{"id":840,"date":"2015-05-08T15:05:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T19:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verista.org\/?p=840"},"modified":"2015-07-08T15:15:33","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T19:15:33","slug":"new-sponsorship-new-board-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verista.org\/index.php\/2015\/05\/08\/new-sponsorship-new-board-members\/","title":{"rendered":"New sponsorship, new board members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its board meeting today, the Verista board elected two new members, Ann Ravenstine and Arnold &#8220;Skip&#8221; Isaacs. Their biographies are on the <a href=\"http:\/\/verista.org\/index.php\/test\/board-of-directors\/\">Board of Directors page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The five members voted unanimously to:<\/p>\n<p>-Offer sponsorship to <a href=\"http:\/\/newslens.pk\" target=\"_blank\">News Lens Pakistan<\/a>, an independent news organization which Board President Lisa Schnellinger launched in her role as President of <a href=\"http:\/\/nearmediallc.com\" target=\"_blank\">NearMedia LLC<\/a>. News Lens is owned by the Pakistani nonprofit <a href=\"http:\/\/mediafoundation360.org\" target=\"_blank\">Media Foundation 360<\/a>. \u00a0Verista will accept contributions via PayPal on behalf of News Lens and will pass through any fees from PayPal.<\/p>\n<p>-Clarify the fiscal sponsorship of Herb Bus to ensure that it meets legal standards.<\/p>\n<p>-Write and adopt a Conflict of Interest policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its board meeting today, the Verista board elected two new members, Ann Ravenstine and Arnold &#8220;Skip&#8221; Isaacs. Their biographies are on the Board of Directors page. The five members voted unanimously to: -Offer sponsorship to News Lens Pakistan, an independent news organization which Board President Lisa Schnellinger launched in her role as President of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/verista.org\/index.php\/2015\/05\/08\/new-sponsorship-new-board-members\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New sponsorship, new board members<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7bbwE-dy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/verista.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/verista.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/verista.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verista.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verista.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/verista.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845,"href":"https:\/\/verista.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions\/845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/verista.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verista.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verista.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}