Kelly has served nonprofit organizations for 25 years. Since 1998, she has led NYCON’s Financial Management Group, providing financial management technical assistance and training to nonprofit staff and boards of directors throughout New York State, both directly and via partnerships with New York State agencies and foundations. She also serves as NYCON’s Chief Operating Officer, providing leadership on NYCON’s organization-wide initiatives, public policy and infrastructure. Kelly’s areas of expertise include accounting information systems analysis, selection, conversion, implementation and training; fiscal procedures and internal control assessment and documentation; reporting and compliance assessment; the IRS form 990 and tax exempt issues and board/staff training and facilitation regarding nonprofit financial management, sustainability, reporting, and governance structures.

Kelly also serves two of NYCON’s wholly-controlled nonprofit subsidiaries in an executive capacity. As Executive Director of Good Causes, Inc., she leads the organization’s provision of fiscal sponsorship and employment and administrative services to emerging nonprofit organizations, programs in transition, collaboratives and consortiums nationwide. She also serves as Chief Operating Officer of BoardStrong, Inc. Kelly’s professional affiliations include membership in the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Alliance for Nonprofit Management, and the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, for whom she has served on its Not-for-Profit Committee since 2001 and co-chaired its Nonprofit Conferences in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2015-2017 and chaired in 2016. She was a voting delegate representing New York at the inaugural National Nonprofit Congress in 2006 and was a moderator and presenter at the 2008 Congress.

Having provided specific training and technical assistance for a wide variety of nonprofit organizations, including community and rural health centers, community action agencies, humane societies, volunteer fire departments and districts, volunteer ambulance corps, child care providers, arts and cultural organizations, community foundations, libraries, and a variety of health and human service and philanthropic organizations, Kelly speaks regularly on financial management, regulatory compliance and board governance topics effecting nonprofit organizations throughout New York and nationally. She presents regularly at the New York State Attorney General’s Charities Bureau Charities Symposia and has led sessions at the AICPA’s National Nonprofit and Governmental Trainings. She develops curriculum and provides training to and on behalf of New York State agencies, including the Department of Health’s AIDS Institute and Center for Community Health, Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services, Office of Mental Health, Office of Children and Family Services, Office of People with Developmental Disabilities, Office of the Medicaid Inspector General, New York State Council on the Arts, Offices of Victims Services, New York State Council for the Arts and the New York City Mayor’s Office of Contract Services. She provides sessions each year for the National Council of Nonprofits’ annual ConFab, a gathering of state associations from around the country.

Originally from Oklahoma and Arkansas, Kelly now calls New York home and lives in New York’s Capital District with her husband and three dogs, including two rescued from shelters throughout the Southern US and one rambunctious Gordon Setter. She is an active member and supporter of the ASPCA, the Humane Society of the United States, the Gordon Setter Club of America, the Tartan Gordon Setter Club, the American Horticultural Society, the Adirondack Mountain Club, the Appalachian Mountain Club, the American Alpine Club, the Nature Conservancy, the Arbor Day Foundation, Trout Unlimited, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the ACLU. Kelly enjoys backpacking, climbing, and snowshoeing in the Adirondack and White mountains and cycling, skiing and fly fishing anywhere. Also an avid gardener, she weeds in her spare time.