Each corporate or foundation member of the Satell Institute pledges at least $25,000 per year for four years — a minimum of $100,000 — to one or more nonprofits of its own choosing. This multi-year commitment ensures that nonprofits have the long-term backing they need to thrive.
Jonathan Kirschner, Psy.D., Founder and CEO
Bev Hendry, CEO
Norman Cohn, Chairman
- Alike Foundation
Brad Aronson, Founder
Justin Wineburgh, CEO
Gene Chaiken, Chairman
Bruce Foulke, President and CEO
Marc Bruno, COO, U.S. Food and Facilities
- Ash Family Foundation
Frank Ash, Founder
- AMETEK Inc.
David A. Zapico, Chairman and CEO
John Lawton, Principal and CEO
- BNY Mellon Wealth Management
Laura LaRosa, President, Mid-Atlantic Region
Travis Rhodes, Regional President
- Balford
Larry Walker, CEO
James (Jim) Dever Jr., Market President
Mark Baiada, Chairman
Robert A. Brandt III, CEO
Charles Cohen, CEO
Private CEO Conference
We offer our members private, invitation-only, CEO conferences for their enrichment. Members are always encouraged to bring CEO guests—potential members—leaders of organizations interested in CSR.
Each conference includes the Satell Institute hallmark—moderated peer executive round tables, with a mix of for-profit, CSR and nonprofit leaders at each. Participants discuss and question best practices as well as strategies of how to make the biggest impact with CSR programs.
The CEO Conferences take place twice a year. The next event will be held in Fall 2021.
Spring 2020 CEO Conference
Member Programs
Million Dollar Match
Our nonprofit affiliates and ― by extension, our communities ― were the beneficiaries of the Satell Million Dollar Match Opportunity. On May 4, 2020, Ed Satell pledged $1,000,000 of personal funds through the Satell Institute to support Nonprofit Affiliates of the Satell Institute with this message:
“These funds are urgently needed by nonprofit organizations due to the extreme impact of the COVID-19 crisis. Nonprofits, who I see as the heroes of our society, must be able to carry out their important mission-driven purposes that are so vital to overcoming real problems that exist for people within the community.”
In a short space of days, the business and civic leadership of the region, Members of the Satell Institute, surged to meet Ed’s challenge.
So many Members were inspired to choose to contribute considerably more than their match to the Nonprofit Affiliate of their choice! Almost $3,000,000 in funds went to more than 70 Nonprofit Affiliates!
This is Corporate Social Responsibility in action!
This is thinking WE, not just me on a grand scale!
Thank YOU for your generosity.
Partnership Stories
Make hope happen
- Franklin C. Ash
- Founder
- Ash Family
- Foundation
- Nancy Astor Fox
- Chief Development Officer
- JEVS Human Services
The Natural Connection
- Kathy Killian
- Vice President, Administration
- The Phillies
- Ellyn C. Phillips
- Board Chair
- The ALS Association, Greater Philadelphia Chapter
Advancing Infrastructure to move Beyond Hunger
- Dan Koval
- Corporate Initiatives Manager
- Bentley Systems, Inc.
- Anne Shuniak
- Marketing & Communications Manager
- Chester County Food Bank
Business taking responsibility for encouraging its potential future workforce
- Karen DeLise
- Manager, Leadership and Organizational Development
- UGI Utilities, Inc.
- Dr. Frederic Bertley
- Senior VP of Science & Education
- The Franklin Institute
Investing in young people, creating our future
- Deborah O’Brien
- Market Executive
- Bank of America
- Chekemma Fulmore-Townsend
- President & CEO
- Philadelphia Youth Network
Moving Forward Together
- Brad Aronson
- Founder
- Alike Foundation
- Dan Rhoton
- Executive Director
- Hopeworks
Partnering to lead education to excellence
- Vernita Dorsey
- SVP, Director of Corporate Strategy
- WSFS Bank
- Tamara Smith
- Executive Director
- Teach for America – Delaware
Empowering student leadership, civic engagement and positive values
- Kevin Duffy
- President
- Tozour Energy Systems
- Peggy Sweeney
- VP
- National Liberty Museum
Real Partnership ― teamwork, leadership, self- discipline and confidence
- Mary Meder
- President
- Harmelin Media
- Matt Aaron
- President & CEO
- Special Olympics PA
A powerful 22-year partnership
- Ed Satell
- CEO
- Progressive Business Publications
- Michael Lowe
- Principal
- Cook-Wissahickon Elementary School
The Satell Institute continues to grow, building the movement for effective CSR.
