Kelly Zielinski

Kelly Zielinski is an Accounting Manager at the Community Foundation.  In this role, she is responsible for the reporting with our external partners as well as Niagara Area and Wyoming Foundations. Kelly handles the accounting for stock gifts, outside investor accounts, charitable remainder trusts, charitable gift annuities and pooled income funds.

Prior to joining the Community Foundation, Kelly spent 14 years at Catholic Charities of Buffalo, most recently as the Director of Finance. In her role, she created expenditure reports for foundation grants and government funded contracts, and developed and managed nonprofit program budgets. Previously, she was an Accounting Clerk at Foodservice Management, and an Accounting Clerk at John W. Danforth Company.

Kelly received her B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting from SUNY Empire State.