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Susan Crown, Chairman and Founder, Susan Crown Exchange

Susan Crown, chairman and founder of the Susan Crown Exchange, believes in the Baumhart Center.

"What's really interesting about Baumhart is that it's bridging between all these various sectors and bringing them together so they can learn from one another and so they can innovate," says Crown.

"It's just a really fascinating approach: bringing things together that are unlikely partnerships, but upon reflection seem like just the right fit."

Paul Fisher, Former President & CEO, CenterPoint Properties

Paul Fisher, Chair of the Baumhart Center Advisory Board, talks about his involvement with Loyola's Business Leadership Hub and the value of membership.

Janet Froetscher, President, Pritzker Family Foundation

Janet Froetscher, the President of the J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation, believes in the Baumhart Center.

“To be able to create lasting change, we need to be able to talk to each other. So for business leaders, nonprofit leaders to be able to understand the perspective they bring into the room…they need the exposure to each other. They need to be able to share dreams, share ideas, share approaches, understand each other,” says Froetscher.

And the better leaders understand each other, says Froetscher, the more trust they will have. “When you trust each other, you can do miracles.”

Dorri McWhorter, CEO, YMCA Metropolitan Chicago

Dorri McWhorter, the CEO of the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago, believes in the Baumhart Center.

In order to do well and do good, McWhorter believes students have to stop separating the two: “Make it one common goal because it doesn’t have to be mutually exclusive, and that’s where you have an opportunity to really create impact.”

In Dorri’s words, Baumhart is “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.”

President and CEO, Nordson Corporation

Sundaram Nagarajan, President and CEO of Nordson Corporation, believes in the Baumhart Center.

Naga has found that investors are caring more and more about how a company does good.

“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. People want to come to work for a company that wants to do more than just what the business is about.”

Matt Summy, Regional Vice President, Comcast

Matt Summy, Vice President of Comcast, believes in the Baumhart Center.

“If the company can play a role in improving communities, then that’s always our goal,” shares Summy.

“The Baumhart Center…seeks to be a center of gravity to not only bring together the resources of Loyola, but to bring the community together to talk about the ideas and then help talk about the implementation. Loyola is terrific in terms of those best practices, but it’s those human connections that you get through a center like the Baumhart Center that help us not only find the ways we can have an impact but help us find partners to achieve those impacts.”

William Towns, Executive Director, Benefit Chicago

William Towns, Executive Director of Benefit Chicago, believes in the Baumhart Center.

"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. The more people that get involved, the better the city and the better the world will be."

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Neli Vasquez Rowland, President, A Safe Haven Foundation

Neli Vasquez Rowland, Co-Founder and President of A Safe Haven Foundation, believes in the Baumhart Center.

Rowland believes society is shaped by how money is spent, earned, and invested.

“When I enrolled in Loyola University, I was really coming here for a degree in business. But what I got was not only a degree in business, but also a great foundation that helped me think about how doing well and doing good are not mutually exclusive terms. In fact, they actually enhance one another.”

Kevin Willer, Partner, Chicago Ventures, and Trustee, Loyola

Kevin Willer, partner at Chicago Ventures and trustee of Loyola University Chicago, believes in the Baumhart Center.

"I think the Baumhart Center's work is the most important work we can be doing in Chicago," says Willer. "We have an opportunity at Loyola and specifically through the Baumhart Center to help fuse the action of business creation and social impact and really be a leader nationally and globally for them."