Posts in Sterling Network NYC
Why Philanthropy Can’t Keep Hoarding Assets in the Pandemic

Talking in public about toilet paper ranks right up there with jokes about “quarantinis” and Zoom Brady Bunch references on my list of pandemic pet peeves.

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Nonprofit Leaders Respond To COVID-19: Early Lessons From The Field, Part 2

This is Part Two in my series about how organizational leaders are responding to and navigating COVID-19. This article is an attempt to reflect and organize the questions that leaders around the country are grappling with as they consider their organizations’ post-COVID resilience and stability.

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Nonprofit Leaders Respond to COVID-19: Early Lessons From The Field

We are in a moment of unprecedented tumult and change. Every day, nonprofit leaders are challenged to think and respond in new ways, and in a constantly shifting social, political and economic context that leaves even seasoned leaders reeling and grasping for answers.

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A Checklist of To-Dos & A Framework of Questions

This is a moment of great anxiety, and in my work with small and mid-sized nonprofits and social enterprises, everyone is on edge.

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Sterling Network NYC Unveils New Impact Report

About two years ago, the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation launched the Sterling Network NYC as an exploration into the power of networks to catalyze system-level change around economic mobility at the intersection of racial equity.

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The Year That Was, and the Year That Will Be

Over the last two years the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation has launched a network, grown our grantmaking, joined several national funding collaboratives, been a founding member of the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project, created an evaluation system, redecorated our office, brought on new board members, updated our website and started a blog.

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Network Leadership: Launching Sterling Network NYC

About a year and a half ago the Foundation began a journey to explore the answer to an intriguing question: What happens when you bring together a group of action-oriented systems leaders from multiple sectors, each of whom has an ability to influence and move resources, build their trust and capacity to work across difference, and provide space and support for them to think of powerful ways to collaborate to improve economic mobility at the intersection of racial equity?

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