Expertise and Significant Experience in Major Gifts, Capital Gifts, Endowment, Planned Giving, Special Events, Annual Fund, Non-Profit Administration & Management.
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With three decades in "cause," arts, legal, and medical non-profit organizations, both in the United States and in Great Britain, Catherine Clark possesses broad experience in non-profit administration, fund raising, board development, capital and major gifts campaigns, and conference and special-event management. In the 1970s, she was a Housing Aid Worker for the Glasgow office of the British homelessness charity, SHELTER, managing a battered women's shelter, representing clients in courts and tribunals, and making frequent appearances in the Scottish media. From 1980-85 she was Assistant Executive Director of Council for a Livable World (CLW) and Council for a Livable World Education Fund; in the mid-'80s she consulted to UK charities (Medical Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons, British "Freeze" campaign, British office of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War) and founded her own London-based 501(c)(3) organization to work on nuclear weapons treaties from a European perspective.
Returning to the United States in the late 1980s, Catherine worked as development associate for WalthamWeston Hospital & Medical Center. From 1992-1999 she was development director of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Massachusetts.
In the late 1990s, as president of her own consulting firm, Sherwood Forest Incorporated, she became development and capital campaign director of Greenwood Music Camp in W. Mass. and capital campaign director of the Center for Arms Control & Non-Proliferation (CACNP) in Washington, DC (formerly Council for a Livable World Education Fund). Her other clients included the American Physicians Fellowship for Medicine in Israel, the Scottish Rite Masons, Michaelhouse Centre, and Cambridge Quest -- the latter two in England.
Catherine became full-time Development Director of RESPOND, a domestic violence agency based in Somerville. At the same time, she was consultant annual fund director for CACNP, assisted 20/20 Vision in Washington to prepare a major gifts campaign in honor of their 20 th anniversary, and launched a planned giving campaign for Greenwood Music Camp. She joined the YWCA Boston as Director of Institutional Advancement in April, 2005, taking charge of a $1.6 annual fund and a $6.6 million capital campaign. She is volunteer appeal director for the St. Botolph's restoration campaign (Boston, England), a member of the board of overseers of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and a member of the board of directors of the Cambridge Madrigal Singers.
*501(c)(3) is the Internal Revenue Code under which charities seeking tax-exempt gifts are organized in the USA.
Sherwood Forest Incorporated* is registered as a for-profit corporation with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 2000, its president, Catherine Clark, has three decades of experience with "cause," legal, musical, medical, and other charitable organizations.