Sarann Slattery serves as Senior Counsel to Hansen Henley Slattery & Yoder. For more than twenty years, she has been active in the Minnesota Philanthropic arena, providing leadership within the fundraising programs at Cretin-Derham Hall, a Catholic secondary school in St. Paul and most recently as Vice President of Membership for Minnesota Public Radio. She is particularly skilled in program and budgetary management, identification, cultivation and solicitation of major donors, database and record format design and has extensive experience in both annual and capital campaign design and management.

During her years at Cretin-Derham Hall the school was honored by CASE for its award winning campaign, Building for Excellence. The campaign had the distinction of bringing the school out of serious debt and ultimately into a new era that included $7+M of building renovations. Minnesota Public Radio saw individual gifts to annual giving increase from $7.5M to nearly $12M during her tenure. Her emphasis on building strong relationships with major donors resulted in tremendous growth of gifts of $1K+. In addition to increasing the effectiveness of traditional Membership activities she led significant advances in direct mail, online fundraising and email communications.

She is former chair of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Minnesota Chapter has served as an adjunct professor at the University of St. Thomas in their MBA program and is frequently asked to participate in strategic planning sessions with a host of organizations in the metro area.