By supporting the independent, non-biased research and writing of SHERPA Press, you are funding a myriad of expenses that go into every report, book, or article. These include, but are not limited to:

• ◆ Subscriptions to digital platforms, software and journals
• ◆ Printing of review hardcopies
• ◆ Virtual collaboration platform costs
• ◆ Plagiarism checking tools
• ◆ Copy editing and other staff
• ◆ Contributor royalty advances and intern stipends
• ◆ Professional citation/fact-checking verification
• ◆ Freelance research support for contributors
• ◆ Cover design and layout/typesetting
• ◆ Audiobook/multimedia production
• ◆ Book launch investments, including author travel to present and promote

This is a partial peek at the cost of keeping our research and writing independent and unbiased. Any amount makes a difference.

We do offer SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES for MAJOR DONORS, but these do not influence our final published work. Please contact us for the levels of sponsorship for SHERPA Press. These are for a term of an entire 18 months of production, with your name listed under Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze levels, for all work produced during that period.

About Our Work at SHERPA Press - a division of SHERPA Institute

We collaborate with audacious contributors. And we also rely on contributions from generous supporters, to keep our writing unbiased and based on the latest research. Completing a cutting-edge book, from the very first literature review, ongoing research, synthesizing the data, and writing a useful guide takes a diverse array of human, digital and other vital resources, as well as a significant amount of time.

We provide a breakthrough, multimedia platform for brave truth-tellers to break through noise, with a publisher committed to ethical, generous, and ambitious partnerships.

Our contributors deliver substance and meaning in an age of an increasingly expanding artificial echo chamber.  The Matrix movie concept is no longer science fiction.  Presenting the same revisionism repeatedly, transforming lies into assumed reality, is now the norm.  We need to look back at past mistakes and evaluate our current position. Then, we take a hard look into the horizon, with long-range binoculars, to see what’s coming. As the legendary hockey player, Wayne Gretsky explained his success, “I skate to where the puck is heading.” Our contributors rip the veneer off broken systems, then provide real-world, “skate where your puck is heading” guidance. A great example is in SHERPA’s evolving thought-leading research and writing corporate guidance for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) to the realization that the UN SDG framework is not corporate-oriented, nor are they created for completion by 2030. After SHERPA had already arrived at this conclusion, and pivoted to focusing on specific targets and topics, the UN itself has agreed that the 2030 Goals will fall short.

CONTRIBUTOR PARTNERSHIPS – RESEARCHERS, WRITERS AND REVIEWERS

When it comes to our collaborative relationships, we frankly give a puck.  

We deliver exceptional royalties, defying industry “norms” and provide production support to writers and other content creators.  This support includes researchers, copy editors, and more.  As a forewarning, we do expect accurate citations down to the original source, have zero tolerance for plagiarism, and do not accept AI-generated content.

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- Dolly Parton

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EXAMPLES OF TOPICS IN PROGRESS (these are not final titles):

• ◆ Sustainable Tourism: Including Real-World Case Studies
• ◆ How to Create Quality Education Programs: A Guidebook for All Ages of Learners
• ◆ Culture Change: Stakeholder Strategies for Innovation and a Competitive Advantage
• ◆ Uncovering Biases that Prevent Good Works
• ◆ Food Security: Waste, Loss & Equitable Distribution
• ◆ Resolving Labor Crises in Your Supply Chain: Ending Child & Forced Labor in Modern Times
• ◆ AI Ethics: Alarming statistics and predictions about the potentially destructive evolution of AI; and how private entities, governments, and NGOs are leveraging the technology.
• ◆ Beyond 2030: Achieving the UN SDGs and underlying Targets.  Reworking how Goals and Targets are organized (example – Sustainable Tourism is in two separate Goals) to clearly speak to corporations.
• ◆ Beyond 2030: The International Standard for Social Responsibility – ISO 26000 versus UN SDGs