Tuesday, March 30, 2010

This one looks interesting - a Project Mom full-ride scholarship

The Project Mom scholarship is available for Moms AND Dads.

To apply, go to the Project Mom website at elearners.com and click on the Apply for Scholarship Now button.  You will tell about yourselves, and then fill out a short essay.

The site also tells you what schools offer what scholarships in your field. When you click on Terms and Conditions, you OK somebody from whatever school offers your degree to call you, which you may or may not want to do.

If you win the Project Mom scholarship, you can go to school tuition free. Hey, I just finished my scholarship essay. And I just found out that I could have waited to complete it and sent it in later. Oh well! For YOU to do this, just scroll down on the form and hit the button below the Submit button.

Good luck! You have until April 27th to go for this scholarship.

-Betsyanne

Monday, March 29, 2010

I want to be a grant writer - and I found some great online deals!

Online Adventures - looking for a Grant Writing Class












I wonder how many other people out there wish they were grant writers. Anyone who has worked for or with a nonprofit wishes they could wave a magic wand and get more money for "their" group, I know.

Today I was thinking (again!) that if I were a grant writer, I could do this. I could apply for money from everywhere - - fill out the forms exactly right, write great introductory letters, and more. But unfortunately, I know exactly NOTHING about grant writing. Well, almost nothing.

But I have seen courses advertised locally. In fact, Western has several in an online catalog called the WKCTC site, which stands for Western Kentucky Community and Technical College. They have classes there at the college, but I am thinking more about taking an online class this time.

It has been a long time since I looked at this site. I am glad I came today, because there are a lot of new courses listed today.

Ed To Go: these classes are online classes I found two years ago. They are listed as part of WKCTC's online classes. Many courses are offered here, and the tuition is reasonable. I saw tuition of 1500.00 at another WKU site for a class in Grant Writing. I found one here for only $95.00. It is called Become a Grant Writing Consultant.

Of course, I may not be able to transfer this course credit over for a degree - but I may not WANT a degree, only the knowledge of how to write grants.

You may be looking for another skill or class. Check here at the site for lots more course offerings.

Here are some courses offered by a NEW group affiliated with WKU Community College calls the Jer Group. They are located at Paducah. They offer Creative Writing (sounds fun), How to find Legitimate Home Employment, Entrepreneurship, E-books, Career and Job Objectives, and lots more.

Just for a price example, the How to Find Legitimate Home Employment class costs only $59.00 plus the cost of the e-book, which is $9.95. That is still a GREAT deal.

I am going to be looking at both sites now to see all the courses that are offered. I think this is a great deal, and so much more affordable for me right now than going back to school as a "regular" student.

Here is another site I found today Hit by a Bus: Writing a Budget that Tells a Story Long after You've Gone. (This is a recorded teleclass about being a grant writer - on sale too) Hmmmm.... This class costs $77.00. Not bad! But it is a private class, not at the community college. The teacher, Johna Rogers, sounds very good.

Food for thought! I will definitely be going back to the websites above and seeing all the classes offered.


-Betsyanne

Learn more:
What is a Community College?
West Kentucky Community College (Paducah) (Ed2Go)
Bowling Green Community College
Bowling Green Technical College (Bowling Green, KY)
Apply for FAFSA money for community college
Find a local community college - by state
Different kinds of writing courses - how to find free ones

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Y Not/Stuff Economics - a new scholarship information source

More Scholarship Link Information

Y Not/Stuff Economics uses the new Terapad free web page system. It is a new source for scholarship link information.

I found this site today. It is an eclectic site, featuring "Economics, Baseball, Computers, and Other Stuff". I have never run across it before. On the surface, it didn't seem like it had a lot of information. Then I clicked on some category sections at the left hand side. Bingo!

The site had some scholarships just for African-Americans. Here is the link:
African-American Scholarships

There are also scholarships listed for Veterans, New Yorkers, Minorities, Nurses, and more. Check this out - I am sure to go back here for more information too.

Friday, March 26, 2010

What do I REALLY want to do?















You've all probably heard the saying - it's not a mistake when you learn from it.
Or how about this one: be yourself - do what YOU want to do.

I have been wondering. What do I really WANT to do with the rest of my life? And is going back to school part of my plan?

