live, there is an organization called “Arkansas Rehab” that can and does help people pay for services that they need to their home or things that they might need but aren’t able to afford. I think it depends on income, individual cases, needs, etc. but you might could search around on the internet for a similar service based on which state you live in.

Another idea: you could maybe contact a local service organization, or a church group and see if they might could help you out in some way. i’ve worked with a couple of groups of people and it is always rewarding for workers as well as for the people that are benefiting from the fixing up.

Last idea: contact a college (primarily the occupational therapy, interior design, or architecture departments) in your area and see if the students or the faculty would be interested in doing a project to help you out with the work that you need.

I don’t think that you need to look into government grants. That is a long drawn out process that would probably only be useful if you were in need of a very large sum of money.

Anyways, good luck with everything

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are grants taxed

Taxes on Grants and student loans?

I have a few student loans from last year and a couple pell grants. And since tax season is almost here, i just want to know whats going to happen? Do i pay taxes on the money i recieved for college? Also, I barely worked bc i was taking so many classes. But I have to file to recieve further financial aide. So am i going to pay out of pocket? or will the taxes still be income based?

For the grants no I also received them for my education but student loans they only charge you for APR like on a credit card. They arent allowed to tax that money because it is like a credit. I hope you understand lol i couldnt make it very simple.

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The ‘80/20’ Rule in Ghana’s Banking Industry, is it Helping Us?

Call it the ‘80/20 Rule’, ‘Law of the Vital Few and Trivial Majority’ or the ‘Pareto Principle ’ ‘, it will still have its inherent principles as revealed by the Italian economist in 1906.

Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto, an Italian economist, after a careful study of the daily economic activities or many phenomena in Italy observed that 80 percent of properties in Italy were owned by 20 percent of the population. He made this observation after having stayed and worked in Italy for almost 37 years (1868 to 1893). Later, Pareto observed this same trend in action in other parts of life such as gardening: 80 percent of his peas were produced by 20 percent of the peapods.

In fact, many experts and authorities in their fields of study have applied this rule to many facets of human activities ranging from business to horse racing (or sports in general). For instance, Bryan Eisenberg (2002) made the following applications to the Pareto Principle by way of questions: Does 20 percent of your sales force produce 80 percent of revenues? Do 20 percent of your products account for 80 percent of product sales? Do 80 percent of customer complaints arise from 20 percent of your products or services? etc.

In Ghana, just like in any other country, one can observe this law of the vital few and trivial many at play in diverse areas. In football, as an example, 20 percent of the total number of clubs in the premier league almost always wins 80 percent of the trophies presented by the Ghana Football Association.

The Ghanaian banking industry is no exception when it comes to observing the 80/20 rule in action. In fact, one can even say that it is the sector that is dominated by this principle. Real banking is meant for the few rich as they benefit from all facets of banking especially when it comes to accessibility of credits.

Researches conducted by institutions of high repute as well as some individual researchers have revealed two interest rate spreads – the difference between deposit and lending rate – within the banking industry. Using the averages of deposit and lending rates prevalent in the industry, these two different spreads can be observed.

In Ghana, high net-worth clientele (credit worthy customers) of the commercial banks are offered high savings deposit rates averaging around 13% as against low lending rate averaging about 20% – Centre for Policy Analysis (2006). Customers who fall within this category – spread one – constitute the 20 percent in Pareto’s principle i.e. the ‘Vital Few’.

The large majority of customers whose savings deposits constitute a small portion of the total liability base of the commercial banks – low net-worth clientele – are offered low savings deposit rates and granted loans at very high lending rates. The gap between these two extremes constitutes spread two. In fact, the large majority of customers who fall within the category of spread two are charged lending rates of about 32% percent in real terms with deposit interest rates of about 1 percent. It is this category of clients that Pareto refers to as the ‘Trivial Majority’.

This prevailing situation in no way facilitates the growth of the small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) sector of the Ghanaian economy. Small businesses in Ghana finds it difficult – if not impossible – to grow and expand their scale of operations. Also, the overall savings culture of this trivial majority group may continue to dwindle since they are discouraged to save.

My passionate appeal therefore is that, the Central Bank should continue to make processes and terms required to establish financial institutions more flexible so as to benefit small and medium scale businesses. Though the Bank of Ghana should continue to grant more licenses to foreign banks to increase the competition prevalent in the banking industry this must be done cautiously.

Whether we like it or not, the Pareto Principle is in action within the Ghanaian banking industry. And what we can do is to support the call for banks to lower their interest rates and come out with more innovative products to support the SMEs.

About the Author

Graduated from the University of Ghana in May 2006 with a second class upper division in B.A.degree Economics.

