Summer Project

A couple of months ago, a friend (who used to work at my school but now works in neighborhood development) and I worked on a grant proposal that we thought was a total longshot. I mean, I was really into the idea itself: we wanted to run a summer journalism project with twelfth graders who live in the low-income neighborhood that my friend now works in. But I knew the competition would be stiff because the funder is a major community-development organization. I hadn't really even thought about our proposal at all once we submitted it.

Well, guess what? Yeah. We just got word that we got the money. Not 100% of what we asked for, but enough to go ahead with our plans.

I'm completely shocked.

And excited.

But, oh my god, I now have a huge summer project ahead of me.