{"id":640,"date":"2026-10-10T08:43:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T08:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/venkatchangavalli.com\/blog\/?p=640"},"modified":"2026-10-10T10:27:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T10:27:47","slug":"20-years-of-alert-reflections-from-the-advisory-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venkatchangavalli.com\/blog\/20-years-of-alert-reflections-from-the-advisory-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Years of ALERT: Reflections from the Advisory Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-644\" src=\"https:\/\/venkatchangavalli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/VC-Reflection-from-Advisory-Meeting-Image-300x211.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/venkatchangavalli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/VC-Reflection-from-Advisory-Meeting-Image-300x211.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/venkatchangavalli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/VC-Reflection-from-Advisory-Meeting-Image.jpeg 469w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>On 6 September 2026, I joined fellow advisors, mentors and changemakers as ALERT stepped into its 20th year.<\/p>\n<p>The Advisory Meeting was much more than a review. We looked back at milestones, shared memories of the journey, and talked candidly about the ideas that will shape ALERT&#8217;s next chapter. There was even a spirited quiz, which said a lot about the warmth of this community.<\/p>\n<p>What has always stood out to me about ALERT is its simple but powerful purpose: preparing ordinary citizens to step forward as first responders and Good Samaritans when every minute matters. Twenty years on, that commitment to saving lives is as strong as ever.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Twenty years of learning. Twenty years of impact. Twenty years of people coming together for a purpose.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My congratulations to the ALERT team, and my thanks to fellow advisors Mike Muralidharan, Mananathan R. Kandaswamy, Bharathan Veerappan, V V Anand Krishnan, Sujith Kumar, A S Kumar (ASK), Anand Anandkumar, Kala Balasundaram and Rajesh R Trivedi. I look forward to the many more lives this movement will touch.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read ALERT&#8217;s original post on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/alert-ngo-ugcPost-7503117647702761472-xN6D\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 6 September 2026, I joined fellow advisors, mentors and changemakers as ALERT stepped into its 20th year. The Advisory Meeting was much more than a review. We looked back at milestones, shared memories of the journey, and talked candidly about the ideas that will shape ALERT&#8217;s next chapter. There was even a spirited quiz, which said a lot about the warmth of this community. What has always stood out to me about ALERT is its simple but powerful purpose: preparing ordinary citizens to step forward as first responders and Good Samaritans when every minute matters. Twenty years on, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[43,45,46,44],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advisor","tag-alert","tag-community-first-response","tag-good-samaritan","tag-social-impact"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/venkatchangavalli.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/venkatchangavalli.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/venkatchangavalli.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venkatchangavalli.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venkatchangavalli.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/venkatchangavalli.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":645,"href":"https:\/\/venkatchangavalli.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/venkatchangavalli.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venkatchangavalli.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venkatchangavalli.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}