Topic: Stark Community Foundation is playing a key role in the positive economic transformation of Stark County. The release of the Foundation’s report: Strengthening Stark has been a catalyst for a cross-sector collaboration to accelerate economic growth and increase access to opportunity for all residents in our community. Mark will discuss the evolution of the report, key facts and the progress happening currently on the county-wide economic plan.
Mark J. SamolczykPresident and CEO
Stark Community Foundation
Stark Community Foundation
330-454-3426
msamolczyk@starkcf.org
As president and CEO of Stark Community Foundation, Mark is responsible for leading a team that partners with donors, families, professional advisors and organizations to assist them with their charitable goals. Under his leadership, the role of the Foundation has grown from a grantmaker to a community leader seeking long-term solutions to diverse community challenges. With more than $272 million in assets, Stark Community Foundation and its family of donors respond to local needs and challenges through carefully designed funds and programs.
Mark joined the Foundation in 2010, following a 30-year career at the Timken Company. While at Timken, his career encompassed a progression of management assignments in the United States, France, Mexico and Canada, culminating as senior vice president of corporate planning and development.
He is a board member of JumpStart, Team NEO, the William McKinley Presidential Library and Museum, The Fund for Our Economic Future, Community Building Partnership of Stark County, Inc., Stark Economic Development Board, the Downtown Canton Land Bank, and the Youngstown Diocesan Foundation.
A native of South Bend, IN, Mark earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of Notre Dame, a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Denver and completed the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.
Stark Community Foundation is the community’s trusted partner in giving to nearly 750 individuals, families, businesses and nonprofits that have created charitable funds to impact the lives of others through the most effective philanthropy possible. The Foundation and its family of donors have granted nearly $160 million to nonprofits since 1963. Learn more at www.starkcf.org.