The KDC TeamWe 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 |
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Peggy Fogarty
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Peggy Fogarty, M.S., Executive Director of KDC is the board/organization liaison. She oversees KDC’s funding plan, finances, operations, systems, projects, clients, and our team. Employed by KDC since 2005, she has served as the ED since 2014. Her experience includes over 19 years of program development and administration, 15 years teaching in adult education, and 7 years as a produce farmer. Her focus has been on increasing KDC’s impact and developing systems to measure and report on the success of KDC’s clients. She has been instrumental in expanding the reach of the organization regionally and in the diversity of the projects KDC engages in.
Peggy’s entrepreneurial spirit, vision and ability to leverage community partners are key ingredients to KDC and her client’s success in import phases of development and expansion. Her leadership skills have contributed to the re-establishment of our local food system. A resource to business owners, she brings her skills of developing social infrastructure, including board development, strategic planning and the writing of internal policy, bylaws and marketing agreements. Peggy has worked as an Extension Educator with Penn State in Agricultural Economic Development and as the Program Coordinator. Ms. Fogarty received her MS from the University of Arizona in Family and Consumer Sciences and a BA from Rutgers University in Anthropology and Urban Studies. 
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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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Kurtis Groff
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Kurtis Groff, CPA, is a Partner at Simon Lever LLC, one of South Central Pennsylvania’s premier public accounting and consulting firms. He has more than 16 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 president of the Farm & Home Center of Lancaster County and a member of the Lancaster County Ag Council..
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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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