I wish I had another funny story to tell you, but this had me excited and I felt it was time to share.
I started writing a grant for a project about a month ago for a domestic violence campaign. I'm not sure if any of you have written a grant but its not fun, its tedious and extremely time consuming. I was excited about the potential of this project if we were awarded the grant. Oh ya, that's the other part, the call for proposals were sent to over 50 people for an original project idea and only THREE organizations will be awarded 10,000 US dollars. I have a one in 16.666666666666 chance of receiving the grant that's taken me a month to write.
Not only was I consumed with writing this grant, I was also stressing over having my mom and aunt here in the middle of writing it. Thankfully I squeezed in work and play time, but only really procrastinated the completion. On Friday another volunteer and I were working on the grant when we started feeding off each others thoughts (we do this well) and realized we had multiple projects with no single big overlying idea. There are radio appearances, door to door campaigns, workshops, protests and community meetings. But no big idea to tie all of these strings together, so we started searching the internet for something big and BAM...This is the idea we are going to try to imitate here in small Grenada.
Awesome right? Grenada doesn't have a single building that's over 6 stories, so making that project 8 stories is impossible. We hope to downsize the faces a bit and make this project possible. I'm so excited to have the grant OFF of my hands and in the hands of UNIFEM, and I would be so ecstatic if we were awarded one of the grants. This project coincides with the 16 Days of Activism, related to stopping violence against women. Each year from November 25th to December 10th, countries all over the world commit to 16 days of activities related to ending violence against women. We hope to continue that tradition in Grenada this year.
Wish me luck!
Ps. My dear friend Ali arrives on island on WEDNESDAY!!!!!!!!!!!
