Margolis Healy & Associates

Jonathan M. Kassa
Vice President for Operations & Business Development

Before joining Margolis Healy as the Vice President for Operations & Business Development in 2011, Jonathan served as Executive Director of Security On Campus, Inc. (SOC) - the leading nonprofit voice in America for safer campus communities for students for over two decades – since 2007. Mr. Kassa has played a crucial role in the strategy, development, and delivery of a broad array of national policies, initiatives, and innovative community-based programs that serve education, justice, and social services sectors. Starting as a college intern in 1993 and rising to youngest Senior Supervisor at age 23, Jonathan soon became Director of Development, then a Senior Executive and Regional Director of Maryland and Delaware.  Kassa was integral in expanding the entrepreneurial Youth Services Agency from a single-county agency to a multi-state nonprofit organization serving tens of thousands of families and youth each year, helping to increase services-based revenue of less than one million dollars per year to 24 million dollars per year during his thirteen year tenure.  Jonathan has earned a reputation for facilitating effective public-private partnerships and cross-systems collaboration, especially between nonprofit networks, Federal, State, and Local systems.  Jonathan was the recipient of the 2004 Dare to Soar Award from the Cecil County, Maryland Local Management Board; honoring “dedication and vision” toward improving the lives of youth and families in the region. 

His experience includes various presentations at conferences nationally, inclusion in the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement subcommittee on campus law enforcement and public safety standards, and he is an often-quoted expert by the media, appearing in countless articles nationally and locally (USA Today, U.S. News, Wall Street Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer, Huffington Post, Chronicle of Higher Education, etc.); as well as national and regional television and radio interviews (NPR, CBS, Good Morning America, Fox News Channel, etc.).  While at SOC, Kassa helped to transform the organization and realign resources towards meeting the dynamic challenges and opportunities of a nonprofit organization in transition during economic crisis, while remaining in touch with the organization’s history and mission.  Kassa helped guide significant policy and legislative initiatives, in particular SOC’s stewardship of the comprehensive federal compliance law known as the Jeanne Clery Act and participation in the U.S. Department of Education’s 2008 Negotiated Rulemaking sessions.  By diversifying the donor base and developing funding streams with new mission-related services, expertise, tools, and increased federal and state support; he directed significant growth in education and outreach programs that have reached over 50,000 high school students, overseen multiple national training seminars each year, and revitalized essential victim advocacy and technical assistance services.

Mr. Kassa is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University (B.A., History) and has a Masters in Public Administration (Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society) from Villanova University.  Jonathan resides in the Philadelphia area with his wife and two young children.