Daniel Q. Kelley

After receiving degrees in City Planning from MIT and Harvard, Mr. Kelley became the executive director of a community center for Mexican- and African-American workers and their families in Chicago. An expert in corporate real estate finance, he stayed active in educational and youth projects while a consultant in Chicago and Houston. He later combined his business and non-profit experiences for the benefit of civil society organizations in developing and transition countries, providing them with strategic planning services, including advising them on their governance, their management and their local and international fundraising. In the nine years during which he concentrated on fundraising for small organizations in the global south, he helped them obtain $31 million. He is now President of the Global Fund, which advises US-based donors on their overseas contributions. He also teaches theology and the history of the Catholic Church at St. John the Beloved Academy in McLean, Virginia.

Mr. Kelley’s recent books are An Outline Of Church History and Gospel Quirks. He is also the author, in Spanish, of Dinero para su Causa (1994), the first book on governance and fundraising created for Latin American civil society, and Más Dinero para su Causa (2013), a much expanded edition. The Portuguese versions are Dinheiro para sua Causa (1995) and Mais Dinheiro para sua Causa (2013). Mr. Kelley has been co-editor of the scholarly journal Cooperación Internacional (Madrid, Spain) and a contributor to other publications, including Alliance Magazine.

For several years he was on the International Development Committee of the Association of Fund Raising Professionals and a member of the Board of Directors of WRAP, the world's largest independent certifier of factories for compliance with standards of safety, ecology and human rights. Bilingual in Spanish, Mr. Kelley has been appointed a Correspondent Member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language, the US affiliate of the Royal Academy, and has published in its journal. He also speaks French, Italian, Portuguese, Latin, and (some) Russian.