Board of Directors
All the members of the S.C.O.P.E. Board of Directors are volunteers.
There are no paid staff or executives. Many of the board members have traveled throughout Central America and the Developing World, including El Salvador. The operating costs of this charity are kept to a minimum such as the annual costs of a P.O. Box, website, and filing fees with the IRS, the respective State governments including Virginia and others, and with the Non-Profit Sector associations and watchdog organizations like www.GuideStar.org.
To date all legal and founding work has been done pro bono or been paid from the personal contributions of its board members. The goal is to care, guard, preserve and grow the principal funds of the S.C.O.P.E. Foundation and distribute the interest to the Santa Luisa School to keep it open and viable to serve the needs of the children of San Salvador.
Rev. Brendan G. Lally, S.J.
Founder of the S.C.O.P.E. Foundation
Investment Committee & Development Committee Member
RevBrendanGLallySJ@SCOPEFoundation.com
Fr. Lally, a Jesuit Priest for close to 30 years, graduated from the University of Scranton in 1970 and earned his MDiv and MPS from Weston School of Theology and Loyola University of Chicago respectively. He taught History and English and was Chaplain at Scranton Preparatory High School for 10 years. From 1986 to 2003 he was a Campus Minister at the University of Scranton & from 1997 through 2003 was Rector of the Jesuit Community in Scranton, PA, part of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus. Since 2003 he has been serving as a Spiritual Director at the Pontifical North American College in Rome.
Fr. Lally has led many pilgrimages to the Holy Land and founded service programs in El Salvador and Mexico. Specifically, he developed the Los Hermanos immersion experience in Mexico for the Scranton Preparatory School and the International Service Program in Mexico for the University of Scranton, which he led from 1987 to 2002. He also developed and directed the Bridges to El Salvador immersion experience to El Salvador designed for faculty, staff and alumni of the University of Scranton and Scranton Prep. Most of these programs continue today through both the University and Scranton Prep. In 2003 Fr. Lally brought the El Salvador immersion experience to the Pontifical North American College in Rome.
Matthew P. O'Rourke, M.A.
President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
MatthewORourke@SCOPEFoundation.com
Matt graduated from the University of Scranton as an undergraduate in 1992 with a B.S. in Political Science & History. He served as a light infantry Platoon Leader on active duty in the US Army and later as a Captain in the Intelligence Branch. After his time in the service he worked in Electronic Manufacturing in Operations Management for the BOSE and AMP Corporations for three years. He returned to the University of Scranton in 2000 to complete his graduate degree in History. This time around, Fr. Lally led him on pilgrimages to Salvador with Bridges to El Salvador in 2001 after the series of earthquakes devastated the country and later to Rome & Assisi in 2002.
Matt has worked in Professional Sales for the last six years while remaining involved with Bridges to El Salvador with his alma mater. He helped establish the SCOPE Foundation, Inc. as a public charity and 501c3 tax-exempt non-profit with the IRS. His shared vision with the Founding Officers of the Board of Directors is the goal of building a charitable foundation to keep the doors of the Santa Luisa School permanently open and to eventually build an endowment fund to sustain the operations of the school to forever serve the needs of educating its children.
K.C. Sabatino, M.D.
Vice President
KCSabatino@SCOPEFoundation.com
KC served as the Founding President of the SCOPE Foundation & has been instrumental in establishing SCOPE as a public charity & tax exempt non-profit. KC is both a graduate of Scranton Preparatory High School & the University of Scranton, both Jesuit institutions, in 1983 and 1987 respectively. In 1991, he graduated from Temple University's Medical School and completed his Residency there in 1995. He was selected for the University of Pittsburgh's Cardiology Fellowship which he graduated from in 1998. KC practices at Clearwater Cardiovascular & Interventional Consultants in Clearwater, Florida.
KC is married with three children. KC first became a veteran of Fr. Lally's pilgrimages to Mexico back in 1982 while a student at Scranton Prep. In 2001, KC traveled as a pilgrim again to Central America, this time to its poorest country, with the alumni program at the University of Scranton, Bridges to El Salvador.
Kelly A. Dougherty, M.A.
Treasurer & Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
KellyDougherty@SCOPEFoundation.com
Kelly is the Accounting Assistant for the Scranton Jesuit Community and teaches Theology at the University of Scranton. She is an alumnus of the University of Scranton's undergraduate and graduate programs where she earned her B.S. in Mathematics & minor in Computer Science and M.A. in Theology. A pilgrim to El Salvador with Bridges to El Salvador in 2001 and friend of the SCOPE Fund and Foundation for the last six years, Kelly continues the ministry of serving the poor of El Salvador through her support of Bridges to El Salvador at the University of Scranton and serving on the SCOPE Foundation's Board of Directors.
Kelly is married with three children & resides in Old Forge, PA. Kelly's husband is a Math Professor at the University of Scranton.
Meagan E. Costello, Esq.
