The Upward Bound Grant

the Upward Bound grant is out, and Phyllis is working hard at putting it together. We have less than a month to do so. It’s a little unnerving – it is each time we do it. It’s a lot of work, and four/five years of continued programming count on it. It’s scary.

To make it worse, the Department of Education is setting us all up for failure. Not only is it now an electronic submission (which means things can be reformatted at the other end, messing up the number of pages), but they have complicated it even further. The grant itself can be only 50 pages long. That’s half as long as it could be last time. So, we have to get the same information across is half the space. Now here is the kicker: the directions on how to write the grant: 102 pages long.

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I’m sorry, but it seems to me that if the DIRECTIONS are that long, it’s going to be very, very difficult to get the grant into half the space.

Sorry, went off on that a bit.