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| Re: The Conundrum's Conundrum
Posted by Kromer   on 2/4/2009, 5:29 am, in reply to "Re: The Conundrum's Conundrum"
The rights and liberties of funders was not and will never be questioned. But the practice of what has been termed "institutional bias" should be.
To assume the funding worthiness of a project--automatically--because of name recognition, national status or community standing will in my view and over time hurt us all. A project must in all cases stand on its own merits and its performance whether mine or a marquis organization.
Like the recipients of suspect mortgage applications, the sophistication and presentation of funding proposals has always fallen hard on the applicant; the presumption being that the rejection was caused by a "failure to communicate" or understand.
While funny in the film, "Cool Hand Luke," the summary rejections that are today's grant business practices are not so amusing nor the assumption that applicants strive to create a dependency-styled relationships. Are we referrring to some of the largest museums in the country or the guy at the lake in Anywhere, USA who mends the broken wings of shore birds?
Simply, if a foundation does not want to be bothered or otherwise annoyed by applications or queries, then get out of the business or de-list themselves from grant directories like the Foundation Center's.
We all have our rights and liberties. We all, as well, are entitled to a certain fairness; a fairness that has somehow been lost in the noise of the machinery that is this business.
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