Resources

Featured Publications

 

STERLING NETWORK NYC: 

A Bold Experiment in Relationships, Power & Imagining Leadership Otherwise 

Written by Judy Pryor-Ramirez, Independent Research Consultant on behalf of the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation


BRILLIANT TRANSFORMATION:

Toward Full Flourishing in BIPOC Leadership Transitions

Written by Michelle Flores and Elena Conte, Independent Consultants under the advisement of Bianca Anderson of ProInspire, AiLun Ku of BIPOC Leaders Network, and Ericka Stallings of Leadership Learning Community on behalf of the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation.


Other Publications

 

MAKING (OR TAKING)SPACE

Initial Themes on Nonprofit Transitions from White to BIPOC Leaders

Written by the Building Movement Project on behalf of the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation.


CONSTELLATIONS NOT STARS:

The Sterling Network Impact Report: Key Findings 2020

Written by Brooke Richie-Babbage, former Director of Network Initiatives on behalf of the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation.


February Resources

 

Leadership Development:

 

Our grantee partner and collaborators at Building Movement Project just published the third edition of their seminal Race to Lead Report: The Push and Pull: Declining Interest in NonProfit Leadership.


Field leaders and allies at Equity in the Center offer this suite of Resources you may find of interest. 


Organizational Management: 

The folks at Vision Change Win are offering a new training on Digital Security in their Get In Formation Training (GIFT) series on February 28, Digital Security.


One of our favorite doers and thinkers, Ananda Valenzuela (formerly co-ED of grant partner RVC), has written a piece on Distributed Leadership During a Time of Transition, for the Whidbey Institute.


Ananda also offers a webinar on A New Framework) for BoardsNPQ.


Philanthropy: 

Lisa and two of our collaborators, Dr. Jocelyn Rainey and Cynthia Gibson, just published this rebuttal to the critique of trust based philanthropy and participatory grantmaking

Philanthropy Needs to Trust the Real Experts – the People it Supports (article), NonProfit Quarterly.


The talented staff of the Memphis Music Initiative created this video which may resonate  with your experiences with funders (literally and figuratively!): I hope like hell we get this grant.


The North Star Fund has a terrific weekly email with news from their community, grant opportunities, and job listings. If you don't already get it, you might want to sign up here.