About Levar
As a member of NALCAB’s executive leadership team, Levar Martin serves as Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, responsible for overseeing and integrating NALCAB’s national grantmaking, technical assistance and capacity-building work in the program areas of Equitable Neighborhood Development, Small Business Investment, Family Financial Capability and CDFI/Lending. He also leads NALCAB’s national Rural Capacity Building (RCB) program and rural Revolving Loan Fund, as well as the annual National Training Institute and Leadership Development initiatives, including the Pete Garcia Fellowship program.​ In addition, Levar oversees NALCAB’s contractual and fee for service work for providing technical assistance to government entities related to fair housing, federal entitlement programs, community engagement, analyzing and anticipating neighborhood change and housing policy.
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Before joining NALCAB, Levar worked as a manager for a small business and intern with the City of San Antonio’s Department of Planning and Community Development, focusing on GIS. Levar currently serves on Truist Bank’s Texas Advisory Committee, RAISE Texas’ Board of Directors and on the Small Business Displacement Advisory Board of the University of Maryland, College Park’s, National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education.
Levar earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with a concentration in Urban Studies from Trinity University and a Master of Science in Urban and Regional Planning from the College of Architecture, Construction and Planning at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA).
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