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For more than 25 years, Kelly Hart has helped dozens of nonprofit agencies raise funds and achieve their operational and programmatic goals. She provides a variety of fundraising consulting services, including grantwriting, fundraising assessments, and helping improve clients’ fundraising strategies and success.

Kelly has written and secured $300 million in federal, state, city, county, foundation and corporate grants for food, homeless, educational, healthcare and other programs. She has worked with dozens of U.S. and international non-profit agencies to raise and manage grant funds.  

Kelly is a member of the Arizona Alliance of Nonprofits and the Association of Fundraising Professions, including serving as a mentor in the Phoenix’s Chapter’s Mentoring Program.  She served on the Board of the Arizona chapter of the Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement for several years, including a two-year term as President and a two-year term as Vice President.

She has served as a guest speaker/trainer about fundraising and grant writing with several organizations:

• ASU Nonprofit Management Institute
• Arizona Charter School Association
• St. Mary’s Food Bank
• Arizona Coalition to End Homelessness
• Arizona State University

Kelly has written several featured articles, including:

• How to Really Write a Nonprofit Grant, published at huttle.com
• Assessing Your Need, Attaining Your Funding, published in Learning Services’  No Child Left Behind: A Solution Guide for Educators magazine
• Tell a Story to Make Grant Writing Easier, published in Managing School Business.

Kelly holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Business Management from the University of Phoenix.