Experienced + Forward Thinking

Rooted in Strategy

SFG Strategies designs each engagement to align your goals, strategy, and operations in order to realize your greater vision. We can support you as early as the brainstorming stage of a project, or you can tap into our expertise further along when ready to assess expansion, cultivate new partnerships, and attract additional resources.

Leadership

Sharon Feuer Gruber is a seasoned strategy consultant and results-driven partner to nonprofits, community development financial institutions, small businesses, and governmental agencies. Clients turn to her for market analyses, strategic planning, program design, impact evaluation, marketing and communications, and fundraising / capitalization. 

Sharon’s portfolio of engagements includes serving as Senior Advisor for The Global Good Fund, where she helps drive growth across the organization's social impact ecosystem of nonprofit programs, advisory services, and venture capital impact funds. In all of her work, she takes a systems approach, is data driven, and authentically engages stakeholders — building clients' capacity for the long term. 

Previously, Sharon served as Director of Partnerships and Development for City First Enterprises, a community development financial institution. She also founded another advisory firm, managed a social enterprise focused on the intersection of conservation and food security, and has held leadership positions on nonprofit organizations’ marketing and communications teams. Sharon is a past Board Chair for the Montgomery County Food Council and member of various advisory committees and task forces nationally, as well as in her local community of Montgomery County, Maryland.

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Sharon is drawn to the nuance and complexity of systems-based thinking and collective impact work. As such, she frequently collaborates with, and leads, teams of consultants who are experts in their fields. Together, they offer both breadth and depth of perspectives, allowing SFG Strategies to deliver you a full complement of consulting services.

“Part of what stood out to me about working with Sharon was how deeply she engaged our internal and external stakeholders. This was critical to the results she delivered, effectively guiding our organizational development and fundraising strategy during a time of change.”

— NESSA J. RICHMAN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, RHODE ISLAND FOOD POLICY COUNCIL