What We Grantwriters Love To Do Most

We recently convened around a table laden with the bounty of the Northwest - Vietnamese Sandwiches, Beans and Rice with Tom Douglas' bar-b-que sauce, Costco hor devours, Trader Joe's organic Oreos, and Chinese cookies. We sat for a while, talked, decided to break for food, talked some more, then got down to work. In three hours we got an hour and a half's work done, but it was done well and everybody participated and it never bogged down in pretense or silence. Everybody respected everybody else and the problems of the org were confronted and we went on. Then we had some fun talking grantmakers. Which among all the ones we had to choose from would back our venture? Wait, we have two ventures and we don't want them to conflict - landing at the same time on the same grantmaker's desk. So we worked that out and we all chose something that needed to get done and promised we'd see to it that it got done. These were professionals. I felt great to be among them.