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Indepth Arts News:
"GRANTS FOR WOMEN & NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS"
0000-00-00 until 0000-00-00
THE GRANT LADY
New York, NY,
USA United States of America
Since 1983, Shakurra Amatulla, as The Grant Lady, has been
demonstrating to women and nonprofit organizations, creative ways to
reach
financial self-empowerment through her national grants newsletter, For
Us
Women Newsletter (FUWN). Shakurra continues the tradition when she
recently
moved FUWN onto the Internet at http://www.grantlady.com.
Shakurra's love for grants research began in the 1980s when she, as a
single mother of four children, sought grants to help pay for a huge gas
bill. She
found not only a writers' group who assisted her with the bill, but also hundreds of other grants virtually ignored by the general public.
To me, a grant equals an opportunity, says Shakurra, a playwright and performing artist who operates For Us Publications from her New York
City home
office. A grant can be an opportunity to jump-start a woman's career,
subsidize her own business, provide economic relief for a struggling
nonprofit organization, or just another way to raise one's self-esteem.
The Grant Lady diligently researches both the national and
international
grant vastland. In past issues she has highlighted not only grants
for women
artist, educational grants and the like, but also grants for older
women,
cultural grants (such as for Irish-Americans, African-Americans, Asians,
etc.), as well as the obscure grants, such as the ones for thoroughbred
racers,
bowlers, psychics . . . even pork lovers! Grants range from $50 to
$1million.
Shakurra takes pains to locate grants which specifically meet her
subscribers'
needs. People are constantly shocked and amazed about the diverse
types of
grants I uncover, says Shakurra. Which goes to prove that for every
dream or
goal you may have, there's either a grant or a number of funding
resources out
there for you to realize those dreams. Shakurra also stresses that her
website is
not limited to just women. I also feature general grants which can be
applied for
by anyone, says the proud grandmother of four grandsons.
The Grant Lady's website offers a free sampling of grants, free how-to
articles on grant research and offers affordable personal consulting
packages.
For Us Women Newsletter subscription price is $25 for 12 Internet issues
and is
available at http://www.grantlady.com.
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