PrincipalSherry Consulting
Christine Sherry founded and leads Sherry Consulting, a philanthropic advising practice. Her firm provides strategic, due diligence, market analysis and organizational development services for foundations, private donors and nonprofit organizations. Christine is also a Visiting Practitioner at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. She teaches two courses at Stanford University through its Continuing Studies program, one on emerging trends in philanthropy and the other on high impact nonprofits.
Christine is a respected and seasoned consultant, teacher, facilitator, moderator and lawyer with deep expertise in strategy development, market analysis, and organizational capacity building. Her work includes extensive landscape and field analysis in the areas of climate change and the environment, global development, health, the arts and education. She and her firm have conducted more than two dozen in depth field scans of emerging opportunities and needs for funders in diverse areas, designed to help funders with a strategic assessment of where additional funding can be most leveraged. She also publishes and speaks extensively on these topics. Her clients include some of the most well respected new foundations in Silicon Valley, as well as national and international foundations and individual donors.
Before starting her practice, Christine was the founding Director of The Philanthropy Workshop West, created in 2001 as a partnership among the William and Flora Hewlett, TOSA and Rockefeller Foundations. She also served as Vice President and General Counsel of SRI International and in private law practice for 20 years prior to entering the field of philanthropy. Currently, she serves as a Trustee of the Swanson Foundation, a private grant making foundation in Silicon Valley, California, and for the San Francisco Ballet. Christine graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University in International Relations and with a JD from UC Berkeley.