Talk:Vera Institute of Justice

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I am an employee of this organization who has no interest in turning this page into an advertisement or the like. However, I would like to add the more-detailed version of Vera's history from out website (which disinterested observers can edit to perhaps make the language more anodyne) as well as Vera's mission statement. Further, I don't think the section on funding accurately represents Vera, focusing on the funding Vera's received from George Soros—a politically charged figure whose singling-out in the piece, to my mind, has intentional implications—and ignoring the vast, vast list of other funders Vera's had, both political and apolitical in nature. At the very least I would like the opportunity to balance out the Soros mention with something more anodyne. Vera is *not* an advocacy or partisan organization, it has worked often and extensively with Republican city and state officials, and I would ask to have our Wiki page reflect at least that much. There are further concerns I have with the page (primarily, the controversy section misrepresents not only our relationship with the program in CT but also with the employee in question [who was released some time ago]) but I'm happy to go one step at a time. I greatly appreciate the consideration and hope my being upfront concerning COI will earn me the benefit of doubt concerning my good faith. Thank you! Eliasisquith (talk) 18:26, 6 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Please feel free to edit the article. You have disclosed your affiliation, and that's good. Please write neutrally, and provide good, third-party sources where possible. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 22:17, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Funding and Activities
This page appears to be seriously incomplete and out of date, especially regarding Vera's current funding sources and activities. I am an employee of the U.S. General Services Administration performing general research on U.S. Federal contractors, their activities, and amounts of contracts awarded to them. In the course of this research I discovered that Vera has received large amount of Federal contracts over the last 12 years (over $700 million), which is inconsistent with the page's statement that "Vera's annual operating budget is approximately $25 million." I have added the information on Federal contracts received to the page, however I do not have time to further research and add the types of activities these contracts are associated with. These should be added, as it appears they may comprise a majority of Vera's funding and activities in recent years. Frededias (talk) 18:36, 29 December 2020 (UTC)