Experience

Melissa Sandor, Principal of Melissa Sandor Inc., has 25 years of experience in not-for-profit fund raising in New York City and nationally, with a particular expertise in the arts and culture field. She has provided services in strategic planning, capital campaigns, corporate and foundation relations, major gifts, prospect research, and special events. Current and past clients include:  Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City Ballet, American Craft Council, Ballet Hispanico, and New York Stage & Film, among others. Prior to consulting, Sandor was the Director of Development for Studio in a School, a New York City based visual arts-education organization. She has held senior development positions at The City University of New York, Queens College, where she directed the corporate and foundation relations effort, and Pratt Institute. Sandor is on the Board of The Millay Colony for the Arts where she is a past resident. She is a MacDowell Arts Colony Fellow and a former member of the Board of Directors of Women in Development, New York. She is a writer whose work has appeared in Ploughshares and BOMB Magazine.