OUR TEAM
Jeff Schwartz, President and founder, Kela Associates, Kula, HI/Bethesda, MD: Before starting Kela Associates, Jeff was a successful organizational innovator, management consultant, entrepreneur, marketer, business line manager, strategic planner, program officer, supervisor, mentor and coach.
For three years, he served as
Director, Nonprofit
Organizational Effectiveness, for Fannie Mae Foundation in Washington,
DC. For five years he has been founder and President, Social Venture
Capital Foundation. Jeff also served for 10 years as co-founder, President
and chief spokesman for a nonprofit child health education and advocacy
organization now known as the National Vaccine Information Center. Jeff was a
co-founder, member of the Board, and management committee of Jellinek,
Schwartz & Connolly, Inc., a multi-disciplinary environmental consulting
firm for over 20 years. He also served as Environmental counsel for the House of
Representatives' Energy and Commerce Committee and before that for worked for
the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Health, Education,
and Welfare. In each of these roles, Jeff contributed to or led organizational
achievements that excel. Click here for Jeff's
complete resume and here for the
Social Venture Capital Foundation web site.
Tony Colantoni, Principal, SGC
Consulting Group, Inc., Rolling Meadows, IL. The
SGC Consulting Group is a Chicago-based boutique firm that specializes in
helping businesses and
nonprofit organizations through the growth and change process.
Anthony Colantoni and Carole Veronesi, as principals, collaborate with their
client-partners to create custom designed experiential learning sessions that
then guide client-partners through strategic planning, team and individual
development, work flow analysis and redesign, and organizational change. In
order to accomplish this, they focus on helping groups, teams, and individuals
perform at higher levels of effectiveness and efficiency. For more than twenty
years, they have successfully employed their techniques in a variety of
settings, including manufacturing, technology, professional services, health
care, higher education, human services, and church ministries. Click here
for Tony's resume and here
for the SGC Consulting Group web site.
Carol Glazer, President, Carol Glazer
Consulting, NYC., NY: For last three
years before joining the Kela Associates network, Carol Glazer has been a
program development and management consultant to foundations, universities and
nonprofit organizations working to improve conditions in inner city communities
in the United States. 
Her foundation clients have included the Ford,
Rockefeller, Robert Wood Johnson, Fannie Mae, Garfield, and Goldman Sachs
Foundations. Additional clients have included Harvard University; the
Community Reinvestment Fund; and the Center for Alternative Sentencing and
Employment Services (CASES). She has consulted in substantive areas of housing,
workforce development, education, and youth development. Prior to 1999, Carol was the Vice President and
Chief Operating Officer at the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation. Prior to that
she worked for eleven years at the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC),
ending her tenure there as a Senior Vice President for National Programs. Carol
serves as a director for Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH), and as a
founding director of the Hydrocephalus Parents' Network of Greater New York. Click
here for Carol's complete resume.
District of Columbia, and with persons of color. He has
previously served on the Fannie Mae
Foundation's (FMF) Advisory Committee on
Organizational Effectiveness; provided meeting facilitation, coaching, and
business plan development consulting services to the DC
Initiatives team of FMF; as well as conducting several strategic and business
planning and organizational development consulting projects for FMF grantees and
other DC nonprofits. He is currently assisting the Annie E. Casey
Foundation in neighborhood resident leadership development in many of that
foundation's Making Connections cities. Bob has an extensive background in advising
nonprofits as well as profit making entities in board development, ED/Board
relations, human
relations, managerial and supervisory development, race relations, managerial
development and diversity training, conflict resolution, appreciative inquiry,
large scale systems change, group dynamics, and other aspects of organizational
development. Click here for Bob's more complete
resume.
Peter Manzo, Los Angeles, California: For
eight years before starting his own consulting firm to advise and serve
nonprofit organizations and foundations, Peter Manzo, Inc., Pete was Executive
Director and General Counsel of the Southern California Center for Nonprofit
Management. In that 
capacity he was responsible for
directing
the Center’s planning, development, programs and operations. He also
has served as an adjunct professor of nonprofit organizational development at
UCLA and USC and a member of the board of directors of the National Center for
Responsive Philanthropy and the National Affordable Housing Preservation
Associates.
Prior to coming to the Center for Nonprofit Management, Pete was the Directing Attorney of Community Development Programs for Public Counsel, where he represented nonprofit charitable organizations in a broad range of transactional legal matters and coordinated and monitored their representation by volunteer attorneys. Prior to joining Public Counsel, Pete practiced real estate and corporate law at the law firms of Riordan & McKinzie and Tuttle & Taylor. He is a graduate of Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He also received a Master’s degree in Political Sociology from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor’s degree in Government from the University of Notre Dame. Click here for Pete's more complete resume.
Ann Vanino, Moving
Forward, Southern California: Ann Vanino is a well-known
personal and professional coach, writer, and speaker and the founder of Moving
Forward Personal
and Professional Coaching. Moving Forward is dedicated to helping
clients 
create the life they want and helping business owners and executives
build successful, prosperous, and well-managed organizations.
Ann has coached clients through job-related issues since 1996. She
has
worked with hundreds of people, helping them empower themselves and their
organizations to achieve success. Her work touches countless others through
seminars, speaking engagements, publications, and teleclasses. Ann is the
author of Leadership on Trial: Lessons from The
Apprentice. Ann
is an active participant in The Los Angeles Chapter of The International Coach
Federation and in 2002, served as a member of its Founding Board of Directors
and Membership Chair. Click here for Ann's complete resume. Click here for the
Moving Forward web site.