{"id":1493,"date":"2013-06-26T10:43:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T14:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2013-06-26T20:44:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T00:44:38","slug":"vhp-milestone-the-first-community-advisory-board-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/2013\/06\/vhp-milestone-the-first-community-advisory-board-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"VHP Milestone: The First Community Advisory Board Meeting!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today was a great moment for the Vassar Haiti Project.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first Community Advisory Board was held in NY by co-chairs Caryn Halle and Diana Salsberg bringing 8 notable local community members together to create a platform to contribute to the Vassar Haiti Project through their connections, energy, passion to effect the world and financial support. This meeting has been a dream of ours for years, but we could never &#8216;get to it.&#8217; Student volunteers are amazing, but the time was ripe for community members to collaborate with students and who knows what miracles can happen!<\/p>\n<p>Letting go and putting a dream in someone else&#8217;s hands is not an easy task, especially when it is &#8216;your dream.&#8217;\u00a0 But learning how to give it away, thanks to the Self Expression and Leadership Course has been so important.<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly, you have to share your vision with someone you trust&#8230;and no one is better qualified than Caryn, who has been with VHP from the start and who knows and understands our vision and how we work &#8216;outside the box.&#8217;\u00a0 Thank you Caryn for all that you will be creating for VHP and Haiti.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a great moment for the Vassar Haiti Project. The first Community Advisory Board was held in NY by co-chairs Caryn Halle and Diana Salsberg bringing 8 notable local community members together to create a platform to contribute to the Vassar Haiti Project through their connections, energy, passion to effect the world and financial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1351,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-partners","category-voices-from-vhp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1521,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions\/1521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}