OUR BLOG
This is the first blog for Kelly Hart & Associates
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.
Corporate and Foundation Funders:
- The U.S. and Arizona Departments of Education
- The Bob and Renee Parsons Foundation
- Bank of America
- The Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust
- The International Foundation
- U.S. and Arizona Departments of Health & Human Services
- Boeing
- Shamrock Foods Foundation
- Arizona Department of Economic Security
- American Express
- JP Morgan Chase
- PetSmart Charities
- Santa Barbara County Health Department
- FEMA
- Federal Emergency Management Agency
- Kellogg Foundation, and many more.