{"id":23077,"date":"2022-11-23T11:12:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T16:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grantwatch.com\/grantnews\/?p=23077"},"modified":"2022-12-18T03:33:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T08:33:32","slug":"thanksgiving-2022-gratefulness-equals-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grantwatch.com\/grantnews\/thanksgiving-2022-gratefulness-equals-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving 2022: Gratefulness Equals Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After going through a very large migration to a new server, myself and my staff are worn out. 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I am quite exhausted, grateful, and hopeful all at the same time. In essence, we have moved our code to a very large new home, and we had to put back every single piece of code, so it works seamlessly in our new environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We very much like our new server and we have even started uploading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grantwatch.com\/grantnews\/new-feature-the-most-recent-990s-are-now-on-grantwatch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">990 reports<\/a> and designing new charts and graphs to make the data easily viewed and useable for our subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am so grateful to my staff for working side-by-side with me, every step of the way. They look forward to the future needs of the people we serve. The GrantWatch staff respects the work of our customers, and appreciate being involved in the greater good .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we think of happiness, we pair it with gratefulness. 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