Sara-Lee Caligiuri

Professional Summary

Sara-Lee has spent her professional life developing, building, maintaining, and improving databases. With more than 30 years of experience in data management systems, she brings in-depth knowledge to clients in the non-profit sector, specializing in Health Care and Academic industries with complex data needs, multiple merging health systems, and data systems. She has worked with Raiser’s Edge since its DOS version.

Professional Experience

Sara-Lee creates database solutions that optimize team performance, including automating processes, office management, budgeting, gift management, solicitor and proposal analysis, queries, imports, exports, memberships, event participation tracking solutions, prospect management and research, and KPI dashboard reporting.

Sara-Lee worked as the Executive Director of Operations at Rochester Regional Health Foundations for five years, overseeing the foundation’s office management, gift processing, and data management teams, having previously served as a consultant for three years. She has worked with databases containing over 500,000 records and managed data merges for hospital mergers and acquisitions.

Her expertise includes Raiser’s Edge, Financial Edge, NXT, NetCommunity, ResearchPoint, Target Analytics, Altru, Just Giving, ThankView, Donor Search, Wealth Engine, Tableau, Qlik, DonorPerfect, and many other CRM and fundraising software tools.

Prior to joining Donor Database Experts, she served as a Principal Consultant with a national consulting firm, helping clients build their databases and procedures for success. Her past roles include Director of Data Management at Saint John’s Health Center Foundation and John Wayne Cancer Institute in Santa Monica, California, and Database Manager at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.