People are led to believe that government grants are simply free money. That the government hands you to spend however you see fit, which is not exactly the case.

Yes, there are government grants that are easy to find. Yes, there are government grants that you can get fairly easily. Yes, there are grants that you don’t have to fulfill numerous obligations to fulfill the grant requirements.

But, there are many more grants available out there that take a little research and a lot of work to apply for and meet all the requirements. Most of the grants available have very strict requirements for what you can do with the money you receive from a grant and by accepting the grant you are agreeing to do whatever you said you would do with the money in your application.

You may not only, have to prove that you used the money for what you said that you would but in some cases you may also have to prove that you did it well and didn’t waste the money.