Building Community Together

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Cheryl formed Huber Strategies to support the many innovative organizations and passionate people who are striving to address community needs across the Northeast and nationally.

Cheryl has built programs and advanced policies to support food access, poverty reduction, and local agriculture over the last 15 years, and previously worked in the areas of open space access, domestic violence, and youth empowerment and education. She has held roles in network-based nonprofits as well as small community-based organizations.

  • As the Vice President of Food and Benefits Access at United Way of New York City, Cheryl and her team connected 500 emergency food providers to capacity building support, nutrition education, and high quality, culturally appropriate and local foods. She advanced procurement strategies that prioritized local and BIPOC farmers and food hubs while addressing hunger relief. 

    For more than a decade Cheryl served as Assistant Director for the esteemed Greenmarket program at GrowNYC, where she developed and operationalized strategic initiatives to increase affordable food access, support farm businesses, and support the use of SNAP and WIC benefits at farmers markets and other local food outlets. Cheryl led several food is medicine programs, including the acceptance of over-the-counter Medicaid benefits at farmers markets.

    Cheryl was an appointed member of the NYC Mayoral Transition Team to address food policy needs in 2021. Serving as a funder, a board member, a grant reviewer and writer, and a nonprofit leader, Cheryl can fluently move across viewpoints to serve partners. Policy and advocacy have been a throughline of her career and she is skilled at evaluating political opportunities, risks, and implications connected to nonprofit programs, advocacy, and fundraising. Cheryl is an experienced media spokesperson and has been featured in numerous outlets including NY1, the New York Post, Gothamist, Pix11 News, Bronx12 News, and more.

    Cheryl received her master’s degree from NYU Wagner School of Public Service and her bachelor’s in sociology from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. She believes strongly in rhubarb pie without strawberries.

What We Do

We support organizations who seek to:

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Define or Refresh Strategies

  • Program strategy

  • Strategic redirection in response to funding and political winds

  • Actionable plans

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Pilot and Scale Programs

  • Transform community goals into tangible programs

  • Sustainable program growth

  • Illuminate funding opportunities

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Organize Programmatic Events

  • Impactful public programs

  • Events to broadcast thought leadership

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Expand Values-Based Funding

  • Flexible grant-making strategies

  • Supportive grantee engagement

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Leverage Partnerships to Further Success

  • Stakeholder mapping and alignment

  • Cross-sector relationship development

  • Funder engagement

  • Network-driven strategy

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