Our surveys about the application process have been making their way back to us fairly regularly over the last few days.These surveys were sent out last week to the town managers, energy directors, and any other officials responsible for getting their town's grant applications completed. We have had 13 respondents out of the 43 people who received the surveys.
As students we were able to identify with one of the trends in our survey results. A majority of the respondents did not write anything in the space given for free response. We know that whenever we are asked to write a block of text, but that block of text is optional, we opt out. So did many of our respondents. This leaves us with a question whose answer could help future projects. How do you get someone to actually fill out a free response?
Today in our meeting with our sponsors and advisers we discussed the possibility of cold-calling those applicants who did reply to the survey at all and trying to get on the spot interviews with them. This could bolster the amount of anecdotal evidence we have and improve the quality of the final results.
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