# Taking the fun out of fundraising

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/1998/06/11/taking-fun-out-fundraising/
- Published: 1998-06-11T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Ken Wyman of Ken Wyman & Associates Inc. reminds us that life can be tough as a 
fundraiser. He passed on two strange but true stories from News of the Weird. 
In
November, Oregon State University physics professor John Gardner had a federal grant
application rejected, apparently solely because it was not typed double-spaced. (
Gardner, himself, is blind; he was applying to work on technology for the disabled.)

And in December, the Georgia Court of Appeals turned down, irrevocably, an appeal
by the state in a $2.7 million personal-injury case because the state’s paperwork
was submitted in New Times Roman typeface instead of the required Courier.

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