It's been a tough month. We have come so far trying to tie the pieces together.
The political environment has shifted from a feel good grass roots effort into insecurity. The President is proposing a major reduction in Community Service Block Grant funding this year - and a 50% cut next year from that. Our leaders have a lot of work to do to attempt to create common sense into the minds of the very ones who have proposed this nonsense. This will affect so many people - men, women and children who are living low income and create a further gap with the working poor.
Priorities have changed. Energy and resources are needed to tighten down existing structure and current more important vision is first and foremost. Situations such as this project are going to be placed on the less important list. I call it survival of our agency and working toward making it continue to be as viable as possible and understandably - for as long as it can before painful cuts are made.
We won't be able to work on this project as in depth as I would like to see it go. Real efforts to put real food on the plates of people at risk. A big effort of good meaning that has met up with bad timing.
I take it as a failure anyway. But I have become wiser for it.
