Susan Crown

Susan M. Crown is an American executive, social activist, foundation leader and chair, and strategist based in Chicago. Crown, the daughter of Lester Crown, is Chairman of the Executive Committee of Illinois Tool Works,[1] a diversified manufacturer of engineered products and specialty systems. She is Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of Rush University Medical Center[2] and chaired the Facilities Committee in stewarding a $1 billion rebuild of its campus, including Chicago’s first LEED-certified hospital. She is also a trustee of The Chicago Public Education Fund and a director of CARE USA and Navy Pier, Inc.

Susan Crown is the Chairman and Founder of Susan Crown Exchange (SCE) Inc., a social investment organization focused on shaping an ecosystem of anytime, anywhere learning and promoting the development of 21st century skills for the rising generation. SCE’s work to bring social and emotional learning into common practice has resulted in the how-to guide “Preparing Youth to Thrive: Promising Practices in Social and Emotional Learning.” Crown's approach to philanthropy[3] is rooted in venture philanthropy and social impact investing principles.

Early life and education

The daughter of billionaire Lester Crown and Renée Schine, Susan Crown has a bachelor's degree from Yale University in Connecticut and a master's degree from New York University.[4] She also attended Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

Career

Crown is a partner of Henry Crown & Company, a Chicago-based firm that manages diversified investments in banking, manufacturing, healthcare, energy, real estate, and telecommunications, a member of the Board of Directors of Northern Trust Corporation,[5] and a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council,[6] where she helped establish the first Midwestern office for a national environmental NGO.

Crown served for 26 years as Chairman of the Arie and Ida Crown Memorial (now called Crown Family Philanthropies), her family's foundation that is focused on urban education, human services, healthcare, cultural arts and the Middle East.[7]

She once co-chaired CARE’s national conference[8] on global poverty in Washington, D.C., where legislation on food programs, child marriage, and global warming was introduced in the U.S. House and Senate.

Previously, she built the business plan of the Covenant Foundation, the leading North American program supporting and recognizing leaders in Jewish education. Crown served for a dozen years on the Yale Corporation and is now a Co-Chair of the Yale Tomorrow Campaign.

At the request of Steven Spielberg, she served for eight years as the chair of Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation and USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, the largest video archive in the world containing the testimony of survivors, rescuers, perpetrators and witnesses of the Holocaust. She has been involved with the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, Chicago's Navy Pier, the Aspen Community Foundation in Aspen, Colorado[9] and is certified as a hospice aid.

Honors and awards

She has received several awards for her community work, including the Deborah Award from the American Jewish Congress, the William McCormick Blair Distinguished Service Award from the Yale Club of Chicago, and the Civic Leadership Award from the American Jewish Committee.[10]

Personal life

Crown and her husband William Charles Kunkler III live in Chicago, Illinois.[11] They have two children.

Notes

  1. ↑ "ITW Investor Relations". ITW. Retrieved 2010-10-12.
  2. ↑ "Leadership, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL". Rush.edu. Retrieved 2010-10-12.
  3. ↑ Sullivan, Paul (2016-02-05). "A Philanthropist Drills Down to Discover Why Programs Work". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
  4. ↑ "Susan M. Crown - Google Profile". Google.com. Retrieved 2009-12-23.
  5. ↑ "Board of Directors". Northern Trust. Retrieved 2009-12-23.
  6. ↑ "NRDC: Board of Trustees". NRDC. Retrieved 2009-12-23.
  7. ↑ "AICM - About Us - History". AICM. Retrieved 2009-12-23.
  8. ↑ "CARE National Conference". CARE. Retrieved 2009-12-23.
  9. ↑ "Susan Crown". Aspen Community Foundation. Retrieved 2009-12-23.
  10. ↑ "Senior Mentors". The Aspen Institute. Retrieved 2009-12-23.
  11. ↑ "Susan M. Crown - Google Profile". Google.com. Retrieved 2009-12-23.
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