West Pinellas NOW
West Pinellas NOW January Chapter Meeting
We welcome 2026 as an opportunity to amplify
NOW Core Issues and continue to make "Good Trouble".
Location:
Perkins Restaurant
2626 Gulf To Bay Blvd, Clearwater, FL 33759
When: Wednesday January 28, 2026
Dinner at 5:00; Meeting at 6:00 PM
Guest Speaker 6:30PM
Meet In Person or Virtual
Please use the link below to join us virtually.
https://meet.google.com/obt-anup-mwz
Starting at 6pm Chapter Meeting OR 6:30pm for our Guest Speaker
Guest Speaker: Martha Lenderman
Martha's presentation will touch on her experience as a Baker Act consultant, a candidate for public office, and a community volunteer.
About Martha:
Martha Lenderman, MSW, is a Florida native best known for her statewide work with the Baker and Marchman Acts governing mental health and substance abuse issues. After a 30-year career with the State, she began a second 29-year career consulting, training clinical/legal/law enforcement personnel, and serving as an expert in civil litigation. She was appointed to two Supreme Court Commissions and authored the Bench Guide for judges and is posted on the Court’s website.
Martha actively volunteers, chairing the Suncoast Hospice Board, raising funds for the Pinellas Adult Drug Court to provide incentives for participants working their recovery plans, in addition to mentoring a Northeast HS student.
Martha actively supports political candidates, volunteers with the League of Women Voters, and she ran for the Legislature in 1998.
Support ERA
Equal Rights Amendment Petition
Congress must immediately recognize the Equal Rights Amendment and pass the following United States House and Senate resolutions:
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that notwithstanding any time limit contained in House Joint Resolution 208, 92nd Congress, as agreed to in the Senate on March 22, 1972, the article of amendment proposed to the States in that joint resolution is valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution, having been ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States.
Sign the Petition