"🔥 Exclusive Secrets Revealed: Unlocking Grants for Black Men and Businesses! 💼💰"

have these men had businesses so all I'm saying  is if the information is out there get it even if it doesn't have your name on it even if it  doesn't say black man or a white man right the information is out there it's up to you to get it  no nobody nobody is excluding you and saying you can't be a part of it's not about exclusion I'm  not I'm talking about inclusion I'm not telling exclusion all I'm saying is that Brothers my  thing is just that I like to see more African I like to be able to

turn on my YouTube channel  sometimes and see more African-American Brothers doing more I am that's why I got this podcast and  I talk to people like you and I bring on other people to come on and we talk about this this  this um thing itself and part of that is that I wish more brothers would do more like you  and more other women who are on here because trust me I have a lot of you come all the time I  tell them the same thing like hey you guys doing an excellent job at it I really wish we wou

ld do  more of the same thing tell them to come to the thank you black owned business and blacklight  non-profit workshops I have two tomorrow one is that new one is at seven and I have them every  month and it's for black it's not that when you say that and I don't want you to take it as  wrong it ain't that I'm speaking for anybody I'm saying that people like yourself if you did  all mail when they say I'm doing one for all African-American males just like you say I'm gonna  do one for all Afr

ican-American women that's all I'm saying that's it because I don't do those  and I don't have people coming to me with tons of that saying that I just said that if that  opportunity exists I believe African-American males would probably come just like you make  it available to African-American females and if it takes a brother to do it then maybe a  brother should do it I think in the grant world you have so many grants now and so many  opportunities that are geared towards for African-American

women women on businesses  and my point my point yeah there's none for African-American male and there's a and there's  and I'm just saying there's a reason for that American women see more than would like to  see African-American males and it's always been that way because think about it you  say to yourself there is Grants and you've been in this for years they are specifically  available for African-American women that's been that's been since George Floyd that's  no this is before George it

's been before George Floyd too it was before George Floyd  there's been some there's been more available it's been zero for men though right this is  my area that I've been in for 15 years and I can assure you that in the last three or  four years since George Floyd that's where you've seen an influence influx but before  then it still exists okay now has it ever in your experience have you ever seen any  specifically for just African-American male well I'd have to remove the ruling about that 

but and it probably was something that was like my father My Brother's Keeper or something like  that but was there any specific wedge shut up I'm glad she brought that up because Obama's group  right My Brother's Keeper and the I believe it's called the group of or Male Achievement  or the organization for Male Achievement those two organizations now that you bring it  up are exclusively for black boys and black men exclusively um like if you are going because I  know because I applied and got

a grant for for an organization I was working with that was all  about black boys so those two organizations are exclusively for black men and black boys those  organizations those are not grants well they give grants they give grants but that's the  organization that was here to give grants we talking just grants and period in the grant world  you know I don't think it exists and it and there are some yeah you'd have to you'd have to research  there are some and the reason I know there are som

e is that part of the work I I've been with an  organization called at the well conferences Inc or it's been what maybe 13 years I've been with  them so every year right we held a Leadership Academy for two weeks on the campus of Princeton  University it was always Geared for black girls in high school and then we started one um for  those in the ninth grade like the last three years we created a similar program for black boys  so these were black boys in high school or in the ninth grade they w

ould literally come and spend  two weeks on the campus of Princeton University it was all about leadership development so one of my  jobs and working it was called from the fire one of my jobs was to find grants for organizations  that give to this program where you are serving bring like a black male population so a lot of it  again it goes back to the research Now is it going to say this is a grant for black boys not always  right but if they are pooling their money and providing resources for

a minority population and  your organization happens to be geared for black boys or black men then you qualify so if you're  looking for grants that say this is exclusively for black men or black boys no you're not going  to see that but that doesn't mean that there isn't grant money for you it's about how you do the  research so if you find foundations and there are thousands of them out there that have money  set aside for serving a minority population you pursue those organizations yes yours

is going  to be geared towards a black male population and that's okay that means that you're going to  qualify so I think it's in how you research it if you're looking for all these grants that spell  out okay this is exclusively for black men or Blackboard no that's that's rare unless you go to  Someone Like My Brother's Keeper or yeah blackmail achievement but it doesn't mean that it's not  there you just have to dig a little bit deeper no and I agree with you and and I'm I'm totally with  y

ou on that I believe that it does exist and it's just hard to find and again my thing was never  about anything anybody was doing wrong I just want us to do more on our on our on our own that you  know our brothers and I did another thing I called it brother because we talking I try to bring  Brothers together and we did a big event Ronnie did panel discussions and we talked about ways  that we can continue to try to bring our brothers closer and closer to try to deal with some of that  and agai

n like I tell you you're using the podcast has been my biggest thing of it is doing that and  just you know there are there are ways I mean you have um the initiative I think it's called the  initiative of fatherhood that's a nationwide organization but that's just for fatherhood you  see what I mean and and it's a lot of those you know and that's that's what I'm saying I let's  see if we're good we got what I needed so I I I'm gonna cut a lot of that out we're just talking  about I just wanted

that part I only really wanted to go back to your school when you're telling  people to get that Grant all that other stuff was just me and you talking um but there there's  a a lot of those that be specific like that it'll be like um the Fatherhood Initiative Program like  we have here in Cuyahoga County but if you're not a father you don't you know it doesn't meet any of  your criteria so it's that kind of thing so it's usually when it comes down to African-American  males is so specific drive

n you have it fits in you in a certain box that it just doesn't that's  why I was really surprised by when I heard you say that you know for-profit organizations could  get grants and you know that's Millions but again A lot of it was caused by covid-19 yeah and then  the George Floyd and that's that's why I'm really focusing on the George Floyd incident because  after he was murdered specifically foundations and large corporations said we are going to create  grant funding that's geared towards

