A lawyer educated at the University of Chicago, Kelly Kleiman has spent more than 30 years in the nonprofit sector. She founded NFP Consulting after serving as Executive Director of the Chicago Children’s Choir and Assistant Dean of IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. These experiences prepared her to become a serial Interim Executive Director. First, she served a long stint as the turnaround Interim Executive Director of Open Communities, the fair-housing agency serving Chicago's northern suburbs, where she reestablished the agency's program and financial strengths. She has also been Interim Executive Director of Care for Real and Reading Between the Lines. As a consultant, Kelly builds programs for the use of high-skills volunteers, conducts board recruitment and training, and guides staff and board through strategic planning. She also helps raise money from individuals using expertise she gained while serving as a major gifts officer in higher education and at human services agencies. Kelly writes powerful promotional pieces for nonprofits specializing in advocacy, arts, law and government, philanthropy, social justice, and women and girls.