Sheryl Kaplan is an Independent Consultant who develops grant proposals for private foundations and corporations on behalf of local, regional, and national tax-exempt secular nonprofit organizations located in the United States. Although her primary expertise is in the fields of community-based social services and health care, she has a special interest in working with grassroots social justice organizations.

Sheryl’s extensive experience in the nonprofit sector includes serving as Consultant or staff member for organizations such as:

• Advisory Board on Autism and Related Disorders
• Alcoholism Center for Women
• Association of Salvadorans in Los Angeles
• Comprehensive Community Health Centers
• Dubnoff Center for Child Development
• Georgia Network to End Sexual Assault
• Para Los Niños
• Planned Parenthood Los Angeles
• University of Southern California
• Women and Philanthropy

Sheryl earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology degree, cum laude, from Southampton College of Long Island University in 1976 and a Master of Library Science degree from San José State University in 1981.

She is a member of the Grant Professionals Association (formerly the American Association of Grant Professionals).