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 American Association of Grant Professionals and the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, and is registered as Fundraising Counsel with the Office of the Attorney General, Registry of Charitable Trusts, State of California (FC-1241).