Sherman Haggerty served on the Volunteers of America (VOA) (Northern California-Northern Nevada) board of directors from 2005 to 2013. In 2014 he stepped down and became the director at their transitional housing program, Mather Community Campus. Through 2019 VOA served over one thousand homeless clients at Mather. In 2019 he finished his work to become an ordained minister with VOA focusing on trauma and moral injury. Sherman has a master's degree in management from the Peter F Drucker Graduate Management Program at the Claremont Graduate School. He spent 30 years as a homebuilding executive and was voted into the California Homebuilding Foundation Hall of Fame in 2011 with particular emphasis on his record of community service.