{"id":6337,"date":"2025-09-17T22:16:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T22:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sistercitiesofgreenfield.org\/newsite\/?p=6337"},"modified":"2025-09-17T22:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T22:16:08","slug":"board-members-attend-international-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sistercitiesofgreenfield.org\/newsite\/board-members-attend-international-summit","title":{"rendered":"Board members attend international summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two members of the Sister Cities of Greenfield Board of Directors represented the organization at the <a href=\"https:\/\/sistercities.org\/sci-japan\/\">2025 U.S.-Japan Sister Cities Summit<\/a> in Izumisano City, Japan in September 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Board President Lyndi Grubb and board member Mitch Ripley attended the summit, which included panel discussions on a variety of topics from the base of growing a sister city relationship to the economics and diplomacy of the partnership. Grubb spoke on an expert panel about &#8220;Building a Vibrant Youth Program,&#8221; sharing how Sister Cities of Greenfield have built a connection with the community beyond the annual travel exchange with Kakuda City.<\/p>\n<p>Grubb discussed initiatives the board of directors have taken to visit classrooms in the Greenfield-Central Community School District, sharing Japanese culture with children as young as kindergarten. The board of directors has also built a relationship with the Hancock County Public Library, delivering books to Kakuda City to help their library build an English-language book collection.<\/p>\n<p>While at the conference, the board members also reconnected with representatives from Kakuda City, while making new connections with sister city representatives from across the United States and Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two members of the Sister Cities of Greenfield Board of Directors represented the organization at the 2025 U.S.-Japan Sister Cities Summit in Izumisano City, Japan in September 2025. Board President Lyndi Grubb and board member Mitch Ripley attended the summit, which included panel discussions on a variety of topics from the base of growing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sistercitiesofgreenfield.org\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/SCI-conference.jpg?fit=2048%2C1536&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zCVL-1Ed","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sistercitiesofgreenfield.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sistercitiesofgreenfield.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sistercitiesofgreenfield.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sistercitiesofgreenfield.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sistercitiesofgreenfield.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sistercitiesofgreenfield.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6339,"href":"https:\/\/www.sistercitiesofgreenfield.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6337\/revisions\/6339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sistercitiesofgreenfield.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sistercitiesofgreenfield.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sistercitiesofgreenfield.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sistercitiesofgreenfield.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}