Juicifer
12-22-11, 9:14am
Let me start by making an apology to you, I don't post a lot, I know I should but it's probably hard to imagine how incredible busy a non profit (like the one I work for) can be.
I am assistant executive director. I started as volunteer in this non profit and was then hired. I love grant proposal writing a lot, I love the research and I love it when cheques come in the mail, it gives me a good feeling to help. So, when other organizations asked me if I could help them too, I did.
In the city where we live there is a big United Way chapter, the United Way receives money from corporate giving and disburses that to its member agency. Our organization is a United Way member agency.
I helped the United Way with grant proposal writing as well.
I made the huge mistake to apply for a grant with a big funder for the United Way as well as our own organization (so two separate proposals with the same funder). I received an email from the United Way executive office last Monday that they had received a cheque for a big amount of money. I looked up the proposal I had written and I had requested a lot less, leaving me wondering what had happened.
This morning my executive director complained that we still hadn't heard from that funder and this eerie feeling crept on to me that United Way got our money. There is no way in hell United Way is going to give that money to us. I explained this to my executive just to come clean that I helped them as well and she had a hard time trying to cover her disappointment.
I can't continue my volunteer work for the United Way this way. Above all I feel like a big naive idiot that I hadn't thought about that mixing of interest before. Well now I know.
I am assistant executive director. I started as volunteer in this non profit and was then hired. I love grant proposal writing a lot, I love the research and I love it when cheques come in the mail, it gives me a good feeling to help. So, when other organizations asked me if I could help them too, I did.
In the city where we live there is a big United Way chapter, the United Way receives money from corporate giving and disburses that to its member agency. Our organization is a United Way member agency.
I helped the United Way with grant proposal writing as well.
I made the huge mistake to apply for a grant with a big funder for the United Way as well as our own organization (so two separate proposals with the same funder). I received an email from the United Way executive office last Monday that they had received a cheque for a big amount of money. I looked up the proposal I had written and I had requested a lot less, leaving me wondering what had happened.
This morning my executive director complained that we still hadn't heard from that funder and this eerie feeling crept on to me that United Way got our money. There is no way in hell United Way is going to give that money to us. I explained this to my executive just to come clean that I helped them as well and she had a hard time trying to cover her disappointment.
I can't continue my volunteer work for the United Way this way. Above all I feel like a big naive idiot that I hadn't thought about that mixing of interest before. Well now I know.