March 29, 2024

Leadership So. Md. Earns Inspiration Award

Leadership Southern Maryland

Leadership Southern Maryland is a 2016 True Inspiration Award recipient by the Chick-fil-A Foundation. Pictured at the award presentation to the LSM Board of Directors are, from left, Stephanie Witte, owner of the California Chick-fil-A; Patrick Murphy of Leadership Maryland; Lee Capristo; Sharon Bouchard; John Felicitas; Susan Vogel; Steve Combs; Karen O’Connor; Helen Wernecke, LSM executive director); Anna Fagan; and John Flatley, owner of the La Plata Chick-fil-A.

Leadership Southern Maryland is a recipient of the Chick-fil-A 2016 True Inspiration Award for nonprofits. The award to LSM is a grant for $15,000, which will be used to support LSM’s Teen Leadership Academy.

LSM was nominated by John Flatley, owner of the Chick-fil-A restaurant in La Plata, and supported by Stephanie Witte, owner of the California Chick-fil-A. Witte is a member of the Leadership Southern Maryland Class of 2015.

LSM was one of 22 True Inspiration Award recipients in 17 states nationwide, receiving a combined $1.26 million in grants to further work fostering leadership in children. This is the second year of the Chick-fil-A Foundation award, which was inspired by the generosity of Chick-fil-A’s late founder S. Truett Cathy. Organizations either applied or were nominated by a local Chick-fil-A restaurant franchise.

LSM’s grant application was prepared and submitted by Susan Vogel of LSM’s Class of 2009 and LSM Executive Director Helen Mattingly Wernecke.

“We are honored to be a recipient of a 2016 Chick-fil-A True Inspiration Award for our work in the community. This grant will help us with our Teen Leadership Academy this year and into the future,” said LSM’s Board of Directors President Lee Capristo of the LSM  Class of 2011.

The grant awardees were honored at a celebratory event in Atlanta on May 20.
Click here to learn more about the True Inspiration Awards and view a complete list of recipients. inside.chick-fil-a.com/2016-true-inspiration-awards

Leadership Southern Maryland offers the Teen Leadership Academy in addition to its nine-month tuition-based adult executive program designed and dedicated to educate and inspire a diverse group of current and emerging leaders to create collaborations and partnerships to impact the community needs of Calvert, Charles, and St. Mary’s counties and incorporates a cross-section of the region to include diversity of geographic location, profession, ethnicity, and gender.

For more information, call Ms. Wernecke at 240-725-5469, email or visit the LSM website.

Visit Leadership Southern Maryland’s Leader member page.

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