President, JBJ Soul Foundation

Leo Carlin is currently the principal of three independent Insurance Agencies with five locations throughout Southeastern Pennsylvania. The Company has over 30 employees specializing in personal, business, life and health insurance.

Carlin is responsible for business development and sales with 24 years of experience driving bottom line performance in challenging markets using comprehensive operating strategies. His other responsibilities also include maintaining/increasing volume, revenues, profits, corporate goals, risk management, growth strategies, long-term sustainability, new sales forces, organizational expansion, recruiting, training, and cost reduction.

In his 24 years with T.W. Cooper Insurance, Carlin, along with his two partners, has grown the company from one office with $2,000,000 in annual premium to five offices with premium volume of over $25,000,0000.

Carlin has been advocate for the less fortunate in our country for over 25 years. His passion and advocacy for the homeless and the hungry is endless as he believes that we can end poverty and homelessness across all generations by providing the right opportunities and tools that empower and inspire people to take that first step towards independence.

Carlin is the former Chairman of the Board of Trustees at The Covenant House PA in Philadelphia and is currently the President of the Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation, which establishes programs and partnerships that aim to break the cycle of poverty and homelessness through innovative community efforts. Carlin also chairs the Children and Youth Services of Delaware County Citizens Advisory Committee as well as being a former Trustee on the Board of The Country Day School of The Sacred Heart and St. Joseph’s Preparatory School in Philadelphia.

A graduate of The College of the Holy Cross with a degree in Economics, Carlin currently resides in Drexel Hill, PA with his beautiful wife, Suzanne, and their four beautiful children: Karleigh, Leo III, Keenan and Margo.

Vice President, JBJ Soul Foundation

Mimi Box was a charter member of the Board of Directors of the Soul Foundation. Her relationship with other members of the Soul Foundation’s Board began through her position with the Philadelphia Soul. Mimi was responsible for overseeing all business and financial aspects of the Arena Football team. After achieving her goal of establishing the overall financial direction of the team to ensure stability for the AFL in the Philadelphia market, she worked with ownership to select her successor in that position.

Prior to her involvement with the Soul, Mimi spent sixteen seasons in the front office of the Philadelphia Eagles. She first joined the Eagles in 1983 and advanced through numerous positions with added responsibilities ending her NFL career as Senior Vice President/CFO in March of 1999.  Mimi was one of the few financial officers in the NFL to have served under three ownerships.

Mimi served as treasurer of The Eagles Charitable Foundation, Inc. (Eagles Youth Partnership), the Eagles’ highly acclaimed non-profit, charitable wing from its inception in 1995 through 2009.  Mimi also served for many years on the board of The Corporate Alliance for Drug Education (“CADE”), a not-for-profit corporation reaching out to young children while still in elementary school helping them to build the skills needed to make decisions to resist drug use.

Prior to joining the Eagles, Mimi worked for the Internal Revenue Service as a special agent in the Criminal Investigation Division. During this time she was selected for the position of Federal Women’s Program Coordinator, an Equal Employment Opportunity advisory position. During the next three years, she served in two managerial roles in the IRS Mid-Atlantic Regional Office and the Wilmington District Office.

Mimi lives with her husband, Bob, in the West Chester, PA and has two children, Lauren and Dan.

Treasurer, JBJ Soul Foundation

Paul Korzilius is a widely respected and successful senior Entertainment and Sports executive with over 30 years in the business and has been responsible for the success of some of the biggest selling albums and tours in music history. He has served as General Manager for the AFL’s Philadelphia Soul and consultant to the AFL.

Involvement in the community has been a long time passion for Paul that has evolved into his current position as Treasurer of the foundation.

Paul is a graduate of Northwestern University with a degree in Education and serves on the boards of high tech companies and not for profit organizations.

Ron Jaworski

Board Member, Vice President

One of the most prolific names in Philadelphia sports history, Ron Jaworski is the Arena Football team Philadelphia Soul’s team president. Jaworski works directly with head coach Bret Munsey on football operations and assists the organization on all strategic marketing opportunities.

One of only two quarterbacks to lead the Philadelphia Eagles to a Super Bowl berth (Donovan McNabb), Jaworski has enjoyed as much success off the field as he has on the field.

