A mother handles all the chores of a house-hold and considers her family to be her first priority
. She hardly thinks about herself. For a mother the happiness of her family is her happiness. She is lost in her family so much that she hardly realizes that she has her dreams too which are still unfulfilled. A mother can never think about education with the kind of financial strain she is passing through. It is for this reason that scholarships and grants for mothers have been started so as to make the mothers self-sufficient.
Federal government under Government's administration and other benevolent agencies and organizations are showing their dedication towards educating the mothers. Government understands the real cause of underemployment and unemployment amongst the mothers due to their inadequate qualifications. That is the reason, of the increase in the number of federal grants and state grants. The Pell grants have also improved this year and a total of $17 billion has been set aside for federal grants. There are different kinds of federal grants available to the mothers like the FSEOG, ACG, National SMART grant, TEACH grant and so on.
The most common scholarships and grants available to mothers from charitable organizations and other services have been mentioned below in brief:
1) Governments 'Moms return to school' program which is an initiation started by the Government seeing the state of education amongst the mothers which is proving to be a major obstacle in the development of the Nation.
2) American Opportunity Tax Credit Program agrees to provide the $4000 of initial fees for any higher education as free to all the U.S citizens.
3) Raise the Nation is a well-known women's organization striving hard for the betterment of the mothers by providing the required financial care and services for them to pursue their education.
4) CLIMB Wyoming believes in providing effective coaching to mothers so that they will be eligible for higher pays ad better jobs.
5) Soroptimist Women's Opportunity Awards are given out every year to three women who are in dire need of financial care for their education. The award is for $10,000.
6) The Jeanette Rankin Foundation Scholarship Program is a program started by the organization in 1978 and has provided more than 500 scholarships to mothers who are over 35 years.
7) Ford Opportunity Program is a great scholarship program which provides grants to 52 mothers attending Oregon College.
8) Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship is exclusively for single mothers and who are also staying at Arkansas.
9) Sunshine Lady Foundation Scholarship Program believes in providing financial care to the women who were victims of domestic abuse.
Mothers no longer require restraining their desires and dreams for education. It is a right of every individual to procure knowledge and scholarships and grants for mothers will turn this into reality by bestowing better lives and a happy future to the mothers.