The KDC TeamKDC has a unique team of professional consultants, all with many years of cooperative business experience. Our highly skilled experts are available to assist clients with all aspects of business development. We have centers of excellence in business planning, financial forecasting, and legal advising
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KDC Staff Members |
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We have a small, but experienced staff with over 50 combined years of experience, ranging from grassroots organizing to running cooperatives to non-profit administration to Fortune 500 consulting.
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Peggy Fogarty
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Peggy Fogarty, M.S. is the Executive Director of the Keystone Development Center. She is responsible for providing a broad range of economic, marketing, and organizational development services to groups and associations. Mrs. Fogarty has a deep background in cooperative development and was instrumental in the start-up of Lancaster Farm Fresh Cooperative, a high-profile success story. Peggy has over 18 years of program development and administration and 15 years teaching in adult education.
She has used her leadership skills to help re-establish our local food system. By focusing on the need to develop physical and social infrastructure, she has served as a resource for farmers, fisheries and agricultural businesses to develop and implement their innovations into financial benefit. She specializes in niche marketing, value added product development, farm business profitability, and food safety. Her strengths as a cooperative development practitioner include:
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KDC Consultants |
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KDC regularly contracts with individuals to provide specific assistance to our cooperative clients. Our consultants have a great depth of experience.
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Anthony Adonizio, Esq.
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Anthony Adonizio, Esq. has served as counsel to KDC, and has advised KDC clients on a broad scope of cooperative formation and other legal matters, for a number of years. He has 38 years of experience in cooperative, energy, corporate, tax and administrative law, as well as related project development, regulatory, acquisition, finance and legislative matters. He maintains a private legal practice in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, focusing on cooperative, utility, transactional, municipal and corporate law matters.
As part of his legal practice, Mr. Adonizio represents, advises and acts as counsel to a number of cooperatives, corporations, associations and municipal entities. In his energy law practice, he serves as counsel to electric, gas, telecommunications, broadband, renewable energy and fuel supply clients. Additionally, over the course of his career, he has advised and represented virtually all types of cooperative businesses on a broad scope of legal matters. He has served as special counsel in a variety of business acquisition matters, corporate formation and restructurings, and project and corporate financing matters for his clients. He is the author of all of Pennsylvania’s current laws relating to cooperative corporations and cooperative contracts. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Adonizio served as Vice President and General Counsel to the Pennsylvania Rural Electric Association and Allegheny Electric Cooperative, Inc. In that capacity, he was responsible for all aspects of the organization’s legal matters, directed the risk management, environmental, property and human resources functions of the organization and advised and represented all of the electric cooperative distribution systems in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He has served on the Advisory Committee of The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, a national publication for lawyers in corporate practice, and the Editorial Board of Competitive Utility, a nationwide utility trade publication. He has been a frequent guest speaker on cooperative, energy and corporate law subjects before various management and lawyer groups. He has served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Waynesburg University, and is active in various civic groups in the Harrisburg area. 
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Jim Johnson
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Jim Johnson has been in small business for over thirty-five years, and has spent over twenty of those years working with and for co-ops. He's a co-founder of the Democracy At Work Network (www.dawn.coop), the technical assistance service created by the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives, and currently serves on DAWN's Board of Governors. Jim also currently serves DAWN as a certified Peer Advisor, actively providing technical assistance to worker co-ops, start-ups, and conversions. Jim is a graduate of the CooperationWorks! Training for Cooperative Development Practitioners, and served several years in the CooperationWorks!
(www.cooperationworks.coop) leadership as Chair of CW's Networking Circle |
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Kurtis Groff
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Kurtis Groff, CPA, is a Partner at Simon Lever LLP, one of South Central Pennsylvania’s premier public accounting and consulting firms. He has more than 14 years of accounting and tax experience serving agri-business and cooperatives. He specializes in the unique accounting and tax rules for cooperatives, including patronage allocations and dividends, equity targets, domestic production deduction, 1099 reporting to patron members, and financing. Kurtis has considerable experience establishing budgets for cooperatives and offers guidance to board members on managing finances for success. His goal is to provide exceptional service, honest value and original thought in every client relationship and to maximize the success of those he partners with. He is a member of the AICPA, PICPA, Lancaster Chamber of Commerce and is a board member of the Farm & Home Foundation of Lancaster County
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KDC Board of Directors |
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KDC continues to be governed by a volunteer board of directors mostly comprised of professionals in rural development, economic-community development, and education. They are a hands-on board and regularly assist in KDC projects.
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