Meet Our Team

We're based in Berkeley, California and serve clients throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, nationwide and internationally.

Anne Schonfield, Principal Consultant

Anne founded Schonfield Consulting in 2004. She specializes in strategic planning, program evaluation, applied research and grant making support. Anne loves working with a wide range of clients - from small nonprofits to large international foundations - to identify the organizational challenge they want to solve, and "get the job done." Prior to becoming a consultant, Anne worked for two decades in the nonprofit and public sectors, including International Development Exchange, Pesticide Action Network, Catholic Relief Services/ Zimbabwe, Congressman Gary Ackerman's office and others. Anne holds an MA from University of California, Berkeley (City and Regional Planning) and a BA from Dartmouth College. She lives in Berkeley, California and serves on the Board of Directors of the Berkeley YMCA and Bike East Bay. Anne loves biking, skiing, backpacking, reading fiction and spending time in California’s beautiful Sierra Mountains.

Contact Anne at anne@schonfieldconsulting.com

"Anne is the quintessential consultant — she listens well, asks good questions, is easy to work with, and a great thought partner. She is the person you want on your team if you want to get s**t done and not waste time. I will work with Anne anytime."

- Elvis Fraser, Former Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Ben Woo Poretzky
Senior Associate

Ben is a community organizer and strategist passionate about bringing impact-driven projects to life. He holds a BAS in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a co-founder of Kinhood, a men’s wellness organization committed to growing men’s capacity to receive and reciprocate care through events and community. Ben serves on the board of the Chochmat HaLev synagogue and is a member of the SF Jewish Federation Jews of Color Giving Circle. As a technology product manager and strategist at Intuit, Meta, and startups in the Bay Area, Ben worked in the for-profit sector for several years before focusing on socially-oriented work.

Zacha Belok
Associate Consultant

Zacha is a leadership coach and trainer who guides non-profit leaders nationwide through organizational development and coaching. His approach blends embodiment, mindfulness, and art therapy to help leaders cultivate authentic leadership in themselves and their organizations. Zacha has conducted thousands of coaching sessions, trainings, and workshops across industry, non-profit, and government settings, collaborating with institutions like the City of Santa Monica, Planned Parenthood, Amazon, and Salesforce. In addition to his role at Schonfield Consulting, Zacha facilitates the Leadership Exchange and Coaching Project with the Northeast Regional Child Advocacy Center and offers private virtual coaching from his office in Berkeley, CA.

Noah Schuettge
Associate Consultant

Noah is a coach, facilitator, and therapist who believes that inclusive organizational cultures lead to impactful strategy and operational success. He holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Master’s in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Noah has worked as a community organizer, educator, leadership coach, and trainer with non-profit, education, and legal organizations.

Van Nguyen
Associate Consultant

Van is passionate about equipping private, not-for-profit and public sector clients with strategic market insights that allow organizations to operate at their peak potential. As a consultant at Accenture and Kaiser Permanente, Van worked with a broad range of clients, using a unique blend of analytics and design thinking. Van earned his Masters of Public Policy and BA from University of California, Berkeley.

Meet Our Team

We're based in Berkeley, California and serve clients throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, nationwide and internationally.

"Anne is the quintessential consultant — she listens well, asks good questions, is easy to work with, and a great thought partner. She is the person you want on your team if you want to get s**t done and not waste time. I will work with Anne anytime."

"Anne is the quintessential consultant — she listens well, asks good questions, is easy to work with, and a great "thought partner." She is the person you want on your team if you want to get s**t done and not waste time. I will work with Anne anytime."

“Anne and her team bring a wealth of experience in process design, community investment best practices, and clarity of objectives and program metrics. I would definitely recommend Schonfield Consulting for their rigor and drive to achieve results.”

“Anne and her team played an integral role in designing and implementing Well Being Trust's grant making. Anne is extremely efficient and good at moving things forward. I value Anne’s input tremendously and appreciate her warm and positive manner.”

“Anne and Amy did a marvelous job with our strategic plan -- sensitive to the needs of staff, leadership and Board; focused and efficient; encouraging and relentless. Hidden Villa made an excellent choice to work with Schonfield Consulting.”

“Anne is brilliant at strategic planning. She worked with the NRDC India team to chart our vision and plan for two plans spanning 10 years. She guided a tough task to successful completion by keeping us on target. I highly recommend Anne!”

"Anne is a pleasure to work with and guides you through the difficult strategic planning process with thoughtfulness, passion, and a great work ethic!”

"The ABPAS business plan that Schonfield Consulting helped us develop clearly explains our mission to investors and donors. The research Eva did was comprehensive and well-presented. The services provided by Anne and Eva can definitely help propel many other agencies like ours.”

"We needed someone who was independent, highly focused and knowledgable about capturing data from nonprofits. The final report was excellent. Thanks for taking on Fresno!"

"Anne is a valued colleague and I highly recommend her to anyone needing a top notch consultant... The quality of her work is excellent and her ability to turn it around quickly was very impressive."

"Thank you for carrying us through this process. The end result is pretty dramatic, thanks to your careful eye, your methodical work, and your creative suggestions. You’re a superstar!"

"From her insights into fundraising, to her pointed questions on strategy and her well-organized agendas -- Anne's support has been invaluable. Anne has great energy and is an important member of the TAHMO team."

"Anne has done excellent consultancy work. Her research and review of grant materials produced high quality outputs—she asked tough questions and delivered on time. I would highly recommend Anne."

"That was a great event. Thanks so much for a fantastic facilitation – you know your job and you do it very well! I'm already looking forward to next year’s meeting."

"Working with Anne was extremely excellent! We were very happy with the board retreat and initial strategic planning. The summary report from the retreat is great and goes a long ways to setting a future agenda for CCS."

"Thanks for the excellent job on the case studies. I presented your work at the convening and it garnered a lot of attention. I’m excited to see how things move forward!"

"It was a pleasure working with Schonfield Consulting on our health program evaluation. Anne was super thoughtful and organized, and helped us translate lots of data into a very useful product for our Board."

“Anne provides us with excellent fundraising advice. She put a lot of time and thinking into an excellent fundraising retreat with Board and staff. We did some darn good work and had a good time doing it!”