As Ethel Kaplan, a lawyer at a wealth-management firm and the chair of the board, put it, "Nobody wanted to sit back and read grant proposals — especially from poets".
Anti-racism festival, women's festival, gay festival, solidarity with Cuba, solidarity with Venezuela, petitions to sign, leaflets to read, grant application forms to fill in, copies of Socialist Worker to purchase.
The trustees of the Awesome Foundation each contribute $100 a month and meet monthly to read grant applications.
It took only a few weeks of reading grant applications from educational, cultural, social, environmental and even journalistic groups to realize that the foundation world is equally burdened with limp, lazy usages.
Visit its Web site to read about grants and fellowship you can apply for.
His advice for junior faculty: "I think your grants need to be very focused, and they need to be very well written, and you should not be afraid to have multiple faculty members read those grants".
The city then put in place a less focused reading curriculum that the federal government later declared ineligible for federal reading grants under No Child Left Behind.
The administration was embarrassed yet again when the federal government threatened to withhold nearly $35 million in reading grants unless the city junked the reading curriculum that was being used in troubled elementary schools.
The latest, correct, edition read: "Veloso granted reprieve".
Did you want to read the grant proposal?
Writing about your achievements can be tricky, though, and parts of the narrative read like grant proposals, with separate sections written by either Mark or Delia.
