This is what a happy grant giver looks like

See this? This guy here? And the smile on his face? He's a grant giver. a grant monitor. And he really likes it when he doesn't have to chase down grantees for their paperwork.

So this is his face when he gets a report ON TIME. And it contains USEFUL information that makes his life and job easier. This grantee gets a gold star: its a little early.

Thing is, for some reason he figures that grantees should be on the lookout for submitting reports, filing papers, giving information, and communicating. Being responsible. It stands to reason, doesn't it? After all, the applicants accepted the money from his program, didn't they? They signed on the dotted line, right? As in, a legal contract? And why would they risk their grants, their projects, their funding, reputation over something silly like a report that takes an hour or two to generate? He wonders, why would they want to go out of compliance with federal funding? Why? WHY?

He asks you. Most of you.