Kel Haney is a NYC & Maine-based fundraising trainer, coach, consultant, and speaker.

During 20+ years in the non-profit sector, she’s personally made over 20,000 fundraising phone calls and trained non-profit organizations to raise over $20M (primarily in donations $5K & under), which inspired her 5-Minute Fundraising Ask Training & Consulting Programs.

Kel’s work boils down to “Taking the Ick out of the Ask”: she’s passionate about shifting mid-level fundraising conversations away from transactional encounters and toward relationship-building opportunities.

Kel spent 20 years as a theater director, and her fundraising methodology is based on how she led a rehearsal room: focusing on what makes each of us unique and engaging. She empowers non-profit staff, leadership, board members, & artists with the knowledge that they already possess the most critical tools needed to be skilled community-builders: empathy, candor, vulnerability, enthusiasm, and storytelling.

Kel has worked with such organizations as: Ensemble Studio Theatre, MCC Theater, Signature Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Theatre Workshop, TDF, Berkshire Theatre Group, Marin Theatre Company, Music Theatre Wichita, BroadwayUnlocked, The Glimmerglass Festival, The Mustard Seed, Undue Medical Debt, and the University of Illinois Foundation.