{"id":36802,"date":"2018-10-14T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/?p=36802"},"modified":"2018-10-14T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T14:00:00","slug":"neighbors-recognitions-for-oct-14-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/neighbors-recognitions-for-oct-14-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbors recognitions for Oct. 14, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8226; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasmuson.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rasmuson Foundation<\/a> has hired Jeff Baird to serve as its first chief of staff, the organization announced Oct. 8. The foundation, created in May 1955, is Alaska&rsquo;s wealthiest philanthropic organization, with $704 million in assets as of the end of 2017. Baird, formerly a program officer in charge of administering grants, will now &ldquo;act as a central nerve center,&rdquo; according to the foundation&rsquo;s email announcing his appointment. Baird will coordinate the work of the foundation as it crosses its three components: finance and administration, programs and external affairs.<\/p>\n<div>&#8226; Jualani Ostrom of Juneau has graduated with distinction from Pacific University in Oregon, earning a doctorate in physical therapy, the school announced Oct. 8. Founded in 1849, Pacific University is a nationally recognized university offering undergraduate, graduate and professional programs in the arts and sciences, business, education, optometry and health professions from campuses in Forest Grove, Hillsboro, Eugene and Woodburn, Oregon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8226; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasmuson.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rasmuson Foundation<\/a> has hired Jeff Baird to serve as its first chief of staff, the organization announced Oct. 8. The foundation, created in May 1955, is Alaska&rsquo;s wealthiest philanthropic organization, with $704 million in assets as of the end of 2017. Baird, formerly a program officer in charge of administering grants, will now &ldquo;act as a central nerve center,&rdquo; according to the foundation&rsquo;s email announcing his appointment. Baird will coordinate the work of the foundation as it crosses its three components: finance and administration, programs and external affairs.<\/p>\n<div>&#8226; Jualani Ostrom of Juneau has graduated with distinction from Pacific University in Oregon, earning a doctorate in physical therapy, the school announced Oct. 8. Founded in 1849, Pacific University is a nationally recognized university offering undergraduate, graduate and professional programs in the arts and sciences, <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/business\/\">business<\/a>, education, optometry and <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/health\/\">health<\/a> professions from campuses in Forest Grove, Hillsboro, Eugene and Woodburn, Oregon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":36803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[64,332],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-36802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","tag-neighbors","tag-recognitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36802"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=36802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}