Peter
Manzo
Consultant,
Attorney at Law
854
Flores De Oro
South
Pasadena, CA 91030
323-309-8522
213-501-1010
(pager)
petermanzo@sbcglobal.net
Consultant, Attorney at Law
Manzo, Inc.
2006
Provide management consulting and corporate, business,
real property and tax law representation to charitable, private and public
sector clients.
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Executive Director & General
Counsel
Center for Nonprofit Management, Los
Angeles
1997-2005
Directed
the development, programs and operations of a nonprofit firm providing
management training, consulting and information services to a broad spectrum
of nonprofits. Duties included
fundraising, setting strategic direction, hiring and supervising management
team, developing and supporting the Board of Directors, handling or
supervising corporate governance, contract, personnel, tax and other legal
matters for the corporation, as well as counseling the corporation’s
nonprofit clients on legal matters. Highlights
include:
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Grew the organization over 300%, from a staff of six
and a budget of $500,000 in 1997 to a staff of 19 and annual budget of $2
million
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Raised over $6 million in grants and contract funds
and, through concurrent growth in fees for service, maintained earned revenue
as 60% share of total revenue
§
Led network of 14 management assistance
organizations in fulfilling $1.75 million contract with foundation to provide
capacity building assistance to over 250 grantees statewide
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Expanded Center’s programs and services,
including:
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Organizational development consulting program
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Knowledge and Information Services program,
including a Nonprofit Resource Library staffed by expert information services
professionals
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NPower
Los Angeles program providing technology training and
consulting services
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HealthyCity.org,
a Web resource for mapping and analyzing the availability of community
resources in Los Angeles County
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Arts Loan Fund providing short-term debt financing
for nonprofit arts organizations
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Directing Attorney, Community Development Programs
Public Counsel
, Los Angeles
1993-1997
Directed
legal representation of nonprofit organizations in corporate, real property,
tax and other transactional matters for the largest pro bono public interest law firm in the country.
Clients included community development organizations and broad range of
other nonprofit public benefit organizations, nonprofit affordable housing
developers, associations of tenants seeking to purchase their HUD-subsidized
housing, and low income micro-business entrepreneurs sponsored by community
development organizations.
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Attorney
Tuttle & Taylor, Los Angeles
1992-1993
Experience included general real property
and corporate transactions, as well as real property-related litigation.
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Attorney
Riordan & McKinzie, Los Angeles
1990-1992
Experience included real property
transactions, affordable housing tax credit syndications, leveraged
acquisitions and real property-related litigation.
Admitted to Bar in California (1990) and District of
Columbia (1993)
Boalt
Hall School of Law, University
of California, Berkeley
J.D., 1990
London
School of Economics, London, England
M.Sc., 1987
University of Notre Dame, Notre
Dame, IN
B.A., 1985
Internal Revenue Service
– Exempt Organizations Liaison Committee, West Coast
Member, California Bar
Association
Member, Los Angeles County
Bar Association
PacAdvantage,
Director
2002-Present
Member of
the Board of a nonprofit health insurance purchasing alliance whose mission is
to expand access to affordable, quality health care by enabling small
employers throughout California to provide excellent, affordable health
coverage to their employees.
National
Committee for Responsive Philanthropy,
Director
2003-Present
Member of
the Board and Chair of Policy Committee for organization advocating for
improved public accountability, accessibility and responsiveness on the part
of foundations, corporate grantmakers, individual donors and workplace giving
programs.
United
Friends of the Children, Director
1997-Present
Member of the Board of charitable organization that
provides transitional living assistance and job training to emancipated foster
youth in Los Angeles County.
University
of Southern California, Adjunct
Professor
2002-Present
Teach four-credit graduate course in nonprofit management
and leadership to master’s candidates in the School of Planning and Policy
Development. Member of Advisory
Board for the Master in Public Administration program.
UCLA
School of Public Affairs, Senior
Research Fellow
2002-Present
Lead and advise on research projects and program
development at the Center for Civil Society, an institute devoted to studying
and promoting increased effectiveness of nonprofit, public and private
sectors.
PUBLICATIONS
AND SPEECHES
Moving
Beyond Reproach, Stanford Social
Innovation Review (Fall 2005).
Southern California’s
Nonprofit Sector,
Kathleen Costello & Peter Manzo, Gianneschi Center for Nonprofit Research,
California State University, Fullerton and Center for Nonprofit Management
(2005).
The
Real Nonprofit Salary Scandal,
Stanford Social Innovation Review
(Winter 2005).
Not
Much to Cheer About: California Passes Ineffective Accountability Bill,
Responsive Philanthropy, National
Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (Fall 2004).
The
Meaning and Motives of Philanthropy: Responding to the Needs of a Diverse
Society,
Keynote Address, ARNOVA (Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations
and Voluntary Action) Annual Conference (November 2004).
“Gender Compensation Disparity in Executives:
Examining California Nonprofits,” Peter Manzo & Michael (Ke) Ye,
presented at ARNOVA Annual Conference (November 2004).
“Coding California: Results of an NTEE-CC Verification
Project,” Kathleen Costello, Peter Manzo & Kalieh Honish, presented at
ARNOVA Annual Conference (November 2004).
“Just In Time Information: Defining and Assessing
Knowledge & Information Services for Nonprofits,” Marcia Schmitz,
Monique Leahey Sugimoto & Peter Manzo, presented at ARNOVA Annual
Conference (November 2004).
“Barriers to Information Technology Use in the
Nonprofit Sector,” Peter Manzo & Bill Pitkin, presented at Symposium on
Information Technology Adoption in the Nonprofit Sector, Institute on
Nonprofit Organization Management, University of San Francisco (October 2004;
publication forthcoming 2006).
Power
and Program: Building Capable Nonprofits,
UCLA School of Public Affairs, Senior Fellow Address (January 2003).
“The IT Revolution and Nonprofits in Los
Angeles,” Peter Manzo & Bill Pitkin, UCLA Advanced Policy Institute and
Center for Nonprofit Management (2002); presented at ARNOVA Annual Conference
(2002).
Privatizing
Better: Representing Nonprofit
Service Providers Contracting with Government, Clearinghouse Review Journal
of Poverty Law and Policy (January-February 2002).
The
State of the Nonprofit Sector in California,
Keynote Address, Annual Conference of the California CPA Society (2001).
LIHPRHA:
A Great Opportunity for Community Control,
David Etezadi & Peter Manzo, 4 ABA
Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law, nos. 1
& 2 (Fall/Winter 1995).
Resale
Restrictions and Leverage Controls, Michael Keeley & Peter Manzo, 1 ABA
Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law, no. 1
(Spring 1992).
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