Steven Solomon

Steven is the Community Impact Officer at Howard Brown Health, where he manages the Volunteer Program, Patient Advisory Council and serves as the AIDS Run & Walk Team Captain.  Prior to this role, he was the Senior Individual Giving Officer and supported the capital campaign to raise $19 million for construction of the new and expanded Halsted clinic and Broadway Youth Center and managed the Vernita Gray Council for Philanthropy.  Howard Brown offers primary care, dental care and behavioral health services at 7 locations across the city including Broadway Youth Center, regardless of ability to pay.  He also served as the Manager of Individual Giving at Center on Halsted, the largest LGBTQ+ Center in the Midwest. 

During his 11-year tenure at The Rotary Foundation, Steven served as the Senior Annual Giving Officer, which included more than 76 trips to the western region of North America, where he worked with volunteers to raise money for the Foundation.  He was responsible for orchestrating Dr. Jane Goodall’s participation at Rotary’s 100th International Convention and serving as the primary contact for Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the Rotary World Peace Symposium in the UK.  He became an honorary member of the Rotary Club of San Francisco-Castro, CA which is Rotary’s first LGBTQ+ Rotary club and the Rotary Club of Buffalo Grove, IL which sponsored his Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship to the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. 

He earned a Master of Science in Nonprofit Management with a concentration in Fundraising Management from Spertus College in Chicago, a Certificate in Fund Raising Management through the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, and an Executive Scholar Certificate in Nonprofit Management with Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. 

Steven was awarded the Leppen Leadership Award from About Face Theatre, Association of Fundraising Professionals Chamberlain Scholarship, Disney’s Animal Kingdom Diversity Advancement Award for the Conservation Education, and a Fulbright-Hays Zulu Group Project Abroad in South Africa. 

In his free time, Steven volunteers with Tiny Hooves Sanctuary, The Saints, Chipride Volunteering, Gay for Good, and Old Town School of Folk Music.  Steven enjoys wandering around the planet and had some good adventures in Botswana, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, India, Nepal, Taiwan, Thailand, Belize, Brazil, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Iceland, Ireland and Scotland. 

Steven Solomon (he/him)
Community Impact Officer | Howard Brown Health
872.269.3422 | StevenS@howardbrown.org