Membership
Why the Four-Year Commitment? Why a Minimum of $25,000 Per Year? Why is There No Membership Fee?
CEOs on CSR
Osagie Imasogie
Co-Founder and Senior Managing Partner PIPV Capital
“CSR is something that you live. It’s something that you use. For me and my wife, it’s how we breathe. You have an obligation to give. You have an obligation to lead. You have an obligation to support the nonprofit world.”
Alan Luxenberg
CEO
Foreign Policy Research Institute (ret.)
“I never could have imagined the network of people Ed Satell has brought into the Satell Institute and the CEO conferences they have had. It’s really astonishing.”
Bill Sasso
Chairman
Stradley Ronan
“I think that perhaps the most dramatic change is the one that has been initiated by the Satell Institute to get business leaders working together to commit their organization in a very meaningful way to CSR. I believe this is the first really concerted effort to unify the business community behind CSR. Prior to this time, everyone did their own thing and there was some effort to bring people together, but nothing as successful as what the Satell Institute has done in a very short period of time.”
Chris Franklin
CEO
Aqua America
“Employees have come to expect and appreciate being part of a company that is active as a community supporter. Ed Satell is a great model to make sure we’re all thinking about Corporate Social Responsibility. It’s what the country needs more of. Why wouldn’t I be doing this so CEOs can learn from each other what we could do better?”
Alan Cohn
President
Sage Financial Group
“I do feel like it’s our responsibility to make the world a better place. I read a quote yesterday that maybe you heard before: ‘Service to others is the rent we pay for our room here on earth.’ Muhammad Ali said that. When I’m talking with other business leaders, I feel the same vibe. I think the attendance at the Satell Institute meetings, and the membership list at Satell, is a testament to that. Some very busy folks are carving out a lot of their time to do this.”
Lorina Marshall-Blake
President
Independence Blue Cross
“This commitment to idea sharing and ensuring that the perspectives of our nonprofit partners are part of the conversation speaks to the values and approach of the Satell Institute. They’re not there because they have to be there, they’re there because they want to be there. They realize that it’s important to be in business, but it’s also important to be in the business of helping when you have the opportunity to help.”
Bruce Foulke
President & CEO
American Heritage Credit Union
“I am so proud to be a part of what Ed is doing to help where the need is great. He genuinely wants to make this world a better place. We are only on this earth for a short time and the differences that Ed makes will outlast all of us.”
Vernita Dorsey
Vice President of CSR
WSFS Bank
“When we partner with nonprofit organizations, we’re really partnering to make relationships. It’s not just, ‘We’ll give you some money, one and done.’ We learn about the organization. When we form these relationships with our nonprofit partners, it’s helping us to do better at what we do.”
Chris Maguire
Principal
LIO Insurance
“The Satell Institute is talking about all the right things. And I think just the premise — getting people to communicate across these lines instead of everybody being in their own lane and doing their own thing. We’re all in this community together, and we should utilize our resources to make sure we’re not redundant.”
Tim McDermott
President
Philadelphia Union
“Sports teams do a really good job of leaning into their CSR initiatives. I think it comes with the territory of being a sports franchise and recognizing you have an opportunity to put smiles on people’s faces, you have an opportunity to make a difference in the community. At the Union, we’ve placed a lot of emphasis on this concept of community and making this one of the pillars of our organization. It’s not something that is just a thing on the side. It’s really woven through the things that we do.”
Bernie Shields
Regional President
M&T Bank
“Satell is unique and extremely interesting to me. And it’s consistent with our corporate ethos, which is supporting the communities where we live and where we profit. The bank does well here, so we want to do well by the community. We’ve taken on a bigger role in supporting the nonprofit community, while also supporting our clients and employees in what they do in the community, and that’s what drew me to Satell.”
Michele Juliana
Principal
RSM US LLC
“One thing that came out of the Satell CEO Conference last fall was that our people are our community. I think we’re naturally inclined to think of ‘the community’ as something external. But I think it’s important, as employers, to think of your community as starting with your employees and what their needs and issues are, and to think about what their communities are. We shouldn’t be thinking of social responsibility as something separate.”
Jay Culotta
Treasurer
Wawa, Inc.
“Just being involved with other corporate leaders who have the same kind of drive we have in terms of the community is invaluable. The banks are a great example. Most of the large banks in the area are involved, and through our relationships with them we’ve learned a lot.”
Phil Jaurigue
Chairman & CEO
Sabre Systems