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Interim Chief Executive Officer
Patricia Murar
Interim Executive Director
Patricia (Patty) Murar is the Interim Executive Director of the National Association of Women Business Owners, Los Angeles Chapter. NAWBO-LA is a leading women’s business organization that inspires and empowers women entrepreneurs into economic, social and political spheres of leadership. One of the largest and most dynamic of the 80 nationwide chapters of the National Association of Women Business Owners, NAWBO-LA represents the interests of an estimated 543,000-plus privately held, 50% or more women-owned firms in the greater Los Angeles region, employing over 692,000 people and generating nearly $125 billion in sales. NAWBO-LA strives to ensure that women entrepreneurs are recognized as a public policy voice to be reckoned with, as a formidable economic force, and as effective agents for change in the dynamic business environment that is Southern California.
Prior to joining NAWBO-LA in mid-2008, Murar worked as an executive at the Women’s Foundation of California, created by a merger of The Los Angeles Women’s Foundation and The Women’s Foundation in San Francisco. She originally joined The Los Angeles Women’s Foundation in September 2000 as Vice President of Programs and Administration. She was appointed Executive Director of the Foundation in 2001 and President in 2002. She went to the Foundation after a 17-year career with United Way of Greater Los Angeles, most of it in management.
Murar has had nonprofit fundraising experience with both established organizations and start-ups. She gained community development experience with a City Council field office and a grassroots community-based effort as well as through United Way’s community planning function. She also has been an adjunct professor at California State University, Northridge, in nonprofit management and a faculty member with United Way of America’s National Academy for Voluntarism. She received a Bachelor’s Degree in Education and a Master’s Degree in English Literature from The Ohio State University and was an English teacher in her first career.
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