Kelly Gibson
Vice president
(she/her)
Kelly has more than two decades of direct nonprofit management experience. Throughout her career, she has developed and administered programs that address important community issues, particularly in rural and Native American communities. She has assisted hundreds of organizations to design and launch effective programs, create evaluation frameworks, develop strategic plans, and build systems that continuously improve their results. She has deep experience helping nonprofits assess their strategy and operations, and facilitate planning to move their mission forward.
Since coming to Numad five years ago, she has led strategic planning processes and built program evaluation frameworks for statewide and regional food banks in California, South Dakota and Montana, and supported statewide food access organizations through the full cycle of successful capital campaigns, from conducting the feasibility assessments through campaign planning and implementation.
She has also worked with rural organizations focused on health care and workforce development to create effective fund development programs and to evaluate their program work. Most recently, she led a study of the South Dakota nonprofit sector in collaboration with the Rural Philanthropy Institute and Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. This study was based on primary data sources and describes the scope, financial patterns and economic contributions of South Dakota nonprofits.
Prior to joining Numad, she served as the director of programs at National Relief Charities for over 15 years, where she led broad-based programs that addressed immediate needs of underserved communities, as well as programs designed to lead to long term, sustainable gains. In her work with over 60 Native American tribes, 96 percent of partner programs reported a higher level of effectiveness and improved results due to utilizing programming she led. Equally effective at fundraising and donor development, Kelly also led the development of grant and gift-in-kind strategies and cultivated major funder relationships for more than a decade. Within ten years, she grew annual revenue from zero to upwards of $20 million in grants and critical gift-in-kind products for underserved communities for NRC.
Phone
605/381-3184
Hub
Rapid City, SD
Education
Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Social Work, University of Wyoming
Master of Arts Degree in Psychology, Lesley College