Gaming Again?

I received an interesting phone call last week. A representative from BC Gaming called to inform me that our children's programs qualified under new eligibility requirements for Direct Access funding. I could apply and receive up to a third of what our gaming grant used to be. I was reluctant to say the least. We've spent the last three years recovering from the loss of those funds, slowing gaining stable funding from other sources and feeling quite proud that we had weaned ourselves off of a less-than-ethical source of revenue. It's a lot of work putting a gaming grant application together. With limited resources, how do I justify spending that time with no guarantee there's something at the end of it? And only a third of what we used to get, which really wasn't all that much. There were just so many questions, but really only one answer. When someone calls you and says "apply for some money, please," well, all politics aside, you just do it. The application went into the mail today.