Utilizing an array of evaluation and impact measurement and management approaches, I work with foundations and impact investors to gather, make sense of, and use impact information drawn from their grant and investment portfolios. My 35 years of experience in the nonprofit and for-profit sectors advising and evaluating foundations, running nonprofit advocacy organizations, and co-directing a foundation leavens my judgment and grants me forthrightness.Current and recent community and field engagement in chiwch I am involved includes:• Founding member and advisor, Mission Investors Exchange Impact Measurement and Management (IMM) working group• Steering Committee, American Evaluation Association’s Social Finance working group• Founding steering committee member of Impacting Together, a Salesforce-catalysed effort to advance the impact management infrastructure (2020-2022)• Chair of Davidson County Solid Waste Region Board (1992-2022)Examples of current and recent client work includes:• Prepare story-based case studies on community perspectives of impact investments for the Colorado Health Foundation (2023-2025)• Co-lead evaluation of The W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s $300 million social bond impact investment (2023-2025)• Co-lead development of the learning and evaluation plan of The California Endowment's $300 million social bond-funded impact investments (2022-2026)• Co-lead, Community Investment Guarantee Project, Locus Impact Investing evaluation of a multi-funder guarantee pool for community-focused investment organizations. (2021-2025)• Co-lead learning and evaluation of The W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s place-based funding efforts (2024)• Led assessment of The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation’s Environment Program (2024)• Led, Impact Assessment of CDFI, Invest Detroit: assessed past impacts, and co-created a learning and impact framework for its financial, technical assistance, and systems change platforms. (2021-2022)Specialties: social impact measurement, management, and policy; systems; leadership; advocacy; and community engagement.
Sherman Impact Consulting
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Chief PartnerSherman Impact ConsultingNashville, Tn, Us
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Impact Advisor & CollaboratorSherman Impact Consulting Jan 2021 - PresentUnited StatesStructuring client- and project-specific bespoke teams, my partners and I work with impact investors and funders to assess if and how much their impact capital – investments and grants – contributes to their social impact mission and goals. We utilize the range of evaluation and impact management tools to help clients: i) align intentions with impact, ii) understand the systems affecting and affected by investments; iii) articulate potential and actual risks, and positive and negative impacts of investments, iv) strengthen accountability through collaborative partnerships with the communities’ intended to benefit from the investment; and, v) build dynamic learning and feedback tools and processes.
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Co-Founder And Senior Managing DirectorPfc Social Impact Advisors, Llc 1999 - May 2022United StatesCo-founded and was senior manager at pfc, a global consultancy that helps people and organizations with money, time, and vision do good. We offer strategic planning and assessment; trendsetting research; strategic learning and evaluation; teaching and coaching for change to clients foundations, individuals, impact investors, corporations, governments, and intermediaries at the leading edge of social change.
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Co-Executive Director And Program DirectorGreat Lakes Protection Fund 1993 - 1995Directed development and implementation of $4 million annual environmental grantmaking program. Worked closely with Board of Directors to ensure fulfillment of Fund’s mission through appropriate grantmaking, outreach and financial management of assets of $80 million. Also worked with governors and their staff of the Fund’s seven member states (Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin ) to maintain their involvement and support.
John Sherman Education Details
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Plant Ecology And Botany
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