Patrice (Pat) Wong joined CWC’s Affiliate team in 2013, bringing more than three decades of leadership experience in the corporate, nonprofit, and government sectors. While at CWC, Pat has consulted with organizations that provide senior services, affordable housing development, early childhood education, residential programs for pregnant and parenting teens in the foster system, environmental education, and performing arts education. In addition to a proven grantsmanship record with foundation and corporate philanthropic sources, she also has a demonstrated track record of success in securing public contracts and grants at the city, county, state, and federal levels. Besides grantsmanship, her specific nonprofit experience includes infrastructure capacity building, strategic planning, program development, team leadership, program evaluation, and succession planning. 

Pat holds an MBA in Marketing from the USC Marshall School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts in Social Psychology from Occidental College. She also completed executive education in Commercial and Industrial Development at the USC School of Urban and Regional Planning, and in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She is currently a member of the Board of Trustees for Goodwill Southern Los Angeles County.