Re: Grant-writing
Well, there is always the fact that government grants, by definition, are given to recipients that for whatever reason cannot convince anyone in the private sector to donate money for their purposes and so the recipient must rely on funding forced from taxpayers.
A cynic might think that maybe a lot of this stuff may therefore be a bit wasteful, or useless, but I'm sure that there are a lot of projects that are very nice. I'm sure it all seems very important and vital to the person or organization receiving the grant.