{"id":846,"date":"2015-07-08T15:23:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T19:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verista.org\/?p=846"},"modified":"2017-02-28T10:58:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T15:58:12","slug":"verista-forges-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verista.org\/index.php\/2015\/07\/08\/verista-forges-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Verista forges ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the six months since the organization was renamed Verista, with a new mission, the board has taken concrete steps toward fulfilling that mission.<\/p>\n<p>Verista has:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Registered on Dun and Bradstreet, on the U.S. System for Awards Management, and on Grants.gov, making the organization eligible to apply for grants from the U.S. federal government.<\/li>\n<li>Applied June 25 for a grant from the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, to produce a multimedia exhibit of Indian Americans practicing their faith in the United States.<\/li>\n<li>Become a fiscal sponsor of <a href=\"http:\/\/verista.org\/index.php\/2015\/05\/08\/new-sponsorship-new-board-members\/\">News Lens Pakistan<\/a>\u00a0and transitioned out of\u00a0its sponsorship of Herb Bus, in June.<\/li>\n<li>Adopted a Conflict of Interest Policy, on June 5 (see <a href=\"http:\/\/verista.org\/index.php\/test\/documents\/\">Documents<\/a> page).<\/li>\n<li>Redesigned the website, logo and header.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the six months since the organization was renamed Verista, with a new mission, the board has taken concrete steps toward fulfilling that mission. Verista has: Registered on Dun and Bradstreet, on the U.S. System for Awards Management, and on Grants.gov, making the organization eligible to apply for grants from the U.S. federal government. Applied &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/verista.org\/index.php\/2015\/07\/08\/verista-forges-ahead\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Verista forges ahead<\/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":true,"_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-846","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-dE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/verista.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","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=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/verista.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"https:\/\/verista.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/verista.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verista.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verista.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}