These are really good questions, I think. People who get scholarships to college or trade school can sometimes change their minds about what they want to do with their education later. It's okay to do this - especially since happiness day to day can mean so much in a career.

But how do you really know what you want? Some lucky people just automatically know what they want to do, and have known since childhood. Others just don't. I was one that didn't know. I knew what I was GOOD at, but sometimes following what you are just GOOD at doesn't work out.

And I know personally that sometimes you can want to do more than one thing. For instance, I enjoy writing, AND art, plus I like to work with websites. And I always wanted to be a teacher and see what it was like. I took teaching and also English and art. Later, I taught in a Kentucky high school. I was faced with students that were way below class level in reading, and some with undiagnosed disabilities of many kinds. I didn't have much help, and it was really hard for a first-time teacher like me.

So now do I want to be a Special Ed teacher instead? I don't think so. I have already seen what that could be like. And now I have a choice - do I go for my Master's and have even more student loan payments, then find out I don't like it?

This can be a quandry for others, too, I just know it.

So what to do? I guess researching what you like to do could help me and others.

Here are some interesting sites that can help you (and me!) decide.

Talk it up - work it out - your future
The Edison Mental Fitness test - would you have made his team?
Career test (free) from Fun Education (watch out for ads)
Free Career Tests Everyone Should Take - from the Accredited Online Colleges site
More free career tests (includes Canada, and the UK)
The Dalai Lama's list of important things to do









-Betsyanne
My business pages
My Squidoo lenses

Monday, March 22, 2010

Why Fastweb is a great site - by starREVIEWS

I have recommended FastWeb as a scholarship search site for years.

There is a great review by starREVIEWS 2010 about the site. Here is the link:
http://www.starreviews.com/fastweb.aspx

Some of the things that starREVIEWS like about FastWeb are:
1. You can opt out of advertising by clicking on a link while you are signing up,
2. Even though advertising appears on the site, it still only takes about 15 minutes to sign up.
3. The site is free to use
4. You get a personalized profile and a place to store it when you come back to use it again, and
5. Support on the site was fast (email, one day, and phone just 2 minutes.)

Although ideally it would be great if starREVIEWS only reviewed scholarships, (it looks a bit commercial) I was glad to find this review today.

Find out more:
Go to the FastWeb site
The starREVIEWS site
starREVIEWS reviews four other scholarship sites too

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Berea College - better than a scholarship!

Berea College - Uniqueness with a Difference















Have you heard about Berea College? It's a unique place where promising low-income students can work to attend. No tuition is charged. It is located in Kentucky's Bluegrass region, south of Lexington, Kentucky.

Their website: http://www.berea.edu/

Learn more about what Berea College is all about:
See a YouTube video about Berea College

Grow your potential, not your debt:
http://www.berea.edu/prospectivestudents/financialaid/

Find out more:
Berea on Facebook
A New York Times article:
With no Frills or Tuition, a College draws Notice

Photo by kfjmiller@morguefile.com, karen@kfjmiller.co.uk,
Page URL:

Friday, March 5, 2010

Five Twitter Postings for March 5th








FIVE TWITTER POSTINGS
for March 5th, 2010

Twitter is a lot of fun, and can help you find information you need, too.

Here are some recent Twitter postings I have found that I liked. I have re-tweeted them (thus the RT before the quotation). I twit at @ScholarsGrants about scholarships and grants, motivation, quotations, college, and more.

As those of you know who are already on Twitter, the site is a great place to find neat sayings, websites, and blogs. It is also a great place to meet people who have your same hobbies, jobs, thoughts, etc.

I hope you enjoy these twitters.

RT @SirkRialb Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value -Albert Einstein

RT @2cor9 RT @dahara: More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin. ~ Unknown

When a mouse laughs at the cat, there is always a hole nearby - Nigerian Proverb @debbie_wood

RT @Noetical “The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.”~Jules Renard #QUOTE #CatQuotes  

I just read part of this Squidoo lens of the Day: lovely! The Daffodil Principle: http://www.squidoo.com/daffodil 

To subscribe to my Tweets on Twitter as ScholarsGrants, just go to Twitter.com, sign up, and then follow @ScholarsGrants. See you on Twitter!

-Betsyanne

You can also follow me on Twitter at @betsyanne and @nontrads. See you there!
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