Afraid to call your Program Director because you don’t know what to say or even worse afraid you’ll say the wrong thing?!?
If so, we have just the article for you. Michael Spires a proposal development specialist at the Office of Sponsored Projects at the Smithsonian Institution provides insight in "What to say -and Not to Say-to Program Officers" at funding agencies.
Be sure to check out his article below.
http://chronicle.com/article/What-to-Say-and-Not-Say-to/131282/