Illinois Grants

Below is a listing of some of the grants that are available in Illinois.

Grants

1) Community Services Block Grant Program (CSBG)
The CSBG grant program was created to provide a range of services which will help low-income people attain knowledge, skills, and the motivation necessary to achieve self-sufficiency. The grant program also may provide low-income people immediate life necessities such as food, help with bills, shelter, medicine, etc. if needed.

2) Emergency Shelter Grant Program (ESGP)
The grant program is intended to restrict the increase of homelessness through the funding of preventive activities and programs, among other reasons for this grant program.

3) Monetary Assistance Program awards, (MAP) grants
This education grant program contributes almost $400 million annually to help thousands of Illinois students pay for school each and every year. The Illinois Student Assistance Commission disburses the grants to people in need of help. As just one example of the assistance provided by this education grant, Illinois State University relies on about $12 million in MAP grants every year, and the money helps about 2,000 students pay for college.