Shelly joined Cobb Community Foundation in March of 2023 as the Director of Nonprofit Services. She has over two decades of nonprofit experience serving with local, national, and global organizations of all shapes and sizes. Her years of unique and varied experience in the nonprofit sector have made her passionate about social impact and purpose driven work.
Shelly began her career in the Health Affairs Department of WebMD, managing health-related nonprofit relationships. In 2002, she left to join the national sales team for March of Dimes, one of her clients at WebMD. Eight years later, Shelly and her husband, Dan, founded an East African NGO, dedicated to juvenile justice, called SixtyFeet. While leading this organization, she and her family had the opportunity to live in Kampala, Uganda. Today SixtyFeet is the leading organization in child resettlement in East Africa.
Following the successful launch of SixtyFeet, Shelly first consulted for several growing nonprofits and eventually took over as CEO for Go Be Love International in 2016. Go Be Love actively operated in mission fields all over the world, until its COVID-forced closure in July of 2020. During her tenure at Go Be Love, the organization nearly doubled in size, scope, and mission fields served. Her favorite part of the job was introducing the mission field to her own community in Marietta, Georgia and watching global missions come to life among her friends and neighbors.
In 2021, Shelly rejoined March of Dimes to serve with their Corporate Engagement Team managing many high profile, strategic accounts including Northside Hospital, the largest birthing hospital in the United States. While Shelly enjoyed her work with March of Dimes, local nonprofit work has always had her heart and, in 2023, she jumped at the opportunity to join the Cobb Community Foundation team.
Shelly is an Honor’s Graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill holding a B.A. in Political Science. She and Dan have 5 teenage children; three biological and two adopted from East Africa. When she’s not busy with her nonprofit work, Shelly can be found on the tennis court, trail running, cheering on her Tarheels in ACC basketball, and soaking up time with her family.
Shelly’s contact information:
shelly@cobbfoundation.org
770-859-2351
