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Scholarships for Women: Easy Tips for Free Money to Educate Yourself

Friday, February 25th, 2011

Most of the times when women think of advancing in career and increase their horizon of academic knowledge, they are stressed about the money to fund their education. Even if they are financially sound, women at times find it difficult to risk the money they put in for increasing their future prospects in life. A point of uncertainty always haunt women for investing in education and if she intends to educate herself after marriage or any such commitment, then the unknown future phobia is at its peak. In such situations, women tend to think by heart and they let go their dreams of further education and compromise with the career.

Think of a situation that somebody else is sponsoring your education? How fascinating is that! Though women have uncertainty about their future, women will end up spending nothing and the whole education would be funded by other people. For getting easy and free money for your education, consider following tips:

1) Express yourself: Many a times, women find it difficult to express and elaborate the achievements they possess. However, as a decision maker for scholarships, one will look at the information present in front of him. Since the number of applications received usually are high, it is better to elaborate all your achievements and success. This would enable the decision maker to take an informed decision.

2) Write the application yourself: Most of the times, women take help from either professional consultants or friends to fill up the application. They seek help for even writing the essays relating to their life. But, please always remember that no one except you can be more passionate and excited about your accomplishments. Therefore, the personal touch and passion that you can bring to the essays, no one can effectively do that.

3) Be honest: This is one of the most critical aspect of writing an application. It is utmost important to exhibit your integrity and be honest about all the information you are providing. The decision maker, at first may not be able to find out that you have lied about any aspect, however, you may be caught in an embarrassing situation during the personal interview stage of scholarship process.

These may be very common tips and you may not find it any different from what you think. However, it is very important to keep reminding us about these few basic aspects, as they can impress or adversely affect the decision maker for women scholarship application.

SBA Special Programs for Women Owned Businesses – Government Contracts, Grants, Loans, Money

Saturday, February 12th, 2011

What a great time to be a woman owned business right now. There are government give-aways, grants, special loan programs, and now easy to get set-aside lucrative government contracts to have. All you have to do is fill out the form and you are in. And it’s all paid for by the taxpayer, so you get free money, easy loans, and lucrative government SBA contracts ready to go. Guaranteed success all paid by the government.

There was an interesting article not too long ago in Government Executive Magazine (first posted to their website) titled “After Delays, Women’s Small Business Contracting Program Debuts” by Robert Brodsky on February 4, 2011. Finally it stated;

“Qualifying companies now can begin registering to participate in the program, which allows contracting officers for the first time to set aside awards for women-owned small businesses, through a new the SBA webpage. The program focuses on 83 industries in which the Obama administration determined women are underrepresented in the federal contracting marketplace.”

Additionally it was noted that those women small companies which fit the criteria would be entitled to contracts under $5 million which were “set-aside” for the manufacturing sector, “as long as they submit a ‘Fair and Reasonable Price’ and at least two or more women-owned small businesses submit offers.”

Now then, this burns me up and I am livid at the insanity of this. Quotas like this never work, and if women businesses are under-represented maybe there aren’t enough of them in the market place, and if not why not? Government cannot correct “what they believe to be” a mistake in the market place by mandating such things. Further this is not fair to male owned businesses that probably need those contracts to stay in business after a recession which for the most part was caused by bad policy, you know like this one.

The United States government should close the SBA completely, it’s nothing more now than a “politically correct” pansy ultra-left agency whose direction is being steered by politicians with communist and socialist mindsets in my OPINION (which is based on 30-years of carefully following everything the SBA does). How can the government on one hand claim it wants fairness to all small businesses with no favoritism or discrimination, and then say; “Only Women Businesses” can bid on these juicy contracts we’ve set aside?

It’s completely laughable, and in my view pathetic hypocrisy? These folks are completely out of control, worse, the bureaucracy exists on my tax dollars. As a male owned small business how is it that their tax dollars are going to fund a barrier to doing business with the government so their competition can waltz in and snag the big fish? I’d seriously like to know who on Earth thought of this ridiculous program. Can’t anyone see how silly this is, its utter nonsense. And this is why we have a government, to come up with crap like this, it’s a joke. (my opinion – tough if you don’t like it or can’t handle the truth).


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