{"id":32971,"date":"2021-06-11T07:14:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T11:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=32971"},"modified":"2021-06-08T08:42:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T12:42:06","slug":"vwcf-welcomes-laney-nofer-to-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/vwcf-welcomes-laney-nofer-to-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"VWCF Welcomes Laney Nofer to staff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"318\" height=\"412\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/VW-Foundation-Welcome-Laney-1.png?resize=318%2C412&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32972\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/VW-Foundation-Welcome-Laney-1.png?w=318&amp;ssl=1 318w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/VW-Foundation-Welcome-Laney-1.png?resize=260%2C337&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/VW-Foundation-Welcome-Laney-1.png?resize=160%2C207&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert County Foundation is happy to announce Van Wert native Laney Nofer as the newest member of the VWCF staff! Laney will provide in-house planning services, explore and pursue grant opportunities, and enhance resources available to The Foundation and Van Wert community. Laney attended The Ohio State University, where she received a Bachelors\u2019s Degree in Social Work and a Masters\u2019s Degree in City and Regional Planning. She has over five years of experience conducting public and private sector planning work in communities around Ohio, most recently with the Maumee Valley Planning Organization out of Defiance, Ohio.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laney recently relocated back to Van Wert with her husband, Clayton, and 1-year old son, Graham. She enjoys spending time with family and friends, trying new restaurants, and going on long walks &amp; bike rides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am so grateful and honored to be given this opportunity to serve my hometown through the Van Wert County Foundation. Our community is experiencing a strong momentum that I believe is fostered by feelings of pride for our town &#8211; a feeling I fondly grew up with in Van Wert. I\u2019m determined to protect and enhance that sense of community while continuing to grow the Foundation\u2019s vision of creating a well-resourced and thriving quality of life for our residents.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laney enhances The Foundation\u2019s vision of creating a well-resourced and thriving quality of life for our community.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to have Laney join our team,\u201d said CEO Seth Baker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLaney\u2019s role will allow us to broaden our community outreach efforts and enhance the Van Wert Forward initiative through project planning and grant writing efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Van Wert County Foundation is happy to announce Van Wert native Laney Nofer as the newest member of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2230,6,2301],"tags":[12872,12694,12871],"class_list":["post-32971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-community","category-community","category-general-news","tag-laney-nofer","tag-new-staff","tag-vwcf"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/VW-Foundation-Welcome-Laney-1.png?fit=318%2C412&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-8zN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 13:02:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}