Insights for Change

A blog featuring 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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An Update for Our Participatory Philanthropy Toolkit
Participatory Philanthropy Toolkit graphic
What Does It Mean for Funders to Listen Well?
  • via The Center for Effective Philanthropy
What Does It Mean for Funders to Listen Well?
Shared Insight’s Feedback Research Grantees: Where Are They Now?
  • Fund for Shared Insight
Shared Insight’s Feedback Research Grantees: Where Are They Now?
Learning from Feedback Research Grantees: Beyond Research Findings, The Value-Add of Perceptual Feedback
ORS Report: Learning from Feedback Research Grantees: Beyond Research Findings
Brooklyn Org Listens Neighborhood to Neighborhood
Brooklyn Org Listens Neighborhood to Neighborhood Video
Representing Brooklyn from the Ground Up
  • Brooklyn Org
Dr. Jocelynne Rainey (lower left), president and CEO of Brooklyn Org, participates in a Listening Tour session in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
A New Tool for Advancing Participation in Philanthropy
Advancing Participation in Philanthropy Tool (APPT)
Updating Shared Insight’s Funder Listening Action Menu
  • Fund for Shared Insight
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Listen, Learn, Act: One Funder’s Lessons from a Participatory Strategy Process
  • ACT for Alexandria
A strategy planning meeting at ACT for Alexandria.
Funders Out in the Community: ‘My Whole Job Is Talking and Listening’
Chris Lassiter, director of community engagement at the Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge, and Rick Bady, case manager at Valley Mission, in Staunton, VA, which provides services to people experiencing homelessness. Photo credit: Kate Simon
Doing ‘Development Differently’ and Other Ideas on Localization from Dr. Moses Isooba
Dr. Moses Isooba is Executive Director of the Uganda National NGO Forum (UNNGOF)
Listening Well Through Locally-Led Development
  • Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
Women Collective Kenya hosts “jam sessions” for local activists to connect, explore, and collaborate. Photo courtesy of CIVICUS
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