What are Grants
Use of Grants
Shortcomings of Grants
Criteria of Grants
100

This is what the receiver of the grant is called.

Who is the grantee?

100

This state grant aids in-state Georgia students for their tuition payments of public universities.

What is the Hope grant?

100

These two statistics are included in most calculations of grant allocation.

What are population and poverty rates?

100

This criteria is highly rated for grants due to the direct cooperation between the federal government with state and local governments.

What is legitimacy?

200

These are the two forms of grants.

What are cash and land grants?

200

This was the largest grant program to state and local governments in 1998, according to our graph.

What is Medicaid?

200

This term refers to the issue of low-income communities having less ability to apply for grants.

What is inequity?

200

Grants have a low ranking in this criteria because funds from most programs are distributed broadly rather than targeted to those who need it most.

What is equity?

300

Grants differ from these because they must be repaid to the lender, often with interest.

What are loans?

300

These are the categories of the example grants given in our slides.

What are education, housing, and sustainability?

300

Though this is often explicitly outlined in grant programs, it is considered "good advice, not often followed".

What is eligibility?

300

Due to there being no guarantee that grant funds are used for what they have been designated, this criteria ranks poorly.

What is efficiency?

400

This term refers to the restrictive encouragement of specific behaviors, something that grants defy.

What is coerciveness?

400

This federal grant aims to upskill Georgia’s workforce for post-pandemic economic recovery by funding apprenticeships in key industries.

What is the Apprenticeship for Economic Recovery Grant (AER Grant)?

400

In our example grant from TCSG, this is the maximum amount of money offered to apprenticeships, which may not be nearly enough for many students to cover even their basic costs.

What is $4,400?

400

"Goal displacement" is often discussed when referring to this grant criteria, lowering its ranking.

What is effectiveness?