Chris Sanders, Principal Consultant
Focus Areas
Fundraising, Annual Giving, Major Giving
Published Articles
Tip Sheet: Marketing Your School's Unique Value
About Chris
As a Principal Consultant, Chris is responsible for working with customers to implement The Education Edge and Student Information System. He assists other consultants with issues that they may be having with their customer implementations and best practices related to independent schools and small colleges’ student information. Chris also delivers educational services and technical consulting to provide comprehensive software solutions, as well as working closely with product development, sales and support teams at Blackbaud. In addition, Chris contributes to practice development efforts and enjoys mentoring and training other consultants at Blackbaud. Chris’ extensive knowledge of our education administration and fundraising systems, as well as his understanding of database design allows him to assist school administrators and development officers on refining business processes and developing customized system setup to meet their data management needs. Prior to joining Blackbaud in 2007, Chris worked in Higher Education Institutions for 18 years. A cross section of his responsibilities included database and process management, database and system design, specialized data extraction and custom reporting. Chris also was responsible for assisting with data communication between multiple institution databases.