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Listen4Good: Evaluation Design

Listen4Good Evaluation Design

In January 2016, Fund for Shared Insight launched Listen4Good (L4G), an initiative to support a greater number and diversity of “customer-facing” nonprofits to systematically collect and use feedback from the people they seek to help. Shared Insight asked its evaluation partner, ORS Impact, to design and implement an evaluation of this initiative covering the life of all 46 grants with the final cohort ending July 2018. The following is the L4G evaluation design.

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