{"id":1191,"date":"2015-05-06T16:49:21","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T20:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/general-education\/?p=168"},"modified":"2024-01-30T15:50:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T20:50:06","slug":"weglarz-and-lindemann-win-inaugural-jane-till-nonprofit-startup-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/public-safety-policy-legal-studies-educational-information\/weglarz-and-lindemann-win-inaugural-jane-till-nonprofit-startup-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Weglarz and Lindemann win Inaugural Jane Till Nonprofit Startup Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This semester, community-minded St. Petersburg College students took part in the inaugural Jane Till Nonprofit Startup Series. Participants received eight weeks of training on how to launch a nonprofit idea of their own, and then competed at the campus level to see which plan was most promising.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/youtu.be\/Js36i1xCgRg<\/p>\n<p>The overall SPC champions of the series are the brother and sister team of Lawrence Weglarz and Pam Lindemann, whose charity organization, <i>Expunge U.S. Veterans<\/i>, will assist veterans with minor criminal histories with expunging or sealing their records.<\/p>\n<p>Their aim is to \u201crestore honor and dignity to veterans and their families.&#8221; The removal of minor criminal history will provide better employment, educational and community engagement opportunities for vets.<\/p>\n<p>As the series champions, Weglarz and Lindemann received $5,000 in startup capital from the Applied Ethics Institute of St. Petersburg College.<\/p>\n<p>Campus champions were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dwain Ream (St. Petersburg Gibbs)<\/li>\n<li>Lawrence Weglarz and Pam Lindemann (Seminole)<\/li>\n<li>Fatma Hedeia (Clearwater)<\/li>\n<li>Fallon Rhoden (Tarpon Springs)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Their proposals included the community services of low-cost spaying and neutering of pets, helping immigrant women assimilate into American culture, and services helping the needy become more financially stable. Each campus winner received a $500 award for their efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The campus winners faced off April 30 on the Clearwater campus at the collegewide finals to pitch their plans to a panel of community judges.<\/p>\n<p>The competition was created to honor the late Jane Till, who served as Associate Professor in the Applied Ethics Institute at the St. Petersburg\/Gibbs Campus. She lived by the personal philosophy that emphasized that a person does well in life by doing good things that benefit others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This semester, community-minded St. Petersburg College students took part in the inaugural Jane Till Nonprofit Startup Series. Participants received eight weeks of training on how to launch a nonprofit idea of their own, and then competed at the campus level to see which plan was most promising. http:\/\/youtu.be\/Js36i1xCgRg The overall SPC champions of the series &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/public-safety-policy-legal-studies-educational-information\/weglarz-and-lindemann-win-inaugural-jane-till-nonprofit-startup-series\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weglarz and Lindemann win Inaugural Jane Till Nonprofit Startup Series<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/public-safety-policy-legal-studies-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/public-safety-policy-legal-studies-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/public-safety-policy-legal-studies-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/public-safety-policy-legal-studies-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/public-safety-policy-legal-studies-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/public-safety-policy-legal-studies-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1999,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/public-safety-policy-legal-studies-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions\/1999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/public-safety-policy-legal-studies-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/public-safety-policy-legal-studies-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/public-safety-policy-legal-studies-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}