Grantseeker Responses to Q&Cs
The way in which the applicant answers the Q&C tells yon almost as much as the answers themselves. If the applicant answers a complex Q&C by return mail, it suggests that the applicant is desperate to get the money. If, in contrast, the applicant takes many months to respond to a straightforward Q&C, the implication is that the proposal is not high on the grantseeker's priority list. Parenthetically, it is almost a given that the applicant who has taken months to respond will telephone the day after the foundation finally receives the long-awaited response and ask if the foundation has made a decision on the proposal yet!
After the response has arrived, you must decide whether the proposal-cum-addendum or rewritten ...
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