Learning to Write...

On October 30th, Reach will submit its first major grant to The Junior League of Washington. Through this process, I learned an important lesson: I don't know how to write grants. Fortunately, this week, I received the assistance of Sarah Cortes, a talented grant-writer from Eastern University. After receiving some substantive (and somewhat demoralizing) edits, I'm working again to make the proposal as strong as possible, though it's not easy to fit three years of work into five pages.

That being said, I'm tired of writing, so three things of note:

• I changed our tax structure this morning and saved (legally) $200 a quarter.
• I got a phone call this morning from an alumnus of my high school who is willing to sit down with me to talk about Reach. I think this could be helpful in building our DC network.
• We have a cocktail fundraiser on Friday, and given the recent fundraising difficulties, I'm feeling a lot of pressure to make every attendee fall in love with Reach.  

Thanks, as always, for reading.

Mark

Founder and President - Reach, Inc.