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Listening and Equity

High-quality listening must be in service of – and rooted in a commitment to – equity. Check out our Equity Principles and other resources to help you understand that critical connection.

Lift Up Listening

Have you seen funder listening in action? Share your stories to demonstrate what’s possible when grantmakers center the people and communities most impacted by their decisions.
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Try out these resources and others featured on our tools page to start or enhance your foundation’s listening practices.

Funder Listening Action Menu

Find examples, resources, and reflections about listening to shift power.
Listen through your role or function
Listen through various approaches
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Participatory Philanthropy Toolkit

Introducing the Toolkit
Funder Readiness Assessment
Key Insights and Recommendations
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How We Did It: Shared Insight’s Participatory Climate Initiative
Participatory Philanthropy: Discussions and Hot Topics

Community Listening Sessions: A Guide for Funders

Learn how to host listening sessions that encourage meaningful community engagement and empower those most affected — yet often least consulted — to influence your foundation’s work.

Funder Listening Assessment

Take a thoughtful look at how your foundation listens to, learns with, and shares power with the people and communities most impacted by its work.
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News, updates, case studies, and opinion pieces highlighting how philanthropy and nonprofits advance impact and equity by listening to the people at the heart of their work.

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Philanthropy and Community Empowerment: A Talk with Hanh Le

Fund for Shared Insight

November 10, 2025

Case Study, Podcast

Shifting Power in Family Philanthropy: The Kolibri Foundation Story

Fund for Shared Insight

November 10, 2025

Case Study

A Family Foundation’s Transformation from ‘Foundation-Centric’ to ‘Community-Centric’

Fund for Shared Insight

October 23, 2025

Girls Leading Girls

Nominated by Bravo Foundation
Girls Leading Girls trains young women in leadership and life skills through soccer.

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Funder Listening Assessment

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Funder Listening
- Listening and Equity
Funder Tools
Insights for Change

Funder Listening
- Listening and Equity
Funder Tools
Insights for Change

A new initiative to engage funders in listening practices that shift power to impacted communities.

A new initiative to support funder listening.