Kimberly Sterling founded her new company in 2024 after signing off at Sterling, the consulting firm that she founded and led for 35 years. During that time, she grew her staff and added services over time to keep pace with a rapidly expanding and growingly sophisticated nonprofit sector.

In starting Sterling for Good, she was excited to roll up her sleeves personally with every client again, approaching each new challenge with a full toolbox of skills and knowledge gained over decades of work with nonprofits of every description.

Kim has deep experience in capital and endowment campaign planning and management, strategic planning, program development, board development, data management, research, communications, and coaching both boards and staff. She can now draw on all those areas of expertise to develop strategic solutions to a wide range of nonprofit challenges, working at a strategic level with leadership.

In addition to her professional responsibilities, Kim has served on a variety of nonprofit boards of directors, including the NPR Foundation Board and Houston Public Media, AIDS Foundation Houston, Transom Story Lab, and several independent schools. In 2004, Kim was named the Fundraising Professional of the Year by the Houston chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, which honored her again in 2019 with the Byron Welch Award for Lifetime Achievement in Fundraising, and she is a frequent speaker at nonprofit conferences and training programs.

Kim received her bachelor’s degree from Williams College and a master’s in public policy from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas. Her husband, David, is a senior partner with the law firm Baker Botts, and they have three happily married children.