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Hi I would like to take the course to get my real estate license and the class is close to 500 dollars. I'm going through s divorce and my husband left me with negative 16 bucks in the bank. I just got a new job but it won't be possible to use that money to take my exam cause I have three kids plus bills. Any advice on how to get a grant for the real estate exam? I just really want to get myself into a position that I will be financially ok for the future and for my kids. Thanks.
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It sounds like a very challenging time in your life. Finding funding for training to move beyond this difficult time is an important step. The Community Toolbox is designed to provide training on grant writing that will help support community efforts. The Toolbox is not focused on individual funding. You might try finding resources by using different groupings of search terms to see if you can locate possible funding sources that will meet your needs. When I teach grant writing, one of the assignments my students do is to learn to identify funding sources by "testing" different types of terms. They find that they need to try different terms and different groupings of terms before they get "hits" that help them locate possible funders. The student might be interested in funding for programs for teenagers but they might not get any hits when they put "teenagers" into the google search. When they change to "adolescents" they might get many more hits. So, they find that it takes some time and flexibility to sort through what you find when you do the online searches. 

Question Date: Mon, 11/23/2015