{"id":61612,"date":"2018-03-21T07:55:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T07:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viconsortium.com\/?p=61612"},"modified":"2018-03-21T07:57:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T07:57:07","slug":"watch-nonprofits-voice-their-concerns-with-government-decision-to-halt-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.viconsortium.com\/?p=61612","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Nonprofits Voice Their Concerns With Government Decision To Halt Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Government Employees&#8217; Retirement System building on St. Croix Tuesday, CEOs and directors of nonprofit organizations voiced their concerns with a recent government decision to halt funding, citing liquidity issues. Since the meeting, organized by the Senate Committee on\u00a0Health, Hospitals and Human Services, chaired by Senator Nereida Rivera-O&#8217;Reilly and portions of which was broadcast live on The Consortium, Governor Kenneth Mapp has announced that the Office of Management and Budget &#8212; which wrote a letter to the Department of Human Services announcing the halting of funds (<a href=\"https:\/\/viconsortium.com\/opinion\/op-ed-government-should-not-cut-funding-nonprofits-providing-life-saving-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">the same letter that ignited the controversy<\/span><\/a>) &#8212; would resume releasing long overdue funding to the nonprofits in the next several weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Government Employees&#8217; Retirement System building on St. Croix Tuesday, CEOs and directors of nonprofit organizations voiced their concerns with a recent government decision to halt funding, citing liquidity issues. Since the meeting, organized by the Senate Committee on\u00a0Health, Hospitals and Human Services, chaired by Senator Nereida Rivera-O&#8217;Reilly and portions of which was broadcast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[191,593,147],"tags":[8035,7730,121,68],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Watch: Nonprofits Voice Their Concerns With Government Decision To Halt Funding - V.I. 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