Monday, 7 March

I spent better half of this morning tweaking Fiscal's "Foundations&Corporations FY01-FY05" donors list. It was illogically listed; or, at least, it was listed alphabetically by last name of foundation in the Development Dept and alphabetically by first name in the Fiscal Department, meaning that if the proper name of the Foundation started with The, on the list, it was put in with the T's. Completely illogical and non-standard. So I played around with the Excel Spreadsheet and whittled the list down to just 70 foundations (from over 230), eliminating duplications and the foundations I pulled from the filing cabinet on Friday.

The Grant Writer and I went in for a meeting with the Development Director to talk about the current state of affairs in the grant writing department. We discussed current deadlines, overdue deadlines and made plans for upcoming deadlines. The Director is just getting her feet wet, but she is clearly knowledgeable in this department, having a strong background in this area and confidence in her answers to our questions. She listens well and and seems fair and honest. She even had an agenda for our meeting, which last nearly 2 hours! We planned for a regular meeting on Tuesday mornings.

I worked 7 hours today.