Secretary & Chair of Development
MeaganCostello@SCOPEFoundation.com
Meagan currently is an Associate with the Goodwin Procter LLP firm, a Financial Restructuring Group. She has specialized in this area of law for the last four and half years. She attended St. John's Law School in NY when in 2002 she graduated Cum Laude & served as the Editor of the Catholic Lawyer, a publication of St. John's Law Review. She also served as a teaching assistant and research assistant for several professors while a law student. Meagan is also an alumnus of the University of Scranton's undergraduate and graduate programs. In 1999, she graduated magna cum laude with a BS in Political Science and a MA in History, Magna Cum Laude as well.
She has been on pilgrimages to the Shrines of Italy in 2005 & in the autumn of 2006 to Fatima, Compostella & Lourdes.
Mark B. Nixon, M.B.A.
Chief Audit Executive (CAE)
Audit Committee, Investment Chair & Development Committee
MarkNixon@SCOPEFoundation.com
He currently serves as Controller for a Proprietary Mutual Fund Product with Brown Brothers Harriman & Co in NY. He has worked for companies such as Deutsche Bank, Arthur Andersen, and Nixon Consulting throughout his career. He earned his MBA in Finance from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University in 1990 and his BS in Accounting from the University of Scranton in 1985. He is a past President of the University of Scranton's Alumni Society-NY Metro Chapter and a member of the University of Scranton President's NY Metropolitan Business Council. He and his wife live in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey with their two wonderful children.
Joseph P. Smith III, Esq.
Board Agent & Member of the Board
JosephSmith@SCOPEFoundation.com
Joe is a practicing attorney in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Formerly, he spent 30 years serving his nation as a Special Agent with the F.B.I. He first acquired his legal experience with non-profit start-ups over two decades ago when he began a charitable organization raising money for medical research and lobbying Congress on behalf of children with specific genetic conditions. Joe is an alumnus of Villanova University & the College of William and Mary Law School.
Joe is married to his wonderful wife Kathleen for over thirty years and has three great children, his youngest graduated from the University of Scranton in 2003. He also became a proud grandfather a few years ago.
Anthony Talerico, Jr. M.B.A., C.P.A.
Chief Accounting Officer (CAO)
Audit & Development Committees
AnthonyTalerico@SCOPEFoundation.com
Anthony is an alumnus of the University of Scranton. He earned his undergraduate degree in Accounting. He spent four and half years in public accounting where he worked in NYC for Price WaterHouse Coopers. He currently works for a private accounting firm in New Jersey. He brings to the SCOPE Foundation the needed internal public accounting expertise as an active CPA. This board component is recommended for the non-profit sector by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. His independent oversight of the Finance Committee and the financial transactions of the SCOPE Foundation ensure the compliance with sound & accepted accrual methods of public accounting and compliance with IRS & State requirements governing the non-profit sector and 501(c)(3) public charities. Additionally, internal audit and oversight of SCOPE's official books & preparation of the annual IRS Form 990 provide transparency to the public, our donors, to the state & federal government, and the non-profit world at large by utilizing tools and watchdog agencies such as www.GuideStar.org & www.BoardSource.org The SCOPE Foundation also formally certifies its annual financial statement and IRS Form 990 with an external CPA firm.
Rev. Matthew Buening
Board of Director
Development Committee Member
RevMatthewBuening@SCOPEFoundation.com
Fr. Matt was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Baltimore in 2003 and is currently the associate pastor of Immaculate Conception Church in Towson, MD. Fr. Matt attended James Madison University where he discovered his vocation and transfered to the University of Scranton. He graduated in 1998 with a B.A. in Philosophy. After studies at the University of Scranton, Fr. Matt was sent overseas to complete his training for the priesthood at the Pontifical North American College in Rome. In 2004, after receiving his Masters degree in Theology, Fr. Matt was awarded a special pontifical degree called a License in Fundamental Theology.
While studying in Rome, Fr. Matt was able to travel to many places in the world such as Zimbabwe and in 2004 he traveled as a pilgrim with a group of faculty and seminarians to El Salvador and visited the wonderful Santa Luisa Elementary School in San Salvador. The rest of the board is still amazed that while studying in Rome at the seminary, he took a class in Hebrew that was taught in Italian...there was a slight problem at the start of this particular semester...he didn't know Italian at the time...we believe he received an A in spite of this slight obstacle. Fr. Matt is exceedingly humble and gives all credit to the Holy Spirit for this accomplishment.
Patrick J. Morgan, M.G.A., M.S.Ed.
Board of Director
Web & Development Committees
PatrickMorgan@SCOPEFoundation.com
Patrick currently serves as Assistant Director, Communications & External Relations for the Business Services Division at the University of Pennsylvania. The Business Services Division is the major commercial enterprise arm of the University. Patrick graduated cum laude from the University of Scranton in 2001 and went on to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania's Fels Institute of Government & Graduate School of Education earning his Master of Government Administration & Master of Science in Education degrees. He is former Manager, Donor Relations for the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania and has done international volunteer work in Mexico and Ecuador.
Patrick also serves on the Board of Directors for Family Services, a nonprofit serving children, seniors, & families in Montgomery County, PA & Young America PAC, a bi-partisan political action committee for the Greater Philadelphia region.
Daniel Costello, Esq.
