{"id":14026,"date":"2016-09-17T01:02:58","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T08:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/?p=14026"},"modified":"2016-09-17T01:02:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T08:02:58","slug":"nfia-seeks-award-nominations-for-outstanding-achievements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/nfia-seeks-award-nominations-for-outstanding-achievements\/","title":{"rendered":"NFIA SEEKS AWARD NOMINATIONS FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Federation of Indian American Associations is seeking nominations for awards for outstanding achievements. \u2013 @siliconeer #siliconeer #NFIA #community #indianamerican #siliconvalley #losangeles #sfbayarea #society<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The National Federation of Indian American Associations (NFIA), an umbrella organization comprising of over 200 associations, representing\u00a0over 3\u00a0million Americans who trace their roots to India, is seeking nominations for awards for outstanding achievements to be given at its 19<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0biennial convention in Seattle, Washington, on the weekend of Sept. 30-Oct. 1-2, 2016. The last date to submit nominations with relevant documents about the nominee is\u00a0Sept. 20.<\/p>\n<p>The awards will be presented at the gala banquet, on\u00a0Oct. 1. The selected candidates must be present at the Award Ceremony.\u00a0Nominations are invited for outstanding accomplishments in the following categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Service to the Indian American community<\/li>\n<li>Sciences<\/li>\n<li>Liberal and Fine Arts<\/li>\n<li>Performing Arts<\/li>\n<li>Medicine and Health Sciences<\/li>\n<li>Education<\/li>\n<li>Engineering and Technology<\/li>\n<li>Business and Finance<\/li>\n<li>Mass Media-Radio, Television, Newspaper<\/li>\n<li>Government and Non-Profit Institutions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Indian American associations and individuals are encouraged to nominate distinguished Indian Americans or institutions that have done an outstanding job in their chosen field and submit nominations at the address\/email given below, with following documents:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Copy of the resume of the nominee<\/li>\n<li>Copy each of the documents in support of qualifications (publications, awards, recognition letters, etc.); and<\/li>\n<li>Names, addresses and telephone number and e-mail address of two references<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Awards Selection Committee:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3818 Gleneagles Dr. , Tarzana, CA 91356.<\/p>\n<p>Phone:\u00a0(818) 708-3885<\/p>\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:indersingh.usa@gmail.com\">indersingh.usa@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Federation of Indian American Associations is seeking nominations for awards for outstanding achievements. \u2013 @siliconeer #siliconeer #NFIA #community #indianamerican #siliconvalley #losangeles #sfbayarea #society The National Federation of Indian American Associations (NFIA), an umbrella organization comprising of over 200 associations, representing\u00a0over 3\u00a0million Americans who trace their roots to India, is seeking nominations for awards&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/nfia-seeks-award-nominations-for-outstanding-achievements\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[275],"tags":[606,82,106,2150,2149,56,147,45],"class_list":["post-14026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-sfbayarea","tag-community","tag-indian-american","tag-los-angeles","tag-nfia","tag-silicon-valley","tag-siliconeer","tag-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}