Currently, I am a Research Assistant at the Centre for Budget Advocacy of the Integrated Social Development Centre (a rights-based advocacy Ghanaian NGO)

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federal grants scholarships

Government Grants Scholarships That Will Help Every Students

Why don’t we point out how every twelfth grade student, attempting to get geared up all the way to graduate during this early spring and furthermore, they are probably struggling to make a decision about their foreseeable future. Handful of mom and dad have their hard earned money stored any more in support of his or her kid’s  the good education furthermore for the most part teenagers really don’t generate a sufficient amount throughout any kind of part time paid position in order to spend to get the brand new clothing, let alone 4 years to do with university, as a result just what exactly are they able to do? The good thing is, the federal government grants scholarships to help myriad of those in school, providing just about any one having access to a good solid university education.

On the other hand, possibly you might have previously long gone to university and you seem to be employed in some sort of business which has turned out to be obsolete. Countless automotive employees located in Michigan are suffering from this – a powerful enterprise the experts claim was previously healthy plus pay off excellent wages at the moment rarely gives you positions, which means that you have to take advantage of retrained. The government grants scholarships in support of re-training as well as re-educating oneself so you ensure you can change for better jobs.

Just before you decide to mention, “Actually my degree’s grades are not any decent”, allowed myself let you know that the degrees really do not mean much. Neither that your entire credit stability or perhaps your company certain employment master plan. The us government primarily would like to ensure in which their citizen could possibly get some sort of  the good knowledge and furthermore carry out just about anything can make these folks completely satisfied – comfortable citizens in positions which these people prefer almost never carry on joblessness (costing this particular federal government  the abundance of funds!).

Hence, regardless of college you happen to be thinking about, keep in mind that the government grants scholarships, delivering financial resources which unfortunately would not need to be paid back again. If you possibly could acquire this amazing amount of money to formulate your knowledge, you should not ought to depend on student education loans or perhaps a borrowing on the credit card, only just to enter college. Federal government grants will most certainly be the least expensive coupled with most simplified, approach to enter college, complete college, acquire educated in a very unique area, and frequently going through greater education. Reunite to the seat of learning!

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grant uk solar

has anyone living in uk got a grant for converting to solar energy?

B & Q are advertising that one is available.
We got a Grant for installing a Sinkerator (waste disposer in sink).
Had solar panels put on the roof a month or so ago and not used any power for heating water since – even with the overcast skies and rain, the water is way up to temperature before we shower in the morning. I think the system is called “SMART energy” if anyone is interested. Got to spend the kids inheritance somehow!

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beauty grants

Are there any grants or state or federal aid for a tanning, beauty salon in Michigan?

It is hard to find grants to start a business such as a beauty salon, whether federal or state.

Unlike the myths that some perpetuate, federal government and even private foundations hardly give grant money for a for-profit business. And yes, grants mean PAPERWORK – lots and lots of it, that is why a cottage industry of grant writers was born.

Nonetheless, you can go to the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) http://www.cfda.gov and Grants.gov http://www.grants.gov – these are two sites created by the federal government to provide transparency and information on grants. Browse through the listings and see if you can find any grant that would support a for-profit venture.

Even if you buy books on “how to get grants” or list that supposedly has information on grants — all of them are mere rehash of what CFDA has, albeit packaged differently. But still the info is the same – hardly any grants for starting a for profit business.

Even SBA does NOT give out grants. From the SBA website http://www.sba.gov/expanding/grants.html…

“The U.S. Small Business Administration does not offer grants to start or expand small businesses, although it does offer a wide variety of loan programs. (See http://www.sba.gov/financing for more information) While SBA does offer some grant programs, these are generally designed to expand and enhance organizations that provide small business management, technical, or financial assistance. These grants generally support non-profit organizations, intermediary lending institutions, and state and local governments.”

Here is a listing of federal grants for small businesses. See if there is any available for individuals for starting a business — THERE’S NONE.

http://12.46.245.173/pls/portal30/CATALOG.BROWSE_BENEF_RPT.show

Most of the federal grants are given to specific target groups with specific requirements (e.g. minority business owners involved in transportation related contracts emanating from DOT – Grant#20.905 Disadvantaged Business Enterprises Short Term Lending Program

Grants are also often given to non profit groups or organizations involved in training or other similar activities (grant 59.043 Women’s Business Ownership Assistance that are given to those who will create women’s business center that will train women entrepreneurs

For private grants, you may want to check the Foundation Center’s Foundation Grants for Individuals Online. It’s a subscription based website ($9.95 per month) but their opening blurb only says that the database is ideal for “students, artists, academic researchers, libraries and financial aid offices.” Entrepreneurs are apparently not one of them, so I take it they also don’t have listings of private foundations who give grants to would-be entrepreneurs.

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federal grant accounting

How are federal grants accounted for in taxes?

I received a stipend for helping out with research at the university I attend last summer. How do I account for this on my taxes?

It is income to you, regardless of the source, so it would be considered income for tax purposes.

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