Concerning the application criteria, nowhere in the application does it say that being a new group is part of the funding criteria. If that has become part of the funding criteria, it should be made apparent to everyone asking for money. That was never part of any conversation we had with Status of Women, it is not written anywhere on the application, and it would have been good information to have.
The second point is that we at Womanspace were doing the work that government said is a priority: financial literacy. There is evidently a task force going across the country trying to find ways to teach financial literacy. We were doing it. We were successful at it; we even served 1% of the population in our small town. We reached a lot of people with our model, and we could have reached more, had we been renewed.