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lisa , larry summers wife wanted to apply to temple=on for her poetry tv course . is=there a way. or should she give up

she could apply, but she should know that there are only a few grants i= each round; most projects proposed don't get funding. It is like roll=ng the dice. what people don't understand is that many grants are not =unded not because they are defective in any way, but simply because there =s not enough funding to cover even a part of what comes in (there are thou=ands of applications and hundreds of millions of dollars of requests that =o all through different kinds of review; it is hard to know what will make=it through because different people make the priority decisions at differe=t stages of review; and it depends what other applications are in the pool=in a given cycle). There is no "direct" route anymore.

(also, no more strategic initiatives projects, and the Pre=ident does not make any grants anymore- everything goes through the genera= portal)