Welcome to the The Government Grant Portal serving Michigan Small Business Housing Grants, Michigan Women Business Grants, Student College Grants,Michigan SBA Minority Grants; We offer the essential guide for Grants in all 50 states. Ready to claim your share of free Government grants home grants small business grants federal grants or any other type of grants, then here's how you can tap into the billions of free Government tax dollars available for you. Uncle Sam is literally giving away over $1.5 Trillion dollars in free grants in 2007. The great thing is as long as you are over 18 years old and are an American citizen or legal resident with a lawful and legitimate use for these grants - you are eligible. For example, you can get Michigan Government grants for first time home buyers! Order The Grant Authority Book! These are Federal and State Government grants you can use for a variety of reasons. Government grants, by the way, have been funded by your Michigan tax dollars. You can use Government grants to get money for school, food and clothing, your church and many other reasons. There are over 24,000 Michigan State Government grants & National programs and 1500 Federal Government grant programs administered by 57 different Federal agencies. http://www.government-grant.biz/MI-government-grants.html http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:52:19 -1000 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:46:39 -1000 FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.1.8) unlicensed version http://www.feedforall.com http://government-grant.biz/rss-feed-grant.jpg http://www.government-grant.biz/MI-government-grants.html Welcome to the The Government Grant Portal serving Michigan Small Business Housing Grants 144 144 WASHINGTON, March 20 (UPI) -- The United States needs foreign-language speakers, and in particular it needs many more Arabic speakers. Despite massive investment and President George W. Bush's plan to spend a further $117 million next year, it does not seem to be getting them. What's wrong? America's National Research Council is now undertaking a comprehensive review of its language programs, funded by Title VI of the Higher Education Act. Are the massive grants provided to area studies programs for language instruction effective? How exactly has more than $100 million, allocated annually for area studies and foreign language instruction, been used? Have they been co-opted by universities to subsidize other aspects, such as theoretically-driven research, at the expense of language instruction? Hopefully, definitive answers will be available when the NRC finishes its review in 2007. In the meantime taxpayers must continue to ask whether Title VI money is being well spent and whether there are ways to ensure that it is. In the debate over reform of the Higher Education Act no issue has been more controversial than a proposed advisory board for areas studies and foreign language instruction. Predictable cries of censorship and manipulation were common. In the previous round of fighting over legislation revamping Title VI, some went so far as to misrepresent the modest suggestion of an advisory board effort to allow intelligence agencies to moderate U.S. students abroad. But a simple examination of programs funded by the Education department, and numerous government agencies, shows that advisory boards are in fact standard procedure for programs large and small. Examples of these include the committee for student financial assistance, which examines performance-based operations, modernization and technology, simplification of law and regulation, distance learning, and needs assessment; the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity, which advises the Secretary of Education on accreditation under Title IV of the Higher Education Act and holds public meetings twice a year in Washington, D.C.; and the Presidential Scholars program, which funds up to 141 of the nation's most promising high school graduates in the performing, creative and visual arts. Each body has an advisory commission. Mechanisms to promote accountability and exercise oversight are not restricted to advisory boards. The Education department even has an entire agency "to make certain that Federal funds produce high results and are well-spent." But international education and area studies appear uniquely exempt from oversight or expert advice. Even the links marked "performance" on the individual program web pages are inactive. Continual oversight and regular advisory process are the norm in other branches of the government that fund research and education programs. The National Institute of Child Health & Human Development has an advisory council. Its duties include advising, consulting with, and making recommendations to the NICHD Director on matters relating to the research and research support activities and functions of the Institute. The roles and responsibilities of the council members include secondary review of grant applications, with a focus on NICHD scientific program priorities and program balance. At the National Science Foundation the number of advisory groups is similarly dizzying and range from groups overseeing entire branches, such as the Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences and Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences, to individual units such as the Office of Polar Programs and the Office of International Science & Engineering. An inspector general also polices grants for fraud and waste and encourages efficiencies. http://www.government-grant.biz/MI-government-grants.html 384CC724-2774-4C7C-A078-C79C5057BC00 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:41:21 -1000