Why I Believe in Baumhart
Corporate executives, social entrepreneurs, and nonprofit leaders believe in the Baumhart Center's work to promote social business.
Susan Crown, Chairman and Founder, Susan Crown Exchange
"It's bridging between all these various sectors and bringing them together so they can learn from one another and so they can innovate."
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Paul Fisher, Former President & CEO, CenterPoint Properties
“What I love about Loyola is this focus on the whole person. We’re going to educate you, as well as place you into society with a mission."
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Janet Froetscher, President, Pritzker Family Foundation
"To be able to create lasting change, [business and nonprofit leaders] need to be able to talk to each other."
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Dorri McWhorter, CEO, YMCA Metropolitan Chicago
“For Baumhart to be ahead of its time relative to helping people understand that you can’t do business and purpose exclusively, that they to be integrated, is something that will definitely serve students in the long run.”
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President and CEO, Nordson Corporation
“I think it’s fantastic to see the Baumhart Center, as well as Loyola, taking a really focused effort around how you combine business and social purpose.”
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Matt Summy, Regional Vice President, Comcast
“It’s those human connections you get through a center like the Baumhart Center that helps us not only find the ways we can have an impact but help us find partners to achieve those impacts.”
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William Towns, Executive Director, Benefit Chicago
"This initiative, I think, will be seen globally as an example for other institutions around the world to mimic and follow, and will, I think, have a tremendous impact," says William Towns.
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Neli Vasquez Rowland, President, A Safe Haven Foundation
“Doing well and doing good are not mutually exclusive terms. In fact, they actually enhance one another.”
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Kevin Willer, Partner, Chicago Ventures, and Trustee, Loyola
"I think the Baumhart Center's work is the most important work we can be doing in Chicago."
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