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National & Chapter Events

March

Why NAWBO!

Mar 10 2020 - 4:00pm – 4:30pm
Virtual Connect & Learn: Personalities, Profits and Progress or Building Successful Relationships

Mar 12 2020 - 5:00pm – 6:00pm

April

Virtual Connect and Learn: Personality Differences and How to Communicate Effectively with Each Personality

Apr 9 2020 - 5:00pm – 6:00pm
NAWBO Member Orientation

Apr 23 2020 - 12:00pm – 12:30pm

May

NAWBO-CA's Propel Your Business Conference

May 4 2020 - 8:00am – May 5 2020 - 5:15pm

Member Spotlight

Hilary Lentini

December 3, 2015
By hlentini

Drawing on over 20 years of experience in the advertising and creative services industries, Hilary Lentini possesses both a creative flair and solid business acumen. She enjoys the challenge of creating unique solutions for her clients’ design needs, always resulting in original and compelling campaigns and projects that drive their objectives. Her firm operates as a virtual marketing department for non-profit, government agency, and public sector clients across the country.
- Read more about Hilary Lentini
Meet Staci Caplan, Public Policy Chair

December 3, 2015
By hlentini

Staci is a California Real Estate Broker and owner of Pacific Crest Realty.

At our local Santa Barbara Associations of REALTORS, Staci has served on the Board of Directors, on the Government Relations Committee, on Budget and Finance, and currently serves on the Multiple Listing Committee and the REALTOR Action Fund Committee, working to get other REALTORS to invest in protecting private property rights and raising awareness about issues affecting the industry.
- Read more about Meet Staci Caplan, Public Policy Chair
Creativity and Practicality Helps Calla Gold Jewelry Shine

June 8, 2015

Just looking at her name, it seems that Calla Gold was destined to be a jeweler. But with a background in sales, tremendous creativity and an entrepreneurial spirit, it’s clear that her success as owner of Calla Gold Jewelry is attributed to much more than her name.
- Read more about Creativity and Practicality Helps Calla Gold Jewelry Shine

A strong, unified voice

NAWBO Bravo! Awards 2012

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Real Professional Growth

WE WORK TO STRENGTHEN THE WEALTH-CREATING CAPACITY OF OUR MEMBERS & PROMOTE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE ENTREPRENEURIAL COMMUNITY

NAWBO-California Education Fund

NAWBO-California Education Fund, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, was formed in 2010 to expand the educational opportunities for emerging and established women entrepreneurs.

NAWBO-California leadership had the vision to create an organization for education including leadership, governance and organizational capacity.

Notes from NAWBO-CA

Greetings all! So much is happening! NAWBO-CA has signed on to co-sponsor SB 873, the Gender Equity (Pink Tax) bill by Senator Jackson.

Studies have confirmed the existence of a “gender tax” or “pink tax”: a practice in which businesses charge more for products marketed to female consumers than they charge for products marketed to male consumers, even when the two products are essentially exactly the same. Read more here.

Registration is open for the Propel Your Business Conference!

May 4-5, 2019 Citizens Hotel, Sacramento

We're excited to announce our next Propel Conference! This year’s theme of “Women in Power...” means that women in power… lead, inspire, mentor, advance, open doors, create opportunity, advocate, champion, create change, and beyond. REGISTER HERE and learn more about sponorship oportunities here.