How It Feels To Lose Your Job Due To A Loss In Grant Funding:

How You Feel Day 3 Of A Government Audit:

When You Find Out You Got The Grant You Applied For:

When You Accidentally Walk Into A Meeting Of Directors And Funders:

Why does no one tell me when the conference room has something going on in it!?

What All Case Managers Picture When Someone Says The Words "Fundraising Dinner:"

I have to wear a dress and make-up? I'm out!

When You Find Out That You Were Just Nominated As The Employee Representative To Go Speak At A Senior Donors Seminar... Over The Weekend:

When You Have To Give A Last-Minute Presentation To A Group Of Funders:

When There Is A Rumor Going Around That The Grant That Funds Half Of Your Agency's Jobs May Not Be Getting Renewed:

When, At The Last Possible Second, Your Grant Writer Finds Funding To Save Your Program:

My hero! *Swoon*

How People Working At Non-Profits Oftentimes See Those Working In The Private Sector:

What It Feels Like To Have Your Program's Budget Halved But Then Be Told You're Expected To Have The Same Outcomes As Last Year:

When You Realize That Your Database Numbers Don't Add Up, Meaning You Have To Look Through Over A Thousand Entries To Find The Error:

This is Hell.

When You Draw The Shortest Straw And End Up Being The Tour Guide For Donors For Your Non-Profit Agency For Four Hours:

...Because I didn't have work I was going to get done today or anything.

What It Feels Like When You're Asked To Write A Grant, But No One Has Any Details About The Grant:

So is this for housing, medical coverage, a worker cupcake fund... what!?

When A Politician Claims To "Love Children" But Then Votes To Cut Funding For Food Stamps And WIC Programs:

So you love kids... but you don't care if they eat or not. Hmm...

When The Newest Hired Staff To Take On A Brand New Grant Insists That He Or She Get All New Office Technology To Run Their New Program:

My computer is still running Windows Vista. Good luck getting that iPad buddy.

When You Find Out That The Major Grant You Were Awarded Requires You To Change Half Of Your Program So That You Remain In Compliance For The Money:

Your Reaction When, After Massive Funding Cuts, Your Executive Director Suggests That You Can Manage Two Other Programs Because, "They're Kind Of Like Your Current One, Right?"

When One Of Your Board Of Directors Members Wants Free Tickets For Their 20 Family Members To Your Annual Fundraiser Luncheon:

You do realize how a fundraiser works, right?

When People Keep Popping Into Your Office To Ask If The Grant Proposal You're Working On Is Done Yet:

It would have been done, but instead I've stopped and talked to ten people!