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Listening at the heart of our work.

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.
Funder Tools
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Tools to help funders listen to the people and communities most impacted by their decisions.

Funder Listening Action Menu

Support grantees to listen well
Listen to inform grantmaking and strategy development
Listen to inform measurement, learning, and evaluation
Listen to inform your work more broadly
Listen through participatory practices
Listen by changing the composition of staffs and boards

Participatory Philanthropy Toolkit

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

Funder Collaborative Toolkit

Introduction
Step 1: Identify Underrepresented Groups in Your Collaborative
Step 2: Review and Consider the Menu of Approaches
Step 3: Create a Plan to Make Your Collaborative More Inclusive
Insights for Change
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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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At Missouri Foundation for Health, Community Liaisons Listen and Build Connections

Fund for Shared Insight

September 18, 2024

Viewpoint

A New Day for Listening: Funders Co-Learning From Nonprofits’ Community Feedback

Valerie Threlfall

Listen4Good

September 18, 2024

Viewpoint

Grantmaking as Bumper Bowling: A Community Foundation’s Journey towards Shifting and Sharing Power

Anne Meysenburg and Dasia Horne

Omaha Community Foundation

September 17, 2024

ISER Caribe

We do innovative research on ecological restoration of coral reefs, potable water research, & climate change science.

https://isercaribe.org/

Funder Listening

Listening and Equity

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Funder Listening Action Menu

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Funder Collaborative Toolkit

Insights for Change

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Funder Listening
- Listening and Equity
- Lift Up Listening
Funder Tools
Insights for Change
- Viewpoints
- Research
- Case Studies
- Evaluations
- News
- Videos

Funder Listening
- Listening and Equity
- Lift Up Listening
Funder Tools
Insights for Change
- Viewpoints
- Research
- Case Studies
- Evaluations
- News
- Videos