Grants For Single Mothers by: Kelly Kennedy
If you are a single mom and struggling to get by, you are not alone. Whether you are going through a divorce or the father is absent most single mother face the burden of supporting themselves and their children all on one income.
- Only fifteen percent of women going through a divorce are awarded any form of court-ordered spousal support.
- Thirty-four percent of those women never receive what is due to them.
- Less than half of the women who claim child support ever receive the full amount.
- Within the first year of divorce a women’s average standard of living falls forty-five percent while a man’s will grow fifteen percent.
What are grants?
A grant is an award of financial assistance. The primary purpose of a grant is to transport a thing of value from a Federal agency to a recipient to carry out a public purpose of support or incentive authorized by a law of the United States. A grant is distinguished for a contact, which is then used to acquire property or services for the Federal government's direct use or benefit.
Grants are associated by company, state, local or tribal government, research institution or academia, not-for-profit, or any other kind of institution.
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Additional Resources
category - Grants for Individuals
US Environmental Protection Agency: Russian Arctic Black Carbon, Reduction of Black Carbon from Diesel SourcesThe Artic Black Carbon: Reduction of Black Carbon from Diesel Sources project offers a funding opportunity to interested applicants as they work towards assessing primary black carbon sources in the Russian Arctic.
National Science Foundation: Geoinformatics Solicitation GrantGeoinformatics is the science and technology of developing and using information service sciences in addressing the problems related to geography, geosciences and other branches associated to engineering.
Grants form the Department of Health and Human ServicesIn the year 1979, the Department of Health and Human Services, otherwise known as HHS, was established in an effort to protect the health of all Americans and to provide essential human services to everyone, especially to those who are least capable of helping themselves.
Family Planning Services GrantsOPHS has recently established a funding opportunity entitled Family Planning Services Grants, a program wherein the OPHS, along with the HHS, will award grants to eligible individuals who seek to operate voluntary family planning services projects that would provide family planning services to everyone who desires to avail of such services, including low-income families in under-served areas.