Prompt: Consider the Overview of the Grant Seeking Process and the writing landscape of grants and proposals in general.  Identify two interesting things your picked up from reading the chapter and be ready to share in with the class next time? (150-200 words).

Response: As I should have guessed from my time in professional and technical writing, there were a lot more steps and processes to the grant seeking process than I had initially thought. While the whole chapter was informative, there were a few things that I found interesting. First, I found that surprising was just how many people are truly involved in the grant process. Applying for grants clearly takes a lot of time and effort on the part of those who seek them, but I never thought that organizations needed specific roles for each person. I understand having positions for lead program staff and a financial advisor, but I wasn’t aware that there were actual grant-writing consultants that organizations could hire. Another interesting topic that I found was the categories of support that grants fall into. To be honest, I always felt that grants could be used for any purpose if awarded to an organization, but it seems silly to admit it. It was eye-opening to learn that there are many categories of support that include operating, capacity building, restricted program income. I also feel that the majority of the population don’t realize how hard it can be to receive grants and how dedicated an organization has to be in seeking them.