[nabs-l] Disappointed

[Albert Yoo]

What do you have to do to get this grant? I don't think the Virginia student division is very active. I must have missed this email a few months back. I would have liked to have helped out. Is it too late now Joe? Albert 
 
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> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:58:17 -0400
> Subject: [nabs-l] Disappointed
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> If someone offered your student division $2,000 to carry out a project
> between September and November, would you take it? The amount is certainly
> not a fortune, but it's $2,000 more than you have now. It would give you an
> opportunity to elevate your outreach among the general public, recruit new
> members and generally put your name out there for people to understand you
> are serious about the business of changing what it means to be blind. Are
> you interested?
> 
> I shared information of this grant my office was offering to youth almost
> two months ago. I just checked the list of last-minute applicants, and
> unless I am mistaken, and I hope I am, no one took me up on that post. I
> genuinely do not understand the apathy among my fellow students. The
> application was relatively simple. I offered to answer any questions people
> had of the application. I mean, I work for the grant maker. I should hope
> I know what we are looking for, and had you taken the time to talk to me, I
> could have told you that your proposal could have centered around Meet the
> Blind Month in October, that the Braille coin could have made for an
> excellent literacy campaign or explored any number of different ways you
> could have developed a compelling case for why your division deserved the
> money over another organization.
> 
> So, there we are. Trying and failing leaves room for improvement. Not
> trying at all? ... I don't get it.
> 
> Joe Orozco
> 
> "A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the
> crowd."--Max Lucado
> 
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