Fund for Shared Insight concluded in 2026 after 12 years.

This site is an archive.

If you’re interested in funder listening practices that shift power to impacted communities, visit Listen to Community, an initiative co-launched by Shared Insight to continue that work.

Listen4Good Case Study: Students Rising Above

Watch how Fund for Shared Insight’s Listen4Good feedback initiative improved programs and sparked a listening and “survey culture” at a San Francisco nonprofit that helps first-generation college students get to and through college and into thriving careers.

Produced by The James Irvine Foundation, a Fund for Shared Insight core funder.

Video by Edward Valibus.

 

 

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