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The KDC Team

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.

KDC also 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

Peggy Fogarty

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:

Feasibility and Business Planning, creating and analyzing financial pro-formas including multi-year revenue modeling, cash flow, balance sheets, and income statement
Market Research, focus groups, surveys, distribution and content management logistics
Organizational Development policy and bi-law development, strategic planning, and board development

Peggy has worked as an Extension Educator with Penn State in Agricultural Economic Development and as the Program Coordinator for the Farm Food Safety Program. Ms. Fogarty is a graduate of University of Arizona where she received her Master’s Degree in Family and Consumer Sciences and Rutgers University where she received her Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology and Urban Studies.

Stephen McDow

Stephen R. McDow II, Director of Membership. (Stay tuned to as we roll out KDC's new membership program!)

McDow brings to the position over eight years of outreach and marketing experience. He is a cooperator, has a servant’s heart and has dedicated his life to bringing together rural and urban America for the purposes of achieving an inclusive economy. Previously, McDow managed membership and stakeholder relations for National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA CLUSA). During his tenure, he turned around a 5-year decline in membership and recruited 20 times the amount of members year-over-year - The largest recruitment over a 5-year period. McDow and his senior leadership helped set a foundation for growth for years to come.

Prior to NCBA CLUSA, he handled membership outreach and retention for the Montgomery County Medical Society (MCMS) and MedChi, The Maryland State Medical Society, with a primary focus on the development and execution of strategic and tactical engagement plans.

Before joining MCMS and MedChi, McDow worked on the Ward 4 City Council campaign of Dr. Edwin Powell in Washington, D.C., offering critical assistance to Powell in the development and execution of his community engagement strategy in order to promote his legislative agenda. Additionally, McDow was a key asset in the development and promotion of the campaign’s character development ballot initiative.
While serving as a committee board member at Open Table – Massachusetts, McDow led strategies that modernized the look and feel of the organization, and implemented a social media and outreach plan that continues to make a lasting impact.

Anthony Adonizio, Esq.

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.

Lori Burge

Lori brings with her two decades of co-op business and community organizing experience. She has completed both the Cooperation Works! Cooperative Business Development Training Program and the Democracy At Work Network Peer Advisor Training Program. In addition to her consulting career, she has provided dynamic, visionary, and steadfast leadership in key positions including serving as the General Manager of New Orleans Food Co-op in Louisiana for over five years, and working as the Development Manager of People’s Food Co-op in Portland, Oregon for over seven years.

Her professional emphasis includes co-op education, start-up/expansion, strategic planning, financial feasibility/ budgeting, supply feasibility, capital campaigns and fundraising, community outreach and ownership growth, human resources and staff development, governance, democratic group process, management support, alternative management models, operational systems analysis, as well as diversity and social-justice initiatives.

In addition to her work with Keystone Development Center, she has provided training, resources, and consultation to consumer, worker, producer, shared-services, and hybrid co-op sectors through her work with the Democracy at Work Network, the Northwest Co-op Development Center, People’s Food Co-op, and as a freelance consultant. She was a contributor to Cooperative Grocers’ How to Start a Food Co-op Manual (2010), was a co-founder of both the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives and the Democracy at Work Network, led an ongoing Co-op 101 series in Portland, and has presented as a panelist at numerous conferences and events.

Lori resides in Philadelphia with her partner (another co-op enthusiast), her young daughter (a future cooperator who loves math and spelling), two three legged cats, and her dog (one of eighteen puppies rescued after Hurricane Isaac).

Jen Christopher

Jen Christopher is KDC's IT consultant. She has seven years of experience in the IT industry, with a background in systems integration, software deployment, and technology based business solutions. She has worked with several Pennsylvania based cooperative businesses, including Weavers Way, CreekSide, Swarthmore and Mariposa. Her specialties include point of sale systems, web design, data reporting and analysis, employee training, technical documentation, and inventory management.

Prior to working with KDC, Jen was Director of IT at CreekSide Food Co-op. During that time she also provided point of sale system and general IT support to Swarthmore Co-op. She briefly worked for an IT company in New Orleans before moving back to Pennsylvania to work as an independent consultant

Jim Johnson

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

Kurtis Groff

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

Kaitlyn Moyer

Kaitlyn Moyer, recent graduate of Millersville University where she majored in International Business with a minor in marketing, is KDC's Administrator She is very eager to learn the business culture of cooperative development. A typical work day for Kaitlyn includes talking to clients and consultants, managing KDC's social media presence, handling financial documents, creating invoices and essentially being the face of KDC. Any questions or concerns are generally filtered through Kaitlyn.

In her spare time Kaitlyn enjoys traveling around the world, hanging out with her friends, attending bikram yoga classes and spending time with her two Bichons, Sofia and Daisy. She plans to go back for a graduate degree in business administration (MBA) in the fall of 2019.

Camila Pineiro

Camila Piñeiro has been a consultant on the social/solidarity economy for more than 10 years. She started her consultancy work at the Center for the Study of the Cuban Economy at the University of Havana, working with enterprises in the state, private and cooperative sectors. She helped form three start-up cooperatives and has provided consultancy services to cooperatives in food services, transportation, textile production, light industry and agriculture. These services included designing policies and procedures, governance, identifying and bringing in new stakeholders, strategic planning, process improvement, feasibility studies, training, cooperative education and connecting them to other cooperatives and experts.

She has researched and written about economic democracy and alternative economic institutions almost two decades. Her work has focused on worker cooperatives and public policies towards the enterprise sector. Among many other publications, she is author of an introductory guide to cooperativism (Guía Introductoria sobre Cooperativismo para Cuba, Ed. Caminos, 2015) and the edited volume Cooperatives and Socialism: A View from Cuba (Palgrave, 2012).

Camila has a M.A. in Latin American Studies with an emphasis on sustainable development from the University of California at Berkeley (2006). In 2011, she earned a M.B.A from the University of Havana. In 2018, she finished a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Havana, with a dissertation on the social and economic performance of new non-agricultural cooperatives.

KDC Board of Directors

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.