Who We Are

Marie Battaglia

Founder and CEO

Marie Battaglia, President and Founder of Battaglia & Associates, has over 30 years of full-time experience securing funding for schools, non-profit youth and human service agencies, community-based education organizations, arts and cultural organizations, healthcare providers, and other agencies across New York State. Her commitment to services for youth was recognized by the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Northtowns, who named her to the agency’s Wall of Fame in 2018, and by Niagara Falls City School District, which presented her with the Golden Apple Award in 2005. Marie volunteers as a mentor to entrepreneurs and non-profit leaders through the University at Buffalo, Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership program.

Thomas M. Savini

Tom Savini received his Bachelor of Arts in History at Buffalo State College in 1988. He worked as a drug prevention specialist in Erie County from 1988-1992, and in Cattaraugus County from 1992-1999. He completed his Master of Arts in Liberal Studies at SUNY Empire State College in 1999, and became the Director of the Chancellor Robert R Livingston Masonic Library of Grand Lodge, NYC, NY in January 2000. Tom returned to Buffalo in August 2015 and joined Battaglia and Associates as a researcher and writer in October 2015, applying his 28 years of experience in the non-profit world to the mission of bringing great programs and services together with the resources dedicating to making them happen.