When your foundation is ready to deepen its listening practices and more fully engage with the people and communities most impacted by your work, the first step is understanding where you stand today. Fund for Shared Insight’s new Funder Listening Assessment offers a practical, low-lift way to take stock of your organization’s values, practices, and alignment around listening, learning, and shifting power.
The tool walks you through a series of questions that explore how listening shows up across your organization — from the motivations that drive it, to how it’s resourced and practiced, to what happens in response. Each question includes examples of what listening might look like at beginning, developing, or embedded levels. You’ll mark where your organization falls, helping create a shared picture of where you are now and where you might want to go next. Whether you complete it on your own or with colleagues, the assessment is designed to spark learning, surface insights, and set the stage for meaningful change.
The Funder Listening Assessment is part of a growing set of tools and resources to help funders advance their listening journeys.
Take a thoughtful look at how your organization listens to, learns with, and shares power with the people and communities most impacted by its work.
Have questions about the assessment? Or want to learn more?
Please reach out to our program manager Katy Love.
