Today's task: The budget for the Second Chance Re-Entry Grant application Macon County is submitting.
I'VE LEARNED that the grant process is time-consuming, insecure and generally frustrating. Living and working in Illinois is wonderful experience. Every program in Illinois must learn how to do with less (or none) or learn how to work the system to get more. Grants are being cut right and left. Successful programs are being chopped for short-sighted budget cuts.
I've been analyzing data all day long. Macon County can't stand to lose any more funding. Macon County needs more help, not less. Macon County is home to a whole host of social issues from obesity to teen pregnancy, truancy to juvenile delinquency, not to mention unemployment and poverty, gangs and youth violence. You can't fix the problems with money alone, but we at least need to keep what little money we have.
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