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Theory of Change: Progress to Date

Fund for Shared Insight Theory of Change: Progress to Date

In July 2014, Fund for Shared Insight launched with a theory of change for how collective funding to support feedback practice, feedback research, and foundation listening and sharing could ultimately improve philanthropy. This memo discusses how Shared Insight’s work has evolved since its initial grantmaking and assesses progress in each focus area to provide an update, as of February 2017, on how Shared Insight is doing against its theory of change.

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