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| Need to find an article before I lose it!
Posted by dizzyprincess  on 4/2/2008, 6:08 pm
Maybe I'm just venting but I would value your input anyways.
I work for a mid-size nonprofit of which I am the sole grantwriter. The woman who edits my proposals is a caustic, long-term employee. She will find a minor typo in one of my proposals, and instead of just returning the correction, will report it to our executive director as though our organization is about to shut down as a result. Then I get a scathing email from him about how I've wasted her time or caused confusion. She is a 50-year-old baby that he keeps happy by disparaging me. If she misses something that gets to the funder--very rare--he puts all the responsibility on me. She is not accountable at all for her job.
I have a high grant approval rate: 75%. Funders are constantly reporting how well my proposals are written. And yet I get walked over by this dynamic duo, like their own personal scapegoat.
I don't want to have to quit my job over this. Are there any articles I can share with them online that might educate them on the grantwriting process, and perhaps encourage them to find a new victim to scapegoat? In particular, I think she should know that it is the job of the writer to write, and the editor to edit.
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