JAN POMERANTZ

As the Principal of Catalyst Corps LLC, Jan Pomerantz advises nonprofits, foundations and
government entities on enhancing their performance excellence, long-term impact and financial
sustainability. She provides expert consulting assistance through strategic and operational
planning (including restructuring, collaborating, fundraising and marketing counsel), retreat and
meeting facilitation, board and staff development training and executive transition management.

Her current and recent clients include Trident United Way, The Gibbes Museum, The Education
Foundation of the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce, The Sustainability Institute, The
Trident Regional Education Center, Historic Charleston Foundation, AccessHealth Tri-country,
The Citadel, The Free Enterprise Foundation, The Waccamaw Regional Education Center, The
Charleston Regional Development Alliance, The Hospice of Charleston Foundation, Careteam,
Lowcountry Local First, The Hemangioma Treatment Foundation, The Center for Heirs’ Property
Preservation, The Peninsula Task Force, Urban Land Institute South Carolina, United States
Green Building Council – South Carolina and the nonprofit community support organizations of
Newland Communities (and their individual communities throughout the United States), The
Noisette Company and The I’On Group.

An experienced lawyer and senior executive, Jan has led nonprofit and for-profit teams and
organizations for more than thirty years. Her extensive nonprofit management experience
includes developing and executing integrated marketing, communications, programming and
fundraising plans through her leadership roles as:
- Founding Executive Director of the American Marketing Association Foundation (the
philanthropic arm of the largest worldwide association of marketing professionals),
managing over twenty domestic and international grant, award and scholarship
programs and leading the establishment and expansion of the preeminent annual
national marketing conference for senior nonprofit marketing executives;
- Director of Sponsorship Marketing for the Atlanta Committee for the 1996 Olympic
Games;
- Founding Director of Planned Giving for the Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta (the
largest visual and performing arts center south of Washington, D.C.); and
- A committed community volunteer with numerous organizations, such as serving as
a member of the boards of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Alliance Theatre
and the Board of Visitors of Emory University, as an officer and committee chair of
the I’On Trust and as a member of the development committee of the Coastal
Community Foundation.

Her corporate and legal experience includes:

- Vice President and Legal Counsel for Federated Department Stores, managing
various law departments for the Southeastern division as well as several major
corporate community relations initiatives; and
- Vice President of Ketchum Public Relations, directing the corporate social marketing,
community relations and sponsorship corporate group practice.

Jan holds a J.D. degree from Emory University and a B.A. degree, cum laude, from the
University of Pennsylvania. A frequent speaker at nonprofit and association management
conferences, she is a graduate of the Harvard Business School’s Strategic Perspectives in
Nonprofit Management Program, BoardSource’s Advanced Board Consulting and Vital
Facilitation Techniques Programs and La Piana Consulting’s Strategic Restructuring Training for
Consultants. She has been a featured presenter for the South Carolina Association of Nonprofit
Organizations and for the Lowcountry Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.
She has served as a College of Charleston faculty member for the School of the Arts and for the
Business School at the Medical University of South Carolina Leadership Workshops.
19 Isle of Hope Road • Mount Pleasant, SC 29464 • 843-810-7150 •
jan@CatalystCorps.com