Now I take my time and dictate nothing, but leave the best up to fate and ask for regular guidance while I lead the way. I know very little of scholarly scholastic and spiritual matters, but I sure know how to meditate a little each day, till it’s up to an hour and a half. I trust in putting your best foot backwards and chance it by storm. My reasons: I have strong research skills and applied for a job each week for three and a half years and only got two interviews. I wrote challenging and interesting letters for my employers but none took the bite. Only, after the intervention of another head hunter did I locate a research job—researching grants and writing them. I lasted six months as the agency went through a year and a half search for a CEO, lost $240,000 in funding, most from United Way and still, with all my expertise, I left. I was underutilized.
I went to another nonprofit where the million dollar budget holds me as does the research work of investigating grants and writing them up. Particularly, I like writing up letters of inquiry, as you have to be precise as possible; to state in approximately one page, the mission, the design, the outcomes and the budget of the project. That’s a challenge. It took me two months to do the first one adequately. I didn’t interview the staff, the wrote it with me; I will interview the Director in a month and ask all the questions I need for writing up an adequate description of the program and what it is all about. The Director has been coaching her clientele for up to twenty years, so the experience and expertise is there, I just have to translate it into words. That’s what is program development, trusting the staff to know their work. I think grant writing is program development.
What do you rely on for guidance?
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