How You Feel Day 3 Of A Government Audit:

When Your City's "Ten Year Plan To End Homelessness" Fails To Include A Plan To Create More Affordable Housing Units:

So, exactly what are our homeless supposed to move into?

How You Feel After Being On The Phone For Five Hours, Rerouted Through Seven Different People, And Hung Up On Twice While Trying To Fix Your Client's Benefits:

When That Piece Of Legislation You Have Fought For For Years To Protect Your Clients Finally Passes:

What Basically Happens Whenever The Government Tries To "Update" Any Of Their Programs Or Systems:

 

So you took the program that only works on outdated versions of Internet Explorer and made it so that it works on absolutely nothing!

When A Grant Requires That You Fill Out A Two-Page Form Every Time You Give A Client A Bus Pass Worth $1.50:

"What is your client going to use this item for?" To ride the bus.
"Will you have confirmation and documentation that your client used this item for its intended purpose?" No, but if they come in tomorrow with a stomach ache and orange ink around their lips and a warrant, we'll know that they didn't use it for its intended purpose.

When You Have To Explain To A Politician In An E-mail Why Cutting Funding For Free Meals For Elementary School Kids Is A Terrible Idea:

I usually have to write political advocacy letters and e-mails four times, the first three drafts would probably get me on the FBI's watch list.

When You Find Out The Government Website You Need For All Of Your Clients' Benefits Applications Only Runs On Internet Explorer:

Why don't I just send the applications to you guys via homing pigeon, they will probably make it to you faster than I can even load the application.

When The Politician Who Voted Down Three Separate Bills To Increase Funding To Non-Profits Claims That One Of His Main Concerns Is Ending Homelessness:

What Often Happens When You Try To Pass A Client Off To A Federal Agency:

When, After Eight Months Of Advocacy, You Finally Get Your Chronically Homeless Client Housed:

It only took a mental health assessment, getting their name on housing lists, calling and bugging the the people on the housing boards relentlessly, keeping the client from vanishing due to the long wait-list time...

What Often Happens When You Try To "Bridge The Gap" Between Granting Cycles:

When You Hear About Grant Funding That Might Fit Your Program: