Welcome To Effective Leadership Advisors (ELA) Nonprofit Consulting
MISSION
Effective Leadership Advisors (ELA) Nonprofit Consulting leverages the brain power of Senior Consultants and Advanced Technologies to answer research and practice questions more cost effectively than any other paid source, teaching nonprofit organizations, public servants, students as well as other individuals, optimal strategies and tactics in the face of increasingly complex and challenging environments.
ORGANIZATIONAL STATUS
ELA is a 501 (c) 3 not-for-profit incorporated in Maine, USA.
ADVISING
Professional, Academic & Organizational Leadership; Conflict Management
Do you have a research or practice question that your team has not been able to adequately answer or not willing to spend the money on?
ELA Nonprofit Consultanting will provide you with the most cost-effective research and practice answers. In addition, we research and teach professional, academic and organizational leadership as well as conflict management. We advise nonprofit organizations, public servants, students and other individuals who are facing barriers to advancement in areas related to your question or your mission.
Advanced Applied Research
We are fixers. We fix your information-based puzzles and problems as fast and effectively as anyone can. In advising nonprofit organizations, public servants and students, ELA leverages the brain power of Senior Consultants and Advanced Technologies for applied research, including but not limited to Computer-Assisted Quantitative Data Analysis Software, Generative Artificial Intelligence, and electronic libraries and databases.
Advising Fees
ELA offers a sliding-scale fee schedule based on organizational or personal income.
Effective Leadership Advisors
Mary Centellas, Attorney-at-Law: Juvenile & Restorative Justice.
Abraham Sarmiento: Information Technology & Security.
Jon R. Zemans, MBA: Nonprofit Governance.
Adam R. Zemans, Attorney-at-Law (JD, MSW, MS): Nonprofit Governance, Conflict Resolution Design & Implementation, Conflict Coaching & Strategy, Negotiation, and College Application, Scholarship & Fellowship Advising, Advanced Electronic Research.
PUBLISHING
ELA publishes news and articles deemed relevant to your mission.
Disclaimer
ELA utilizes Webglot for automatic translations of English text into Spanish. While we edit and address any potential misspellings, the system has limitations. Please exercise discretion when using this translated text to prevent misrepresentation.
Featured
What's happening to American universities is unprecedented in scope and breathtaking in its recklessness.
We are either witnessing the death of verifiable knowledge, or its most spectacular rebirth.
Governor Mills today issued a proclamation declaring May 1, 2025 as "Law Day" throughout the State of Maine. Law Day has been celebrated annually on May 1 since its 1958 designation by President Eisenhower.
Announcing Citizens’ Climate International Workshops for the upcoming U.N. COP 29 conference.
Your guide to quick and effective climate action
A joint investigation by Rolling Stone and the Food and Environment Reporting Network reveals that Amazon’s rapid data center expansion in eastern Oregon is exacerbating a severe public health emergency.
In a landscape dominated by massive, energy-consuming artificial intelligence models, a new contender has emerged from an unlikely source: the microscopic roundworm.
The article argues that many companies are approaching artificial intelligence with the wrong mindset, creating policies that slow adoption rather than strengthen accountability.
A new study has challenged the long-held assumption that artificial intelligence models cannot truly reason about language, demonstrating that advanced systems can now analyze linguistic structures with the sophistication of a human expert
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei used a 60 Minutes interview to renew his urgent call for AI regulation, warning that without oversight, the rapidly advancing technology could eliminate up to half of all entry-level consulting, legal, and financial jobs within five years.
Anthropic revealed on Thursday that Chinese state-sponsored hackers successfully deployed the company’s Claude AI model to automate nearly 90 percent of a cyberespionage campaign against 30 global targets.
A groundbreaking study by METR has challenged the prevailing assumption that AI tools significantly accelerate software development.
The escalating conflict between Washington and our nation's most prestigious universities has reached a fever pitch. The Trump administration, in an aggressive pursuit of its campaign promises, is actively targeting elite institutions like Harvard and Columbia, threatening their federal funding and accreditation status.
In 2015, Mark Carney, then Governor of the Bank of England, delivered a pivotal speech at Lloyd's of London that fundamentally shifted how the financial sector perceives climate risk.
Mark Carney addressed the growing recognition of climate change as a significant threat to financial stability, a perspective that has only intensified in recent years. Understanding the intersection of climate and finance is now crucial for investors, financial institutions, and the public alike. With initiatives from central banks like the Bank of England and ongoing financial risk assessments, it's clear that climate change is no longer just an environmental concern; it's a financial one.
A short presentation about the viability of building a data center powered by geothermal energy in Hungary.
A short presentation discussing the potential viability of constructing a data center that would be powered by geothermal energy in the South East region of Hungary. This innovative approach to energy generation has the capacity to sustainably meet the energy demands for anticipated future artificial intelligence developments and applications.

In the next fifteen years, data centers are expected to add an additional $160 billion to electric grid costs in the U.S. By one estimate, electricity rates for average households cold spike as much as seventy percent. While companies like Amazon, Meta and Google are making record profits, the rest of us are forced to foot the bill.
In the next fifteen years, data centers are expected to add an additional $160 billion to electric grid costs in the U.S. By one estimate, electricity rates for average households cold spike as much as seventy percent. While companies like Amazon, Meta and Google are making record profits, the rest of us are forced to foot the bill.