Sherwood Forest Incorporated provides charitable institutions with experienced development counsel for improved governance, administration, fiscal management, event coordination, and fund-raising.

We believe that the executive director and Board of Directors are critical to the fund-raising success of an organization, and that the development officer – whether in a consultant capacity or on staff – is best utilized as an assistant, planner, researcher, teacher, confidant, manager, administrator, exhorter, coach . . . and occasional bully!

Sherwood Forest Incorporated will examine your charity’s fund-raising potential, increase the effectiveness of its development staff, and teach board members, program managers, and executive directors how to carry out their responsibilities for raising major gifts through proven techniques that are both sensitive to the needs of donors . . . and to the fears of solicitors.

We do not provide resident counsel. We will come on site as often as necessary, but Sherwood Forest Incorporated has proven that campaigns can be effectively and efficiently managed at a distance as long as key staff and board members make themselves available for frequent consultation during the course of a campaign.

Senior associates working for Sherwood Forest Incorporated know what it is like to be asked for – and to pledge -- a major gift and will be a member of a charitable Board of Directors. Our strength lies in our empathy with board members who may be new to major gift fund raising.

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Sherwood Forest Incorporated* is registered as a for-profit corporation with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 2000, its president, Catherine Clark, has more than two decades of experience with "cause," legal, musical, medical, and other charitable organizations.

*While the name Sherwood Forest is of course suggestive of "taking from the better off to help the less well off," Sherwood is a family name that originated in Nottingham, England, where the original Sherwood Forest is located.