First Regional Library Serving DeSoto, Lafayette, Panola, Tate, and Tunica Counties in Northwest Mississippi
Quick Reference — Education, Financial Aid, Grants, Scholarships, Jobs and Careers
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Education & Scholarships

• CAPP - A part of The Education Services Foundation which is a public/private partnership dedicated to maximizing access to higher education for students. This website was created to provide students with a wide range of services to assist them in their quest to go to college.
• CollegeNet - A state-by-state directory of colleges and universities
• Federal Student Aid
• FinAid - A source of information on all types of student financial aid.
• Praxis II Test Review
• Spark Notes

Grants

• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance - Online version of the complete guide to federal grants & loans.
• FinAid - A source of information on all types of student financial aid.
• Foundation Center - Not necessary to register or subscribe to access information on grant writing and establishing a foundation.
• GiveSpot - Evaluates charities and provides tools to assist grant writers.
• Grants.gov allows organizations to search postings of grant opportunities from all federal agencies. 
• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance is a good place to look for federal assistance, which can be in the form of grants, loans, consultants, etc. 
• Use GovSpot to link to GrantsNet, CFDA (see above), and SchoolGrants. 
• Grants Etc. is a website designed and maintained by Professor Armand Lauffer and hosted by the University of Michigan School of Social Work. Provides links to funding sources. 
• Grants for Nonprofits is a webpage provided by the Michigan State University Library. It is a collection of funding sources, arranged by subject. 
• GrantsNet is a tool for finding information about the grants offered by the Department of Health & Human Services and selected other Federal grant programs. 
• GrantsWeb is a huge collection of links to grant information, much of it federal, geared primarily to institutions. 
  
• Mississippi State University Grant Writing Guide
• TGCI, the Grantsmanship Center, offers links to grants including international funders. Search by geographic region.
• GrantProposal.com “a site devoted to providing free resources for both advanced grant writing consultants and inexperienced nonprofit staff.” Includes great tips and advice.
• The Foundation Center
  is a premier site for foundation information. To find out information about specific grant makers (try the Foundation Finder feature) or grant making trends see their Grantmaker Info. page. Includes links to home pages of more than 1,500 grant makers.

Jobs and Careers

• Career OneStop - Geared to job seekers, businesses, and students. Also links to hurricane recovery related jobs.
• Class A Drivers - Class A truck driving jobs
• Construction Work - Construction job bank
• Job Star - Public library sponsored site of job search information.
• Memphis Help Wanted - Memphis area jobs. Registration required to post resume, but not to search the site.
• Mississippi State Personnel Board - Active Recruitment Lists has current openings that can be accessed by county or by salary.
• Monster.com - More than 400,000 job opportunities makes this the largest online jobs database on the Web. You can search by company name, location, discipline, industry, job title, or combinations of these. The employer overview gives some background information into the company selected, the products and services, and employee benefits. They also have a large database of information for the job seeker and the employer. The Online Career Center is now a part of this huge site.
• Occupational Outlook Handbook
• Resumes Start Here is a site of The Methuselah Group:  A job hunting and recruitment firm based in Hong Kong.
• Microsoft Word Resume templates.
• Transisiton Assistance Online Assistance for people seeking jobs after leaving the military.
• USA Jobs - Official federal employment job bank.
• Mississippi Jobs from JuJu
  Indeed.com Search job sites, newspapers, associations and company career pages.
• Mississippi Department of Empoyment Security

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