Keith Rosa & Gill Rodrigues
Florida

A pharmacist and college students who received $100,000 to start a coffee shop.

Jackie Smith
Maryland

had a dead end job in accounting and received over $30,000 for a degree in tax accounting.

Jamie Kelley
Florida

was unemployed and received free tuition, transportation, spending money, plus $700-a-month child care to train for a new job.

Arlene Hooks
Florida

With no collateral she received money to buy equipment for her business, plus a microloan.

Marshall T. Poe
Washington, D.C.

spent 15 years supporting himself with government money studying Russian studies.

Bart Woodward
Maryland

uses money from government contracts to work at home with the kids while his wife uses money to go to medical school.

Tori Stewardson
Virginia

a 42-year-old mother received over $15,000 plus books and transportation to go back to school to finish her degree.

Blanca Basson
Florida

a singer who received over $30,000 to start a home-based business doing musical jingles.

John Sennett
Virgina

a bar manager who received over $25,000 to go back to school and is now marketing director for a hot internet company.

Sheri Winchell
Maryland

lost her job in telemarketing and received government money to start a monogram store in a shopping mall.

James Freericks
Washington, D.C.

received over $500,000 in government money to work on his project and travel overseas.

Raymond Whitfield
Washington, D.C.

At 68 years old received over $20,000 from the government to get a Master's Degree in vocational rehabilitation.