About Our President

Daniel Q. Kelley

After receiving degrees in City Planning from MIT and Harvard, Mr. Kelley became the executive director and fund raiser 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. Throughout the 1990s he combined his business and non-profit experiences for the benefit of overseas civil society organizations (including what the U.S. calls non-profits). While a Program Director at the International Youth Foundation, one of the world's largest broadly-supported foundations working on youth issues, his responsibilities included fund raising for, and management of the budget of a $25 million job-training program in Latin America and the Caribbean. Mr. Kelley is now President of the Global Work-Ethic Fund, which provides strategic planning services to civil society organizations in developing and transition countries, including advising them on their Boards of Directors, their management, and their local and international fund raising.

Mr. Kelley is the author, in Spanish, of Dinero Para su Causa (1994), the first book on those subjects created for Latin American civil society, and Más Dinero Para su Causa (2000), a much expanded edition. A version of the first book exists in Portuguese: Dinheiro Para sua Causa (1995). Mr. Kelley is co-editor of the scholarly journal Cooperación Internacional and co-author of Individual Philanthropy Around the World, a chapter in Sustaining Civil Society (1997). For several recent 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 also speaks French, Italian, Portuguese and Russian.