FEMA AFG Grant
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) FEMA AFG grant open application period is presently underway. The projected total award amount for the year 2010 is $380 million. These funds are available to any fire department and non-affiliated emergency response agencies in America. The process of beginning to fill a department’s needs start with identifying those [...]
How to Apply for Free Grants
Knowing where and how to apply for free grants is the first step into receiving a much needed revenue source. For fire departments and emergency medical technicians, the largest resource is the US government. Since 9/11, the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was entrusted with the mission to safeguard the well being [...]
A 2010 Project Development for Fire Departments
The 2010 Department of Homeland Security offers the Assistance to Firefighters Grants through FEMA and the needs of a project to be covered by your grant proposal can be addressed and funded by this AFG program. Each department can include a number of related activities for your covered area. There are 3 things that must [...]
A Successful AFG Fire Grants Story
Every year there are thousands of applications for assistance from the government through the Assistance for Firefighters Grant or AFG for free federal grant money. This report was issued on the website www.BroughtonVFD.org. This is one of the successful applications dated November 7, 2003. The Broughton Volunteer Fire Department from South Park, Pennsylvania was the [...]
Who Receives the Funding from the AFG Program
Applicants for the AFG Fire Grants are categorized in four different areas by FEMA for statistical purposes. The largest being all volunteer fire departments followed by the combination volunteer/paid firefighters, all paid/career firefighters and last paid on-call firefighters. 51.1% of all homeland security grant money allocated through the AFG is for the volunteer departments. The [...]
The AFG Application Process is Highly Competitive
The Assistance to Firefighters Grants or AFG is a source of funds allocated by congress to help maintain existing firefighting facilities and their vehicles. It is also an additional source of free grant money to provide new vehicles and equipment for the local firehouses across the United States and its territories. The majority of requests [...]
FEMA AFG Fire Grants will Train Applicants on How to Write a Grant Proposal
There are many good training aids on the official AFG grants website that you may reach from the links provided below. Some of the things that you will want to learn about is how to write a good grant proposal. You should follow the instructions very closely and attend one of the traveling workshops in [...]
DHS and FEMA have an Online Tutorial to Learn More about the AFG Fire Grants
The Assistance to Firefighters Grants (AFG) Fire Grants is a program that you will want to study properly before your grants writer submits the actual grant request. Now the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have an online tutorial where you may do some advance preparation. Along with the [...]
The AFG Fire Grants Applications Workshops Are Traveling Now
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through FEMA has made the Assistance to Firefighters Grants program available. It is up to your fire department to apply for the grant money. This website at www.AFGgrants.com is privately operated to help make this AFG Grants program to become better known to all of the Fire Departments in [...]
We Describe More About the Homeland Security Grants Known as the AFG Fire Grants
Firefighters deserve the best equipment that is available to assist them in their hardest of hard jobs, and to keep them safe and healthy. You know it, we know it and the Federal Government knows it. The Homeland Security Grants / AFG Fire Grants program was started in 2001 under direction of the Department of [...]
