Question Regarding the Creative Community Residency & Residency Fund.

I applied For the residency fund grant & was just notified Via email that my application was rejected. The reason I applied was because I have done a soft launch of YobiWorks Studios while in the Veteran- in- Residence , Bunker Labs, Entrepreneur Program that started in July . Unfortunately, COVID led to the end of my After School Art Instruction while an unscrouplesS Property Mgr began harassing & I only just began releasing my 1s+ Graphic Novel @47yrs old on LinkedIn. So I switched from 22+ years in ops and logistics to my current role. I am debt free and own my airstream, but have to move and keep working on the graphic novel, to gain a team for the comic, that will be an animated feature, then regular cartoon. It is my applied anthropological unique solutions deployment plan. 

Anyway, Adobe emailed to set up a chat, but never replied to my providing my availability. I was going to apply for the residency with Adobe that is due Nov 2nd, but should I bother if my request to the residency fund was rejected because they don't like my work? The whole novel was/made with Adobe Fresco. I attended MAX and shout out all the time in social media and LinkedIn. I just don't want to waste anyone's time, when I could spend more on The Crux @ https://behance.org/yobiworks.