In 1991, Ron Jaworski Management, Inc. was founded to oversee the day-to-day operations of Jaworski’s business ventures. Currently four different entities fall under the umbrella of RJM ownership: Valleybrook Golf Club, The Chateau Resort, Edgewood in the Pines and The Showcase Sports Apparel Store. As well as being an ownership partner, RJM manages the daily operations of The Showcase Store, Valleybrook Golf Club and Edgewood in the Pines.

As Board Member of the Philadelphia Soul Charitable Foundation, Ron provides expertise garnered from managing several local nonprofit organizations. Ron is responsible for overseeing the business of the oldest football club in America – the Maxwell Football Club of Philadelphia – as well as The Ron Jaworski Annual Celebrity Golf Challenge and the Jaws Youth Fund Fall Golf Classic.

Aside from his business ventures, Jaworski is a regular on ESPN, NFL Films and Eagles Television Network (Philadelphia) and has become one of the most distinguished NFL analysts on television. He gives fans a weekly, in-depth insider’s view of the NFL through “EA Sports NFL Matchup,” along with Sal Paolantonio and former NFL player Merrill Hoge. Every Sunday and Monday, Jaworski assists on “NFL Sunday Countdown” and “NFL Monday Night Countdown” with his team-by-team analysis.

A second-round pick of the Los Angeles Rams in 1973, the rights to Jaworski were traded to the Philadelphia Eagles in 1977. Over the course of his 10-year career with the Eagles, Jaworski started 116 straight NFL games – a record for most consecutive starts until Brett Farve broke it in 1999. He passed for nearly 27,000 yards, including 175 touchdowns and is the all-time Eagles leader in several passing categories, including career touchdowns and career passing yardage.

Born and raised in Lackawanna, NY, Jaworski married his high-school sweetheart, Liz. The couple resides in Voorhees, NJ and have three children Joleen, Jessica and BJ.

Board Member, JBJ Soul Foundation
Executive Director and President, Project HOME

Sister Mary Scullion has been involved in service work and advocacy for homeless and mentally ill persons since 1978. She was a co-founder, in 1985, of Woman of Hope, which provides permanent residential and support services for homeless, mentally ill women. In 1988, she founded the first Outreach Coordination Center in the nation, an innovative program coordinating private and public agencies doing outreach to chronically homeless persons living on the street.

In 1989, Sister Mary and Joan Dawson McConnon co-founded Project HOME, a nationally recognized organization that provides supportive housing, employment, education and health care to enable chronically homeless and low-income persons to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty. Under their leadership, Project HOME has grown from an emergency winter shelter to over 700 units of housing, including JBJ Soul Homes which provides supportive housing for homeless youth, and three businesses that provide employment to formerly homeless persons.  Project HOME also prevents homelessness in a low-income neighborhood in North Philadelphia.  This initiative includes economic development, homeownership for the working poor, and the Honickman Learning Center and Comcast Technology Labs – a 38,000 square foot, state-of-the-art technology center that offers comprehensive educational and occupational programming.

In 2015 Project HOME opened the Stephen Klein Wellness Center.  The Stephen Klein Wellness Center is a model for integrated health care including primary care, behavioral health, dental, a YMCA, pharmacy and wellness services.  It serves those that are homeless and is located in the second poorest zip code in Philadelphia.

Sister Mary is also a powerful voice on political issues affecting homelessness and mentally ill persons. Her advocacy efforts resulted in the right of homeless persons to vote as well as a landmark federal court decision that affects the fair housing rights of persons with disabilities.

Sister Mary has received numerous honorary doctorates for her leadership in the City of Philadelphia. She was named 2011 Citizen of the Year by the Philadelphia Inquirer and selected by Time Magazine as one of the “World’s Most Influential People in 2009”. In addition, Sister Mary and Joan Dawson McConnon received the Laetare Medal from the University of Notre Dame in 2011.  She was awarded the Eisenhower Fellowship in 2002 as well as the Distinguished Alumnus Eisenhower Award in 2010.

Sister Mary serves on the Board of Trustees of St. Joseph’s University; the Board of the Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation and Chaired the Hunger and Homelessness Committee for Pope Francis’s visit to Philadelphia in 2015.