{"id":845,"date":"2016-12-15T18:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/?p=845"},"modified":"2017-10-15T18:01:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T15:01:52","slug":"arab-american-museum-director-selected-as-2016-17-ngen-fellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/arab-american-museum-director-selected-as-2016-17-ngen-fellow\/","title":{"rendered":"ARAB AMERICAN MUSEUM DIRECTOR SELECTED AS 2016-17 NGEN FELLOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEARBORN &#8211; YAN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Independent Sector, the only national membership organization that brings together nonprofits, foundations and corporations to advance the common good, recently announced its 2016-17 cohort of American Express NGen Fellows, which includes Arab American National Museum (AANM) Director Devon Akmon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 12 outstanding charitable-sector leaders aged 40 and under will engage over the next year in a range of activities that deepen individual capabilities, expand collective knowledge and grow professional networks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very honored to have been selected to join such a talented and accomplished cohort of nonprofit professionals,\u201d says Akmon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur involvement within the fellowship program raises AANM\u2019s presence on a national scale, making more people aware of who we are, what we do and how we do it,\u201d says Akmon. \u201cThis experience allows a space for deep thought and reflection while increasing our ability to create new networks and amplifying the Museum\u2019s voice within the sector.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The complete list of 2016-17 NGen Fellows includes:<\/p>\n<p>* Devon Akmon, Director, Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI<\/p>\n<p>* Ivan Canada, Executive Director, The National Conference for Community and Justice of the Piedmont Triad, Greensboro, NC<\/p>\n<p>* Jane Cheung, Vice President of Programs, The Pablove Foundation, Los Angeles<\/p>\n<p>* Paul Daugherty, President and CEO, Philanthropy West Virginia, Morgantown, WV<\/p>\n<p>* Radha Friedman, Director of Programs, World Justice Project, Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>* Lisa Fasolo Frishman, Senior Program Officer, Health Foundation for Western and Central New York, Buffalo, NY<\/p>\n<p>* Jeremie Greer, Vice President of Policy &amp; Research, Corporation for Enterprise Development, Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>* Abby Laine Sienkiewicz, Interim Executive Director\/CEO, Center for Nonprofit Excellence, Colorado Springs, CO<\/p>\n<p>* Neesha Modi, Program Officer, The Kresge Foundation, Troy, MI<\/p>\n<p>* Ola Ojewumi, Founder, Project ASCEND, Beltsville, MD<\/p>\n<p>* Kashif Shaikh, Founder and Executive Director, Pillars Fund, Chicago<\/p>\n<p>* Jamie Smith, Co-Executive Director, Young Nonprofit Professionals Network, New York<\/p>\n<div class='clear '><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DEARBORN &#8211; YAN &nbsp; Independent Sector, the only national membership organization that brings together nonprofits, foundations and corporations to advance the common good, recently announced its 2016-17 cohort of American Express NGen Fellows, which includes Arab American National Museum (AANM) Director Devon Akmon. &nbsp; The 12 outstanding charitable-sector leaders aged 40 and under will engage [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions\/847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}