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20 Startup Grants For Women
Here are 20 startup grants for women-owned businesses: Amber Grant: The Amber Grant is a $10,000 grant awarded to one woman-owned business each month. Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards: The Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards is a global startup competition that awards $100,000 in funding to seven women-owned businesses each year. Eileen Fisher Women-Owned Business Grant Program: The Eileen Fisher Women-Owned Business Grant Program awards a total of $200,000 in grant funding each year to up to 10 women-owned businesses. InnovateHER Challenge: The InnovateHER Challenge is an annual business competition that awards $40,000 in funding to three women-owned businesses. National Association for the Self-Employed Growth Grants: The National Association for the Self-Employed…
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What is a Credit Score
Treat Your Credit Score Like A Plant That You Constantly Take Care Of And It Will Pay Dividends When You Need It The Most! A credit score is a number that is assigned to every US citizen and resident that represents their ability to manage loans they have and pay their bills on time. This score is based on different algorithms that factor in how much credit you have open, what type of credit it is, your credit line and your ability to manage and pay on time. The scores for the most popular credit rating systems currently range from 300-850 but many credit unions and institutions use their own…
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Boost Your Self-Belief with Tips from the World’s Most Successful People
How do you get to the top? When you look at the world’s most successful people, what do you see? Was Oprah just lucky? How about Bill Gates or Elon Musk? Believe it or not, regardless of whether you’re looking at a celebrity, sports star, or tech billionaire, you’re going to see one thing in common: Every last success story is rooted first in a strong self-belief. Your belief about yourself is what fuels you. It has the ability to set you apart from the rest of the world. When you feel like a success inside, this is where you become a success on the outside. More than anything else,…
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Six Ways to Keep Adversity from Keeping You Down
Sometimes life seems to go downhill fast. Whether you’re naturally an optimist or a pessimist, your world can change for the worse in ways you can’t ignore. You may lose your job, lose your friend or family, have a health scare, be bullied or disliked, or the goal you’re aiming for may disappear before you can reach it. Or there may simply never be enough money to keep you and your family safe and happy. Adversity can drain your will. That makes it harder and harder to change what you can change, accept what you can’t change, and to know the difference between the two. Here are six ways to…