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“Sound finance and administration is the vehicle that carries an organization to the successful realization of its
mission. I have been very fortunate to have spent my entire career as a trusted mechanic, helping nonprofit leaders
make their visions a reality.”
Anthony Reese is Olive Grove’s Chief Finance Officer and Vice-President of the Financial Management Practice. This
position is the latest incarnation of a life spent building capacity in the nonprofit sector. Anthony is a graduate of UCLA,
and the Coro Foundation's Public Affairs Program in Los Angeles. He holds a Master's Degree from Harvard’s Kennedy
School of Government where he specialized in urban economic development. It was there that Anthony was first
introduced to the work of nonprofits, joining a group of friends from Harvard’s business and law schools to create City
Year, an urban youth corps that grew to international prominence and became a model for the national service
movement.
“As City Year’s first CFO I learned that building a strong administrative foundation makes all things possible.
Administration is not superfluous, it’s mission critical.”
Anthony’s deep interest in the sector drew him to New York City’s Robin Hood Foundation, where he served as Chief
Financial Officer and Director of Management Assistance. There he helped channel financial resources, technical
assistance and other services to community-based nonprofits. The satisfying experience of helping community
entrepreneurs build institutions under their ideas led him to serve in a variety of management service organizations from
the Center for Nonprofit Management in Los Angeles, to Oakland’s National Community Development Institute. Love for
this type of service also led him to create his own nonprofit consulting firm, Mananson Consulting, in 1992.
“Serving as both a consultant and a full-time staff person has afforded me the opportunity to work in a variety of
programmatic and organizational contexts, as well as provided a chance to work in every position in the finance
function from bookkeeper to CFO. The experience has been wonderfully enriching, and enables me to offer our clients
unique perspective and empathy.”
As the former Associate Director of the Greenlining Institute, Anthony managed the finance function while creating
corporate/community partnerships to implement a number of community-based economic development and technology
projects.
Mr. Reese served as Associate Director to the National Community Development Institute (NCDI), an intermediary
created to provide culturally-based capacity building services to communities of color. He helped build NCDI’s fiscal and
administrative systems, and provided facilitation, training, coaching and implementation support to community boards
and neighborhood collaboratives engaged in comprehensive community change initiatives.
Most recently Anthony served as the Principal Financial Analyst of the California chapter of The Nature Conservancy,
where he was responsible for developing and monitoring a $30 million annual budget, implementing automated financial
systems, and providing advanced financial modeling and analytics to inform strategy at the chapter board and executive
staff level.
“My goal is for finance and administration functions to be: integral, not separate; understood, not feared; strategic, not
transactional; and, most of all, utilized and valued, not ignored. For organizational sustainability this goal is not just
desirable, it’s essential. And the great news is, it’s achievable!”
Contact information:
anthony.reese@olivegroveconsulting.com
(650) 264-7817
mission. I have been very fortunate to have spent my entire career as a trusted mechanic, helping nonprofit leaders
make their visions a reality.”
Anthony Reese is Olive Grove’s Chief Finance Officer and Vice-President of the Financial Management Practice. This
position is the latest incarnation of a life spent building capacity in the nonprofit sector. Anthony is a graduate of UCLA,
and the Coro Foundation's Public Affairs Program in Los Angeles. He holds a Master's Degree from Harvard’s Kennedy
School of Government where he specialized in urban economic development. It was there that Anthony was first
introduced to the work of nonprofits, joining a group of friends from Harvard’s business and law schools to create City
Year, an urban youth corps that grew to international prominence and became a model for the national service
movement.
“As City Year’s first CFO I learned that building a strong administrative foundation makes all things possible.
Administration is not superfluous, it’s mission critical.”
Anthony’s deep interest in the sector drew him to New York City’s Robin Hood Foundation, where he served as Chief
Financial Officer and Director of Management Assistance. There he helped channel financial resources, technical
assistance and other services to community-based nonprofits. The satisfying experience of helping community
entrepreneurs build institutions under their ideas led him to serve in a variety of management service organizations from
the Center for Nonprofit Management in Los Angeles, to Oakland’s National Community Development Institute. Love for
this type of service also led him to create his own nonprofit consulting firm, Mananson Consulting, in 1992.
“Serving as both a consultant and a full-time staff person has afforded me the opportunity to work in a variety of
programmatic and organizational contexts, as well as provided a chance to work in every position in the finance
function from bookkeeper to CFO. The experience has been wonderfully enriching, and enables me to offer our clients
unique perspective and empathy.”
As the former Associate Director of the Greenlining Institute, Anthony managed the finance function while creating
corporate/community partnerships to implement a number of community-based economic development and technology
projects.
Mr. Reese served as Associate Director to the National Community Development Institute (NCDI), an intermediary
created to provide culturally-based capacity building services to communities of color. He helped build NCDI’s fiscal and
administrative systems, and provided facilitation, training, coaching and implementation support to community boards
and neighborhood collaboratives engaged in comprehensive community change initiatives.
Most recently Anthony served as the Principal Financial Analyst of the California chapter of The Nature Conservancy,
where he was responsible for developing and monitoring a $30 million annual budget, implementing automated financial
systems, and providing advanced financial modeling and analytics to inform strategy at the chapter board and executive
staff level.
“My goal is for finance and administration functions to be: integral, not separate; understood, not feared; strategic, not
transactional; and, most of all, utilized and valued, not ignored. For organizational sustainability this goal is not just
desirable, it’s essential. And the great news is, it’s achievable!”
Contact information:
anthony.reese@olivegroveconsulting.com
(650) 264-7817
| Anthony Reese Vice President, Financial Management |
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