As Fund for Shared Insight winds down its final phase, the work to advance listening and shift power to community is continuing in new ways.
Stay connected at Listen to Community, a growing resource and engagement hub for funders co-created by Shared Insight and six leading philanthropy infrastructure organizations.
At Listen to Community’s Listening in Practice, you’ll find practical tools, real-world examples, events, and peer connection opportunities to help turn your own commitment to listening into action.
Insights for Change will continue through June, and our content library will remain available for at least three years. For regular content updates on funder listening to shift power, we hope you will subscribe to Listening in Practice.
Funders, join us! Together, we can shift philanthropy for good.
What Listen to Community Ambassadors are saying about the initiative:
“Listening to community is logical to me; why wouldn’t people want to do things this way? We try to listen in our everyday work, guided by a clear set of principles, being in right relationship with folks, learning from others’ experiences, and sharing what we are learning in return. It matters to feel that we’re not unusual in the field and that this approach is validated by peers. That’s why I’m excited about this initiative, and curious, too, about how much change we can help make happen.”
The philanthropy we need in this moment of polycrisis is a philanthropy that shifts power to those who have been shut out of it, and listening to community is a key part of how funders can shift power. I am excited to help normalize a practice, listening to community, that holds transformational potential for the field and funders alike.
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