Board of Director
Development Committee
DanielCostello@SCOPEFoundation.com
Dan currently is the Director of Human Resources and Labor Counsel at the InterContinental The Barclay New York, a five star 700 room hotel located in Manhattan with more than 500 employees. Dan's legal career has focused in labor and employment law with several different firms in NY. In 1999, Dan earned his law degree from St. John's University in NY & his BA in 1994 from DePaul University in Chicago with a major in Political Science & a minor in Spanish. After college, Dan lived in Spain for a year teaching English as a foreign language for business executives, managers, & workers in Madrid.
After graduating high school in 1988, Dan spent a year in Cuautla, Mexico as an exchange student as part of the AFS International. He credits his year in Mexico for changing his life forever as he developed a special relationship with his host family which he maintains to this day. Dan is fluent in Spanish from his minor in college and two years spent in Mexico and Spain. Dan's talented wife Meagan also serves on SCOPE's Board of Directors.
William P. Howard
Board of Director
Web & Development Committees
WilliamHoward@SCOPEFoundation.com
Bill currently is the editor in chief of The Colorado Catholic Herald Colorado Catholic Herald Online for the Diocese of Colorado Springs, Colo. It's safe to say that being a writer is in Bill's blood. He has been a Catholic journalist and editor for 10 years and a professional journalist for 15 years. He won several Catholic Press Association writing and Web awards, as well as two prestigious Katie Awards (from the secular Dallas Press Club), while a writer and news editor for Texas Catholic from 1997-2005. Just nine months after redesigning and relaunching The Colorado Catholic Herald in September 2005, the paper won the Catholic Press Association's first place award for General Excellence among diocesan newspapers in the 17,000-40,000 circulation range (the highest honor it can win). During his years in Dallas, Bill was also a free-lance feature writer for the National Hockey League's Dallas Stars, Major League Baseball's Texas Rangers and the Mesquite Rodeo. Bill's journalism career began by editing two community weekly newspapers in New Jersey from 1992-94, followed by two years as a copy editor for College Sports magazine. Bill graduated from the University of Scranton in 1991 with BAs in English and Philosophy and went through the Special Jesuit Liberal Arts program. Not surprisingly, back then he was sports editor of the Aquinas, the student newspaper, a sportswriter and a night owl.
Bill has traveled extensively throughout the developing world as a journalist, including El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico and Africa. He covered the death of Pope John Paul II from Poland and Pope Benedict's election in Rome. He also was in Germany in September 2006 to cover Pope Benedict's return to his homeland of Bavaria. Bill first traveled as a pilgrim to Mexico with Fr. Lally during the summer of 1991 with the International Service Program. Bill brings to SCOPE photojournalist, graphics and web-editing skills as well as an invaluable knowledge of the Catholic and lay press communities.
Stuart Zion
Board of Director
Development Committee
StuartZion@SCOPEFoundation.com
Stuart graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Metropolitan State College of Denver with his BS in Business Management. He worked nights in manufacturing while putting himself through college. After high school, Stuart enlisted in the US Army in the light infantry and served on active duty for several years. He has traveled throughout Central America including Panama and Mexico. Stuart volunteers with the Big Brother/Big Sister program and with the Bread Line for the Poor at Holy Ghost RC Church in downtown Denver. Stuart shares a care and solidarity with the people of Latin America through the Church's preferenial option for the poor. Stuart brings a wealth of experience to SCOPE from his time in Latin American and his involvment with 501(c)(3) non-profits.
Professor Marie Karam
Board of Director
Director of Bridges to El Salvador
MarieKaram@SCOPEFoundation.com
Marie is a Spanish Professor and Director of the Language Learning Center at the University of Scranton. She is the recipient of many prestigious awards from the University of Scranton, including the highest award for teaching excellence and the Sursum Corda Award for outstanding contributions to the life and mission of the University.
She has followed in Fr. Lally's footsteps as the Director of Bridges to El Salvador and has traveled as a pilgrim and director of this program to Salvador many times over the last decade. In 2005, she founded the SEED (Scholarships to Establish Educational Development) program to help educate the rural village of Las Delicias, a town immersed in extreme poverty outside San Salvador of approximately 600 families. She has worked tirelessly supporting the University of Central America (UCA), the Jesuit University in San Salvador, supplying computer equipment, multimedia, and aid to advance high education. Additionally, she has led countless craft sales at the University of Scranton, raising money for school children and the poor with hand made crafts, rosaries, and painted crosses from Salvador and she is an active supporter of JustGarments.org and Jesuit.net promoting economic development and justice in El Salvador.
SCOPE's origins owe a debt of gratitude to Marie. She established the original SCOPE Fund at the University of Scranton in 2002 for the education of the poor of El Salvador to commemorate Fr. Lally's 25th anniversary as a Jesuit Priest and his service and commitment to the poor of Central America, especially El Salvador.
Marie is married and resides with her husband in the Electric City of Scranton. They have three grown children. Two of her children are alumni of another Jesuit University, Boston College, and the third a graduate of Brown University. Her husband is a retired principal of Scranton High School.
