Howard A. Siegel
Assistant Vice President

Howard Siegel is a specialist in major gifts fund raising and in particular, planning, organizing and directing capital campaigns. As an assistant vice president for over 14 years with Ghiorsi & Sorrenti, Inc., he has been involved with multiple campaign assignments, which have raised unprecedented amounts for the firm’s clients. These clients have principally included hospitals and integrated healthcare systems along with schools, social service organizations, associations and nursing homes.

Howard recently completed a major campaign to raise $30 million from private sources toward a campus-wide $350 million investment at Kean University in Union, NJ. Under Howard’s direction, this effort secured some of the largest gifts ever received by the University and brought a new level of awareness of the organization’s ongoing needs. Howard also directed a campaign for the Saint Clare’s Health System. Raising sights to unprecedented levels, this highly successful campaign surpassed its Phase One goal of $30 million. In addition, Howard directed the campaign for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of New Jersey. This effort sought support for multiple purposes including a new home for the Foundation – affectionately called A Wishing Place – expanded endowment, technology upgrades and enhanced volunteer training programs. With over $6 million in commitments, including a $2 million lead gift to name the facility combined with an outright gift of land, this campaign achieved unparalleled success.

Howard’s extensive campaign experience with the firm includes directing the Liberty HealthCare System’s campaign supporting the construction of a brand new Jersey City Medical Center Campus. For an organization that had never before raised more than $1 million annually, this campaign exceeded its phase one goal raising over $11 million in commitments, spearheaded by a $3.5 million gift from a donor who named the new building. Howard also led GSI’s efforts with this campaign in securing a $650,000 Kresge Challenge Grant. In addition, Howard directed a $20 million campaign effort at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville, New Jersey. This campaign forever changed the culture of philanthropy at the Medical Center having secured three seven-figure commitments and over 30 six-figure commitments for this suburban community hospital’s expansion needs. With 110% of the goal secured, this effort at Somerset Medical Center nearly tripled the results of any previous capital campaign.

With GSI, Howard’s additional accomplishments include directing a $14 million campaign in Waterbury, Connecticut. This unique joint venture between two competing hospitals to establish a freestanding, state-of-the-art cancer center attained extraordinary success, including substantial seven and six figure commitments. Howard was also involved with the direction of the leadership gift phase for the Saint Barnabas Health Care System’s $100 million capital campaign; directed an $11 million effort at Putnam Hospital in Carmel, New York; a $3.5 million campaign at Chilton Memorial in Pompton Plains, New Jersey; and a $3 million campaign at Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen, New Jersey.
Additional clients with which Howard Siegel has worked as an executive with GSI include: Capital Heath Foundation, Trenton, New Jersey; Hunterdon Medical Center Foundation, Flemington, NJ; Shore Memorial Health Foundation, Somers Point, NJ; Kean University Foundation, Union, New Jersey; Anderson School, Staatsburg, NY; Cerebral Palsy of North Jersey, Livingston, New Jersey; Freedom House, Glen Gardner, New Jersey; the Bergen County Regional Blood Center, Paramus, New Jersey; Mercy Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Providence Rest Nursing Home, Bronx, New York; the Saint Elizabeth Community nursing home system in Providence, Rhode Island; the New Jersey Hospital Association’s Political Action Committee, Princeton, New Jersey; St. John’s Riverside Hospital, Yonkers, New York; Saint Agnes Hospital and the Our Lady of Mercy Healthcare System, White Plains, New York; School of the Holy Child, Rye, New York; and Immaculate Conception Parish and Schools, Somerville, New Jersey. With these clients, Howard’s responsibilities spanned conducting campaign planning and organizational studies; assessments of fund raising potential; foundation, corporate and individual prospect research; case statement development; production of operative materials; volunteer organization and training; and major gifts solicitation.

Prior to joining Ghiorsi & Sorrenti, Inc., Howard served as Development Director at the New York State Society of CPAs in New York City. At the CPA Society, Howard organized and directed the development program for the nation’s largest state accounting organization including direct mail appeals, a major gift solicitation program and long-range planning for fund raising, communications and planned gifts. Prior to his employment at the CPA Society, Howard served as Director of Development with the Zeta Beta Tau Foundation, the fund raising arm of a national collegiate social fraternity serving 125,000 alumni and headquartered in New York City. In addition to managing all fund raising activities for the Foundation, including the direction of the annual direct mail appeal and production of the alumni communications, Howard worked with counsel in planning and directing the kick-off of a $7 million national capital campaign.

Howard holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management and Consumer Studies from the University of Maryland in College Park. Howard and his family reside in Wayne, New Jersey.