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Press Release
PATTY DEDOMINIC PLEDGES $1 MILLION CHALLENGE GRANT TO ASSIST WOMEN
ENTREPRENEURS
Gift Is the Largest in the History of NAWBO
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Patty DeDominic and PDQCareers.com has announced an historic, $1 million challenge
grant to the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), Los Angeles
Chapter, and its educational non-profit, the Enterprise Institute of NAWBO-LA.
It is the largest gift from a single business owner ever received by the local
chapter or the national organization, which has more than 80 chapters nationwide.
DeDominic, founder & CEO, of PDQ Careers Group of Companies, heads one
of Los Angeles’ largest privately held staffing services, which she founded
in 1979. She has been active in NAWBO for 25 years, having served as the national
president, chapter president, and as NAWBO-LA president emeritus. As national
president for NAWBO in 1995, she helped lead delegations of women business owners
to the White House Conference on Small Business and to the United Nations Fourth
World Conference on Women in Beijing, China.
DeDominic said she hopes her gift will set an example and serve as an impetus
for other women to step up to support NAWBO, thus creating a legacy for the
next generation of entrepreneurs. The gift is a matching grant with the chapter
having ten years to raise an identical amount from individual donors, in effect,
doubling the contribution to the chapter.
“NAWBO has, for decades, been close to my heart and helped me in my own
business success,” DeDominic said. “There are many alternatives
when it comes to giving, but I wanted to ensure that NAWBO’s valuable
work would continue and that other entrepreneurs would be similarly inspired
to contribute.”
This isn’t the first time DeDominic has successfully provided a matching
grant to spur contributions. She previously gave a $100,000 matching gift to
help launch the Foundation for SCORE, a non-profit that provides business education.
That gift resulted in contributions from more than 900 individuals, which exceeded
many times over DeDominic’s original $100,000 grant.
DeDominic will be honored during the 20th
Annual NAWBO-LA Leadership & Legacy Awards Luncheon on March 17th as
the recipient of the Legacy/Philanthropist of the Year Award. The award is given
to an individual who has had a significant impact on the well being of her community
by providing leadership in raising funds and charitable donations for local
organizations or individuals in need.
She has also been active in numerous other organizations, serving as past chair
of the board of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, a past Commissioner
of the Americas for the World Association of Women Chiefs and an advisor to
the Women’s Leadership Board at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
University. She also helped create the Foundation for SCORE, which utilizes
the expertise of volunteer business leaders to provide business counseling to
small business owners.
The United States Congress, state governors, trade associations and her peers
have honored DeDominic and her firm for over twenty years. She has been recognized
for her work as a small-business advocate, as a community leader and as one
of “America's Finest Employers.”
About PDQ
PDQ Careers is a division of PDQ Personnel Services, Inc., founded in 1979 by
Patty DeDominic. The firm and its family of companies provide solutions and
advice on labor issues, staff challenges and planning, and innovative recruitment
strategies. PDQ and CT Engineering clients include the University of Southern
California, The Automobile Clubs, Wells Fargo Bank, Cedars Sinai Hospital, Children's
Hospital, Western University, the Aerospace Corporation, Boeing, the country
of Japan and local, state and the federal governments.
About NAWBO-LA
Founded in 1979, NAWBO-Los Angeles is one of the largest and fastest-growing
chapters of the National Association of Women Business Owners. NAWBO-LA strives
to empower and enable women entrepreneurs into economic, political and social
spheres of leadership. Representing more than 335,000 women-owned businesses
in Los Angeles and Long Beach, employing more than 700,000 people, and generating
more than $113 billion in annual revenues, NAWBO-LA members have become an increasingly
active and powerful force shaping the economic and political landscape of Southern
California. For more information about NAWBO-LA, please visit www.nawbola.org,
e-mail info@nawbola.org, or call (213)
622-3200.
About the Enterprise Institute of NAWBO-LA
The Enterprise Institute of NAWBO-LA is a 501(c)3 foundation dedicated to accelerating
initiatives and research that promote the entrepreneurship of women worldwide.
We accomplish this by building strategic alliances and partnerships that embrace
entrepreneurial excellence, create access and opportunities, and share knowledge
and information. For more information about the Enterprise Institute of NAWBO-LA,
please visit www.enterpriseinstitute4women.org
or call (213) 622-3200.
Press Contact:
Mary Schnack
800-529-7599, mary@prworks.ms
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