Dei and minority organization so I mean the opportunity  is now there's more money out here now for black organizations than there has ever been because  of what happened to George Floyd typically how long it takes before you can when you do a grant  if somebody come in there um get your research I know it can vary but yeah that's not a good answer  because it will vary it just it just depends but so some organizations have what's called rolling  applications right that means you can apply year

-round people like Walmart um but then you  have organizations that they have open periods but you can apply but they're not going to make that  decision to their Board Mates and typically boards meet what four or five times a year so you have to  wait until the board meets so that's typically I would say three months is about average three  months unless you need emergency money that's totally different like literally if you're saying  I have a non-profit we're about to shut the doors because w

e need five thousand dollars to pay  because the pipes burst right then you can go to certain foundations people don't know that  the Cleveland Foundation is the largest Community Foundation in the country the largest you can  go to foundations like the Cleveland Foundation they have discretionary funding organize the  foundations like St Luke's they have what's called discretionary funding so that means you don't  go through the normal Loops right you'd have to jump through the normal Loops you

need money right  away the process is faster the program directory usually has a signature um responsibility where  literally they can they can create the check and give the check to you in a week or two weeks or  three weeks whereas if you have to sit and wait for the board to decide that can be two to three  months so there are some organizations excuse me here in Cleveland where you can get discretionary  funding where the person that you're talking to instead of that person having to take a

ll the  information back and go before the board can write you a check so Linda that's usually up to about  fifteen thousand dollars Linden so you you have oh I you know what that's what I wanted to talk  about I didn't know if you wanted to talk about that no I just no not what I make but how you  work with grant writers because there is so much misinformation out there because people think  that you can pay grant writers a percentage of the Grand and it's actually that's actually illegal  and

unethical in Most states really yes so you do not pay a grant writer a percentage of the grant  first of all the grant is not guaranteed like most grants do not get approved so to say that you're  going to pay a grant right or percentage of the fund what if you're going to get the fund wow and  all that work has been done so grad writing is a skill and we need to be paid for our skill correct  so professional grant writers and that those are the only ones I deal with because if anybody  can say

they write grants I'm a professional grant writer so I adhere to the coding ethics of  the grant professional association and many other Grant associations it means that we do not get  paid on commission we do not get paid a percentage if you get the grant if you get paid up front I  get paid a percentage of them of the fee when I sign the contract and then I get the remaining  fee when I submit the grant everything is paid to me before that Grant is submitted we just  why most most most organiz

ations and companies they wouldn't work with me because I'm way way  outside of their their budget right and they're accustomed to hearing and correctly oh I can hire  her and give her percentage of the grant funding now that's literally in some states it's actually  illegal for you to do that because when you secure grant funding grant funding cannot be paid  for any expenses before you get the grant exactly before you get the grant right and grant writing  that's before you got the grant so li

terally in some states that's illegal you can't yeah you  can't even pay the grand writer out of the grant proceeds right nor are you supposed to and it's so  interesting because uh there's a I was working on um an application yesterday and the foundations  are getting smarter to this so literally there was a question on the Grant application that said  do you have do you have a grand writer and if you have a grant writer how is that person being  paid right so they want to make sure that you're

not going to use a dime of our money to pay that  Grant Rider and that if you are paying that grant writer you're paying that grand writer out of  your administrative budget it's not coming from the grant because that is illegal in a lot of  States if so you're lying somewhere because if you didn't put in there that you was paying them  if you fudging the numbers to try to pay them so somewhere another you're lying right and so a  lot of organizations organizations that hire me my fee is paid o

ut of their administrative budget  right like they have an admin budget they have a a contractor's budget and the grant writer  is just a part of the regular budget right um but too many people think that you can pay  a grant writer out of the proceeds right or a percentage of the grant if it gets funded so  for me and most professional grant writers that he literally eliminates the majority of the  population wow because they don't want to do it or they don't have the funds and we get paid you

know  different ranges based on our skill level right somebody like me we can get paid anywhere between  100 to 200 per hour 20 grants so it just depends on whether it's a stipend like a monthly stipend  or if you're asking me to write one particular Grant so one particular Grant usually starts  at it maybe four or five thousand dollars for one Grant if you're hiring me on a monthly basis  that's maybe like seven or eight thousand dollars a month that you're paying me to write a number  of so th

at's a particular organization right that can afford to hire somebody like me but I'm very  skilled there's many many other grant writers who charge a lot less than than I do but my focus  again has really been on the course because I can just help so many more people and you're  doing well with your course and I'm doing very well with the course that's what's happening  that's what I'm trying to move [Music] this is