Im in ur college raisin ur $$

My job can be somewhat opaque. If you're not satisfied with the summary ("I help raise money for the college"), you have to know quite a bit about how higher educational institutions operate in order to really understand just what I do.

But this might help: I spent many hours last spring working with others at Carleton to develop a rather sizable grant proposal to a particular funder, and then to arrange a site visit by the foundation's program officer. Though the outcome has been known on campus for a while, we were just cleared to announce the award: five million dollars. As a newbie to this business, I'm still a little bit agog at the sums.