Sandra Yates
Senior Consultant
People can often be heard saying, “God, Family, and blank.” The blank is filled with alma maters, Greek organizations, etc. For me the blank is filled with “Service to Humanity and especially education.
Expertise
Annual Fund
Major Gifts
Capital Campaign Preparation
Yates has acquired decades of experience in direct fundraising and planning. Her primary focus has been building the annual fund to create a fundraising pipeline and preparing for capital campaigns. She played a major role in preparing the Spelman College for its most recent $250 million campaign. She gained her experience as small to mid-size public and private universities including Swarthmore College and Lincoln University. Yates has also built the fundraising structure for several non-educational not for profit agencies as well. Her specialties are Major and Annual Campaign Planning and Management and Prospect identification through database management.