Virtual Meeting with the Erie Community Foundation

Christina Marsh serves as Senior Vice President, Services, at Erie Insurance Group. In this role, she oversees ERIE’s Program Management Office as well as the Crisis Prevention and Management team.

Chris transitioned to her current position after serving as ERIE's Senior Vice President of Human Resources. She has been with the Erie Insurance Group since 1994 where she first joined as a corporate accountant. Prior to joining ERIE, Chris spent almost 6 years at Ernst & Young, where she earned her CPA and progressed to Manager of Audit for their Erie office.

Chris earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Mercyhurst University. She currently serves on the Finance Committee of Erie First Assembly of God and is a Steward team member for the ERIETogether initiative to reduce poverty in Erie county. She is a past President of the Erie Chapter of Institute of Management Accountants and former Treasurer of the Montessori Regional Charter School Board of Trustees. 

Chris is married to her husband, Robert, and they have 3 boys: RJ, Noah and Luke.

Michael L. Batchelor has been at the helm of The Erie Community Foundation since 1990 when he was selected as the first Executive Director. He was named President in 1995. Under his management, assets have increased from $20 million to over $180 million. This market value rates 55th among the nation’s 700 community foundations. Named endowment funds have grown from 53 to 610. Annual grantmaking has dramatically increased with nearly $8 million distributed in 2009.

Under Mike’s leadership, The Erie Community Foundation received national recognition for expanding access to opportunity. He founded the Nonprofit Partnership, a membership-based capacity building nonprofit. He also established regional affiliate foundations serving Corry, Union City, North East and Findley Lake.

He is a two-time president of Pennsylvania Association of Community Foundations and a national elected leader of the Council of Foundations. He also served on the National Governing Council. He consults for community foundations across the country and is a well-known instructor for the Center for Community Foundation Excellence in Washington, D.C. He earned both a Bachelor of Science (cum laude) in Journalism (1977) and a Master of Arts in Public Policy Analysis (1980) from Kent State University.

He began a career in higher education by serving as Kent State admissions counselor. He then served as Director of Annual Giving at Hiram College, Director of Planning and Development at Villa Maria College and Vice President of Institutional Advancement at Gannon University.